A Minnehaha County judge declined to order a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that would have reinstated the Argus Leader as the legal newspaper for the City of Sioux Falls.
The Sioux Falls City Council voted on June 5 to name the Dakota Scout, an outlet founded by two former Argus Leader reporters in August 2022, as the city's official newspaper for legal notices over the Argus Leader, citing cost savings as well as local ownership.
But the Argus Leader and parent company Gannett argued that the Dakota Scout had not filed required paperwork with the state to serve as a legal newspaper, citing state law that says: "In order to maintain legal newspaper status, the newspaper must submit to the secretary of state before January first of each year a sworn statement of ownership and total print and online circulation for the previous calendar year."
