As recent numbers show, South Dakota’s economy is slowing down in line with the rest of the region. At the Heartland Energy Summer Conference in Madison, economists and businessmen spoke about how the numbers in South Dakota actually look better than they really are.

Watertown almost lost one of its largest child care centers last year. Instead, the city recently celebrated its newest child care center on the same campus hosting assisted living apartments and memory care facilities.

Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken said the city is planning to reduce $8-10 million of funding in the city’s budget. He said the root cause is a property tax relief bill the state Legislature passed this year.

A new CNBC study ranks South Dakota in the lower half of the country overall for business in 2025. Some state leaders aren’t taking the rank as a negative, but as a goal to move forward.

A Wyoming businessman said he is pausing an offer to purchase the social media app Tik Tok.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says mass deportations of undocumented immigrants will be done everywhere, including farm country. She says the plan is to have a 100% American workforce. However, those in the ag industry question what this would look like in practice.

This year marks 50 years of Feeding South Dakota and the organization’s work in the state. While the organization is celebrating the past, leaders say they’re focusing on helping South Dakota in the present and future.

The closure of Presentation College in Aberdeen left holes in the community, literal and metaphorical. Now, the first steps are being taken to reclaim the space the college once stood on.

The company looking to develop a new gold mine in the northern Black Hills says a new assessment suggests the projects has a promising future.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is planning to “Build America” through broadband access across the United States.