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Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, left, faces independent Brian Bengs in the Nov. 3 election. (Rounds photo by South Dakota Searchlight; Bengs photo courtesy of South Dakota Public Broadcasting; illustration by Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)
By Joshua Haiar
Money is pouring into South Dakota’s U.S. Senate race as people and groups across the country sense a rare chance to support a potentially competitive challenger against a Republican incumbent.
Both candidates have raised a majority of their campaign contributions from outside the state and have spent a combined $6.1 million, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan, nonprofit money-in-politics website OpenSecrets.
By John Hult
Creating eight to 14 ambulance service regions might help preserve sustainable access to emergency medical care in South Dakota, according to lawmakers on a legislative study group.
The group’s members cautioned, however, that it will take years to hash out where those regions might be, how large they’d be, and how much the state would pitch in to keep them viable.
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Voters mark their primary election ballots at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, on March 3, 2026. This year’s statewide ballot measures are written, on average, at a graduate-school reading level, according to a new report. (Photo by John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate)
By Anna Claire Vollers/Stateline
This year’s statewide ballot measures are written, on average, at a graduate-school reading level, according to a new report.
The readability of 2026’s ballot questions — which ask voters to weigh in on issues as varied as abortion, property taxes, voter ID and firearms — varies by state, political data tracking nonprofit Ballotpedia found in its newest Ballot Measure Readability Report.
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