The city of Sioux Falls teams up with South Dakota State University to further find ways to help improve the Big Sioux River.

Each week, experts check several variables including precipitation, temperatures, soil moisture, snow cover, and water levels ...

Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, ...

Farmers are slowly drying up the nation’s largest underground source of fresh water. Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly ...

Irrigation brought fat harvests to the plains. But the water is disappearing. Industrial agriculture on the Great Plains began in the 1950s when mechanized pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems ...

Multiple wildfires were actively burning Thursday in North and South Carolina, where a blaze that erupted over the weekend forced evacuations and a state of emergency. The largest of them, in the ...

Sydney Hansen, 24, was a National Park Service employee at Jewel Cave National Monument in western South Dakota with a positive job performance record until she was terminated as part of federal ...

Sen. Mark Lapka, R-Leola, speaks on the South Dakota Senate floor on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.

Dozens of wildfires in North and South Carolina prompted the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes Sunday as the area was plagued with dry conditions and gusty winds. In South ...