May 29, 2020

STURGIS, S.D. – Don’t forget, this coming Tuesday is primary election day in South Dakota. Along with races for State Senate and House and legislature, there is a school board race for Meade 46-1. Twelve candidates are running for three spots for the board. They are Darrell M. Vig, Mud Butte, prior board member Robert […]

PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Health reports 77 new COVID-19 cases and the Black Hills area accounted for 20 of them. Pennington County reported 15 new cases today, Meade County added three and for the first time in over a month, Lawrence County reported two new COVID-19 cases today. Pennington County now […]

BILLINGS, MT –  A U.S. appeals court on Thursday turned down a request by the Trump administration and energy industry groups to revive a permit program for new oil and gas pipelines that had been canceled by a lower court. The case originated with a challenge to the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to […]

SIOUX FALLS, SD – South Dakota is going forward with plans to test using a controversial anti-malaria drug in small doses to prevent COVID-19, Gov. Kristi Noem announced Thursday. The drug hydroxychloroquine has attracted controversy after President Donald Trump promoted it as an antidote to COVID-19, but was shown in studies not to help, and […]