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U.S. Postal Service trucks parked in a line. (Photo by Stefania Pelfini la Waziya/Getty Images)
By Seth Tupper
The U.S. Postal Service announced plans Tuesday to improve delivery speed in South Dakota, following years of complaints about service in the state.
Beginning Jan. 1, a Sioux Falls processing and distribution center will become a regional center thanks to new machinery. The plant will handle more of the mail leaving and arriving in South Dakota without the need for processing out of state.
By Joshua Haiar
South Dakota regulators are considering permit applications for projects that would add about 160 miles of electrical transmission lines along the eastern edge of the state.
Transmission lines carry high-voltage power over long distances.
By John Hult
Regionalizing ambulance services would preserve them for rural areas and allow the state to guarantee a basic level of coverage, but the state would still need to pick up some of the cost of that guarantee, members of a legislative task force said this week.
What regional service looks like and what the state might have to pay to prop it up are still open questions.
FROM STATES NEWSROOM
Grizzly bears in the lower 48 states are federally protected as a threatened species. A new memo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik says that endangered animals may be killed as long as the action was not “intentionally directed at a particular animal or animals.” (Photo courtesy of Terry Tollefsbol/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
By Alex Brown/Stateline
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public.
Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities, it said — so long as the activity’s purpose isn’t killing species.
D.C. NEWS
Medical groups, patients sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements | Nada Hassanein/Stateline
Trump DOJ uses case of Utah letter carrier to highlight allegations of voting fraud | Jacob Fischler
NATIONAL NEWS
Appeals court backs Missouri’s gerrymandered map, but decision is put on hold | Missouri Independent
Appeals court hears arguments over Arkansas’ Ten Commandments in classrooms mandate | Arkansas Advocate
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