South Dakota Searchlight’s images of 2024

Jan 01, 2025 | 11:01 am ET

By South Dakota Searchlight Staff

South Dakota Searchlight’s images of 2024

Clockwise from left: Gov. Kristi Noem (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images); a B-1 bomber crash at Ellsworth Air Force Base (Courtesy of U.S. Air Force); a June 24 view of a home destroyed by flooding the previous night at McCook Lake (Courtesy of Dirk Lohry); U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images); U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight); people associated with the Life Defense Fund protest outside a Sioux Falls library on May 1. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

As a new year begins, here’s a look back at some of the best and most newsworthy images published by South Dakota Searchlight in 2024.

Click an image in the gallery below to view a slideshow with captions.

The B-1 bomber crash site at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City on Jan. 4, 2024. (Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force)

Carbon dioxide pipeline critic and farmer Mark Lapka, of Leola, speaks during a rally at the South Dakota Capitol in Pierre on Jan. 8, 2024. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

Jason Ravnsborg, former attorney general of South Dakota, speaks during a hearing about the future of his law license on Feb. 14, 2024, at the Capitol in Pierre while his legal team looks on. (David Bordewyk/SD NewsMedia Association)

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump greets South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. The rally was hosted by the Buckeye Values PAC. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

People associated with the Life Defense Fund protest outside a Sioux Falls library on May 1, 2024, as an abortion-rights group conducts a press conference inside. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

A June 24, 2024, view of a home destroyed by flooding the previous night at McCook Lake in southeast South Dakota. (Courtesy of Dirk Lohry)

Morgan Speichinger works to clean up her home near McCook Lake on July 3, 2024, after a June 23 flood. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

Damages remain visible in the McCook Lake community on July 3, 2024, after a massive flood hit the area on June 23. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

Cheyenne River Chairman Ryan LeBeau (center) takes a picture with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (left) and U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (right) after a roundtable on public safety on tribal lands in Wagner on Aug. 14, 2024. (Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight)

A ceremony on Aug. 15, 2024, marks the completed excavation of caverns for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, at the Sanford Underground Research Facility within the former Homestake Mine in Lead. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

An airplane drops fire retardant chemicals near the First Thunder Fire just west of Rapid City on Sept. 3, 2024. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)

Jim Carlson, with the Minnehaha County Historical Society, repaints a historical marker at Falls Park in Sioux Falls on Sept. 23, 2024. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)

John Cooper carries decoys to his vehicle after a day of duck hunting near Eureka on Sept. 28, 2024. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

Former U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson's urn is displayed during his funeral at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls on Oct. 18, 2024. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)

Demonstrators participate in a march for abortion rights on Nov. 2, 2024, in downtown Sioux Falls. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)

A Sioux Falls resident votes in the 2024 general election on Nov. 5, 2024 at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)

A vehicle bearing the message "vote no on everything" is parked outside a polling place on Nov. 5, 2024, in Rapid City, near a sign marking a "no campaigning" perimeter. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)

U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, delivers his reelection victory speech while flanked by sons Owen, left, and Max on Nov. 5, 2024, in Sioux Falls. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Homeland Security secretary, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, arrives at the Hart Senate Office Building to meet with senators on Dec. 12, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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