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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has offered her opinion that the Legislature could easily convene to consider impeaching the state’s attorney general for his role in a fatal car crash. But her opinion puts her at odds with the Republican lawmaker overseeing the proceedings. The procedural conflict touches on rules in […]
UNDATED – Here is your Thursday Night, March 4, South Dakota Prep Basketball Scoreboard: GIRLS BASKETBALL= State Qualifier= Class A= SoDak 16= Aberdeen Roncalli 50, Redfield 15 Belle Fourche 50, Parkston 46 Dakota Valley 68, Tea Area 59 Hamlin 62, Mobridge-Pollock 22 McCook Central/Montrose 41, Hill City 39 Sioux Falls Christian 52, Flandreau 50, OT […]
PIERRE, SD – The full Senate will get a chance to debate the proposed merger of the South Dakota Ag Department with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The Senate Ag & Natural Resources Committee (Thursday morning) debated a Senate Resolution of Disapproval to the merger proposed by Governor Kristi Noem. Senator Troy Heinert […]
PIERRE, SD – The South Dakota State Railroad Board has signed off on the sale of the Mitchell to Rapid City (MRC) line to Ringneck and Western Railroad for $13 million. The purchase price will be paid to the department, with $5 million paid at closing and the remaining balance paid in equal installments of […]
PIERRE, S.D. – Active cases of COVID-19 are back up over 2,000 Thursday and three new deaths have been reported as well. In their Thursday update, health officials reported 232 new cases of COVID-19, with 94 of them listed as probable. Active cases rose by 63 today to 2,056. The number of people hospitalized due […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – On Thursday, Girl Scouts-Dakota Horizons congratulated Bethany Schaefer of Sturgis, SD for earning the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award to be achieved in Girl Scouts. Bethany earned her Gold Award with her Epilepsy Awareness Project which resulted in the creation of informational videos posted to YouTube. She invested 41 […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An Iowa company is leading a $2 billion effort to capture carbon dioxide from Midwestern ethanol plants (including South Dakota) and pipe it to North Dakota where it would be buried deep underground. The greenhouse gas is generated during the fermentation process and contributes to climate change when it’s released into […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Republican and Democratic legislative leaders were finalizing a resolution this week to expel a North Dakota House member accused of threatening and sexually harassing women at the state Capitol. House Majority Leader Chet Pollert told The Associated Press that the resolution to expel GOP Rep. Luke Simons will be introduced on […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Meatpacking workers across the country have started receiving coronavirus vaccines and thousands more will have a chance to get their shots this week, offering some peace of mind in an industry that was ravaged by COVID-19 a year ago. “There’s a level of relief to know they are finally getting the […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and U.S. Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) today expressed their concern with the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS’s) recommendation to reduce the timber sale program in the Black Hills National Forest (BHNF). The members are also seeking […]
Sharon was born on April 17, 1948, in Sturgis, South Dakota, as the oldest child of Hazel and […]
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