March 18, 2020

UNDATED – COVID-19, or the Coronavirus, is challenging everyday life across the state — including the ability to feed the hungry in South Dakota. Feeding South Dakota is continuing to fight the hunger needs in the state, despite eleven reported cases to this point of the virus. Organization CEO Matt Gassen said Feeding South Dakota […]

UNDATED – In response to COVID-19, South Dakota’s four technical colleges will move to an online learning model. Beginning on Monday, March 23, all classes will be moved online. On-campus, in-person classes are scheduled to resume on Monday, March 30. All four campuses will continue to be closed to the general public until Monday, March […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Tests led by U.S. government scientists show that the new coronavirus can live in the air for several hours and on some surfaces for up to three days. Their work, published last week,  doesn’t prove that anyone has been infected through breathing it from the air or by touching contaminated surfaces. Experts […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A 29-year-old Florida man has pleaded not guilty to a federal drug charge after authorities say he was travelling with 78 pounds of meth on a Montana highway. Authorities say it was the largest amount of meth ever seized in a traffic stop in the state. Nicholas James Imhoff was returned […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota health officials have confirmed two more cases of the coronavirus, six days after the state’s first positive test of COVID-19. Officials said Tuesday the new cases involve a woman in her 20s from Cass County and a man in his 60s from Ward County. Authorities say the woman has […]