Melissa Avelino is a data journalism student at Augustana University. In this five-part series, she looks at the changing face of South Dakota using U.S. Census Data. South Dakota’s rural areas have ...

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De SMET, S.D. – A rural South Dakota county known mainly as the former home of beloved author Laura Ingalls Wilder is on the precipice of rapid growth as two record-setting agricultural ...

Why some South Dakotans leave rural areas and also why they return or choose to move there for the first time.