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NEMO, S.D. – The highway patrol says one person is dead after a motorcycle crash near Nemo. The name of the one person involved is not yet being released pending notification of family members. Preliminary information indicates that a 1996 Honda VT 600 motorcycle was eastbound on Nemo road near the intersection at Pine Road […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Severe thunderstorms brought heavy wind and large hail to parts of western South Dakota Thursday. A thunderstorm that developed over the western South Dakota plains dropped golf ball sized hail in the Newell area before heading southeast, and pummeling the New Underwood area. The storm crossed over I-90, and large hail […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two Native American people are joining a lawsuit against South Dakota alleging that state agencies failed to offer voter registration services. The two tribal members, along with the Lakota People’s Law Project, are asking a federal district judge to allow them to join the lawsuit that alleges state agencies are […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court says a student who uttered the word “bomb” and said he wanted to kill someone while holding a pair of scissors wasn’t making terrorist threats and shouldn’t have been found delinquent. KELO-TV reports that court issued an unanimous opinion Wednesday reversing Circuit Judge Kent Shelton’s ruling […]
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Media mogul and billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner is donating an 80,000-acre ranch he owns in western Nebraska to a nonprofit agriculture ecosystem research institute and says he might do the same with four other ranches in Nebraska’s Sand Hills. But he says he’ll continue to pay taxes on the land. […]
PIERRE, SD – Commercial hemp has been planted this year in the state. South Dakota Industrial Hemp Association Executive Director Katie Sieverding says they’re off to a great start with most of the hemp being planted of grain and fiber varieties. “Right around 20 farmers who have planted a crop,” says Sieverding. “The majority of […]
SIOUX FALLS, SD – South Dakotans battling addiction to opioids are increasingly relying on medication-assisted treatments to overcome their cravings for the dangerous drugs and to avoid potentially deadly overdoses. However, access to the life-saving medications is limited in South Dakota and some physicians in the state are reluctant to prescribe the drugs that have […]
PIERRE, S.D. — The fatal shooting of a suburban Rapid City man by Pennington County sheriff’s deputies has been deemed to be a justified use of deadly force. The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation on Thursday released a summary of its investigation into the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Ty Stilwell in Rapid Valley on […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Attorney General’s Office says law enforcement should honor tribal-issued medical marijuana identification cards held by non-tribal members off the reservation, a view not shared by Gov. Kristi Noem’s administration and the state Highway Patrol. Last week, Noem’s administration guided law enforcement officers not to honor Native American tribes’ […]
ABERDEEN, S.D. – The Rapid City Post 320 Stars picked up a hard fought 11-9 win over the Aberdeen Smitty’s Wednesday night. Post 320 took an 11-6 lead into the sixth inning, and the Smitty’s attempted a comeback, scoring two runs and adding another in the seventh. The Stars, though, held on for the victory. […]
Mitch Faulkner died April 29, 2024 at home in Spearfish due to complications from his battle with leukemia. […]
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