November 27, 2020

RAPID CITY, S.D. – Authorities have identified a 19-year-old man as the victim of a November 24th shooting that occurred south of Rapid City on Highway 16. The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office said Ocean Sun Eberlein died from a gunshot wound. The shooting was reported at 10:37 p.m. Tuesday. Jason Ray Sharp, 43, was arrested […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The Rapid City Area School system says all schools will return to in the classroom learning after the Thanksgiving break. The district has been in a remote learning phase for two weeks due to an increase in COVID-19 cases leading to staff shortages. The R.C.A.S. COVID-19 Response Team says the number […]

PIERRE, S.D, – The Department of Health released two days worth of COVID-19 numbers Friday after not releasing a daily report on Thanksgivng. The two day total for new cases was 2,138 with 212 of those considered probable. The two day death total reached 39, sending the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 888. Twenty of […]

PIERRE, SD – The next round of economic stimulus is not the only important piece of federal spending hung up in Washington. South Dakota interim Transportation Department Secretary Joel Jundt told the Transportation Commission this week that they are waiting on the states federal highway funding. “Congress did pass a continuing resolution to at least […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The group that campaigned to legalize recreational marijuana in South Dakota through a voter-backed constitutional amendment has filed in court to defend the amendment in a legal challenge brought by two law enforcement officers. South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws organized a successful effort to pass a constitutional amendment legalizing […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota attorney general’s office says Sanford Health must pay more than $329,000 to settle allegations of improper billing to the South Dakota Medicaid plan. The Argus Leader reports the penalty resulted from billing that was done on behalf of former Sanford neurosurgeon Dr. Wilson Asfora. A federal lawsuit […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — One group of South Dakotans marked the Thanksgiving holiday by setting up a makeshift memorial near the state Capitol for those who have died from COVID-19. A group called Stop the Spread set up over 800 empty chairs on the Capitol grounds, representing each person who has died. The state has […]