April 18, 2020

PIERRE – South Dakotans who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits could receive extra help to purchase food, the Department of Social Services announced today.  “SNAP provides important nutritional assistance benefits to children and families, the elderly, the disabled, unemployed, as well as working families,” said DSS Secretary Laurie Gill. “SNAP helps supplement monthly budgets […]

WHITEWOOD, S.D. – The suspect who was shot by a Whitewood police officer last Friday has been identified as 40-year-old Jaris Roy Kroetch of Rapid City. The incident occurred at the Sonset gas station in Whitewood when police were called there for a report of an individual who was acting erratically. Whitewood Police Chief Paul […]

PIERRE, S.D. – An additional 131 positive cases of COVID-19 were reported on Saturday, and the Department of Health says of those cases, 119 of them were in Minnehaha County. The state’s cumulative total is now 1,542. South Dakota’s most populous county remains the hot spot in the state – particularly the Smithfield Food Plant, […]