Park Madness. What's the best park in Sioux Falls? The city parks and recreation department created a Park Madness ballot with a bracket of 64 parks competing for the grand title. You can weigh in and fill out your bracket here.
Vikings, two ways. The Augustana Vikings are partnering with the Minnesota Vikings to launch a new women's flag football league. Augie is one of six NCAA institutions that's part of this partnership, including Concordia, Gustavus, Bethel, University of Northwestern - St. Paul and University of Wisconsin, Stout. As part of the partnership, the Minnesota Vikings is contributing $140,000 to support the new league and its participating schools.
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No eminent domain for carbon pipelines. A bill to prohibit companies from using eminent domain to use land for carbon pipelines is headed to Gov. Larry Rhoden's desk. South Dakota Searchlight has the full story.
Maybe Medicaid? It'll be up to voters to decide if the state will continue to fund Medicaid expansion if federal funding for the program dips below a certain threshold. Voters voted to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults in 2022. Now, lawmakers are asking voters to weigh in again. Searchlight has more.
A win for dual credit classes. Lawmakers also voted to continue subsidizing college-level classes for high school students through the dual credit program, defeating a proposal that would've increased the tuition high schoolers have to pay for these classes. Searchlight has more.