March 18, 2015

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Northern State University is on track to create a Chinese language and cultural center that will be the first of its kind in the Dakotas, a move officials hope will give students and the state a direct link to China’s growing economy. The South Dakota Board of Regents voted 7-0 Wednesday […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland is starting a South Dakota-based political organization dedicated to removing special interest influence in government. Weiland and retired Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson’s former chief of staff, Drey Samuelson, will formally announce an advocacy group and political action committee Thursday under the umbrella of TakeItBack.Org. […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The suspect in a weekend shooting in western South Dakota is now in custody after police fired beanbag rounds to subdue him. The Rapid City Police Department says the 69-year-old male suspect was arrested Wednesday after an altercation with police. Authorities suspect the Sturgis man fired the shot that seriously […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — More than 400 homeowners whose property lies along the Missouri River could end up paying a $50 surcharge on their flood insurance if county officials in southeast South Dakota do not meet a federal deadline. The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to put Union County on probationary status with the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Board of Regents has voted to allow Northern State University to create a Chinese language and cultural center that will be the first of its kind in the Dakotas and that officials hope will give the state a link to China’s growing economy. The Board voted 7-0 to […]

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Allie Thiesse was looking for a volunteer project she could really sink her teeth into. “I walked around (Yankton High School) dressed as a vampire to help create awareness and support for the blood drive being hosted at our school,” she told the Yankton Press and Dakotan ( ). “We wanted […]

SCENIC, S.D. (AP) — It began as a love story in Czechoslovakia in the early 1900s, he the son of landowners, she a neighbor of a different class, forbidden from marrying by the mores of the day. More than 110 years later, the prairie homestead east of Scenic established by Josef and Marie Kudrna and […]

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — Bison, it’s what’s for dinner. Although not exactly the popular slogan known across the nation, it might as well be for South Dakotans. South Dakota is becoming known as the state that consistently proves itself as a vital contributor to the economy in a big way: raising and producing bison. South […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — If you opt to drive state highways instead of the soulless stretch of Interstate 90 that runs through South Dakota, then you’ve seen the large white signs that offer the traveler a bit of history. The homemade historic markers share information in black letters burned into 1-by-12 or 2-by-12 boards: […]