December 24, 2019

WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D.  – The National Park Service is recruiting volunteers to help manage the Wind Cave National Park elk herd. Eight trained volunteers are needed, four each week for the first two weeks in February. Volunteers will be selected via a lottery system managed by South Dakota’s Game, Fish and Parks. The […]

WASHINGTON, DC – US officials are transferring 33 disease-free bison from Yellowstone National Park to an American Indian reservation in Montana as part of efforts to reduce the slaughter of bison that migrate from the park. The shipment included bison and descendants trapped by park administrators under an agreement with the state of Montana that’s intended […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – Two South Dakota companies have paid off all lunch debt in the Pierre School District. Karber Construction and American Trust Insurance have eliminated a negative balance of about $2,300 in students’ meal accounts. Mandy Karber says that as a small business, they were simply looking for a way to give back. […]

VEBLEN, S.D. – Two people died Monday morning in a one-vehicle crash near Veblen. Names of the two people involved are not being released pending notification of family. A 2004 Chevrolet Impala was westbound on 101st Street, which is a gravel road, when the driver lost control. The vehicle went into the ditch and hit […]