Lori Walsh

Our modern screen-filled lives may have impacts on our health in unexpected ways. A new book explores the implications.

Attorney General Marty Jackley says there are over 100 missing persons cases in South Dakota, and more than half involve Native individuals. Jackley talks about ways the state is trying to improve how these cases are investigated.

SDPB’s Dakota Political Junkies have watched the campaign ads — but they haven’t necessarily watched the same campaign ads. That’s the nature of today’s fractured media landscape.

In South Dakota, the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline Stroke initiative is now in its second year. The program aims to unite EMS, rural critical access hospitals, larger interventional facilities, and rehabilitation services into one seamless system for patients.

South Dakota author Scott Simpson lives in Spearfish Canyon and writes songs for strangers through an online business. People email him their stories; he sends music that helps express those stories in song.

A new mental health program is already showing promise through a pilot program at the biggest school district in South Dakota.

In the U.S., around 21,000 babies are stillborn each year. That means about one in 175 pregnancies end in stillbirth. Most women who experience that loss become pregnant again within 12 months.

The most recent Consumer Price Index shows prices have risen at their fastest pace since May 2023. The war in Iran, which began in February, is driving inflation and price pressures.

The South Dakota primary election season will continue with runoffs and recounts.

Voters are about to ask, who is the real Toby Doden? And are his plans for governing South Dakota, in a word, workable?