The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require ...

The state funding is helping CJ Schwan’s with the construction of a $550 million food production plant in Sioux Falls that will have an estimated 600 employees.

U.S. Reps. Pat Ryan, a Democrat,  and Mike Lawler, a Republican, have demanded that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) “ensure that funding already appropriated ...

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