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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has appointed a new interim cabinet secretary overseeing the state’s prison system, as well as named a warden for the State Penitentiary. The Republican governor says that the previous interim Secretary of Corrections Tim Reisch would step down next month. She named Reisch to the […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers will meet next month to hear from a former state employee at the center of questions over whether Gov. Kristi Noem interfered in a state agency that was evaluating her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license. The Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee has scheduled […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Rapid City fire crews say a mobile home was extensively damaged in an early morning fire on Wednesday. The fire on the 1500 block of East Saint Patrick Street was first spotted by the Rapid City Fire Department’s Medic 4 crew just before 6:30 a.m. They were on another call when […]
UNDATED – The selections for All State Football have been announced and the Sturgis Scoopes landed two on the All State team for Class 11AA. Konner Berndt of Sturgis ran for 1,209 years and scored 10 touchdowns to earn his spot on the squad. He was joined by teammate Reese Jacobs, who racked up over […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In general, cattle prices are higher now compared to last year and are expected to continue improving in 2022. Live and Feeder futures have priced in a lot of optimism for 2022. Still, there are plenty of challenges in the mix for cattle producers with continued drought, higher input prices, supply chain […]
PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Health reported 574 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday with 191 of those listed under the probable category. Active cases have again surpassed 7,000 with 7,080 being reported today. The number of people hospitalized dropped by six today to 231. Two new deaths were reported, sending the state’s […]
PIERRE, SD – Compared to other Great Plains states, South Dakota is off to a slow start in getting children ages 5-11 vaccinated against the coronavirus. With child vaccines available for nearly a month, so far only about one in 20 eligible South Dakota children aged 5-11 has received a dose of the vaccine against […]
HELENA, MT – Chronic Wasting Disease is a 100% fatal disease that infects members of the deer family, including elk, moose, mule, and white-tailed deer. CWD is not a virus, bacteria, or fungus. It is caused by infectious, misfolded proteins, called prions, that spread throughout the animal and result in organ damage and eventual death. […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Supreme Court strikes down voter-approved marijuana legalization on technical grounds. The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that nullified a voter-passed amendment to the state constitution that would have legalized recreational marijuana use. Gov. Kristi Noem instigated the legal fight to strike down the […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The Navigable Waters Protection Rule would be repealed and replaced with pre-2015 definitions of waters of the U.S. in a proposal released by EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last week. It is the first step in eventually replacing the Trump-era rule with a new rule sometime next year. Along […]
Mitch Faulkner died April 29, 2024 at home in Spearfish due to complications from his battle with leukemia. […]
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