October 5, 2020

PIERRE, S.D. – There’s a sub plot developing behind the scenes of today’s special legislative session in Pierre: who will be in leadership in 2021. Key roles in the next legislative term are up for grabs this December when party caucuses elect leadership.  Those leaders then make committee assignments and determine who will chair each […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. – Rapid City police are investigating a two car accident that resulted in what appears to be minor injuries Monday. Police say a Chevrolet Camaro was traveling northbound on Fifth Street when it side swiped a pickup truck. The collision forced the camaro off the road and straight into an electrical pole. […]

STURGIS, S.D. – There was a lower amount of new COVID-19 cases Monday, but the state still set another record high for active cases. In its daily report, health officials reported 181 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest daily number in weeks. However, only 668 new tests were conducted for the latest 24 hour reporting period. […]

PIERRE, SD – South Dakota legislators are meeting is a special session today, some in Pierre and some remotely as they decide how to spend hundreds of millions of federal dollars provided by the CARES Act. Governor Kristi Noem addressed the joint session at the beginning, laying out the federal ground rules.  “I’ve spent countless […]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to take up an appeal from South Dakota’s only death row inmate, who was sentenced to death after he pleaded guilty to taking part in a torture killing 20 years ago. The court did not comment Monday in leaving in place the death sentence for Briley Piper, an […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The long-lost U.S. Army identification tag of a North Dakota soldier has been returned to his widow after it resurfaced in Russia. Gov. Doug Burgum gave Ronald Hepper’s military tag to his widow, Ruth Hepper of Bismarck, last week. According to Burgum’s office, Ronald Hepper had kept a set of his […]