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Lawmakers are weighing priorities and projects to fund in the later half of the current fiscal year. The largest budget item they’re considering is placing $250 million into a fund to pay down new men’s and women’s prisons near Sioux Falls and Rapid City. Officials want to pay that down with cash, to avoid bonding for the facility.
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Gov. Kristi Noem is deploying South Dakota National Guard troops to the southern border.
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The South Dakota Army National Guard now has its first female Native American sergeant major. The Guard promoted Elizabeth “Promise” Crawford in a ceremony at Camp Rapid.
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In this Dakota Life story from 1998, we meet Michael J. Fitzmaurice who served in the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam and received the Medal of Honor in 1973 for heroism.
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Eleven South Dakota Army National Guard Soldiers from across the state competed in the Best Warrior Competition at West Camp Rapid this month.
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The South Dakota National Guard Construction and Facilities Management Office earns the 2023 Secretary of the Army Environmental Award for Sustainability.
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Gov. Kristi Noem has made another visit to the southern border to inspect efforts to reduce border crossings.
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The South Dakota National Guard’s 109th Regional Support Group returns home from the Middle East after a nearly year-long deployment.
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In this 2006 Dakota Life clip, SDPB takes a tour and learns the history of the South Dakota National Guard and the museum in Pierre, South Dakota.
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The Monument Fine Arts theater in Rapid City played host to the communities second change of command ceremony in as many months – this time, for the state National Guard. The event brought some big names out to West River.