April 2015

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Jack White surprised Black Hills music fans Friday when he held a last-minute show in Rapid City. The acoustic show at the Performing Arts Center of Rapid City was the fourth of five the former White Stripes front man says he’s hosting in states where he hasn’t yet played before […]

FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — A Flandreau-based company that houses approximately one third of all the egg-laying chickens in the state is taking extra precautions as a deadly bird flu continues to spread to turkey and chicken farms throughout the Upper Midwest. Officials at Dakota Layers tell KELO-TV ( ) that they’re taking steps to keep […]

WESSINGTON SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — Wessington Springs is getting some tree planting advice from the South Dakota Department of Agriculture after many of the town’s trees were damaged by a tornado last summer.buy cytotec online https://www.adentalcare.com/wp-content/themes/medicare/fonts/engl/cytotec.html no prescription The department’s Resource Conservation and Forestry Division is using a $10,000 federal grant to fund replanting in […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. John Thune and former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre are among those who will pay tribute to Walter Conahan at his funeral Saturday in Sioux Falls. Conahan died April 18 at age 87 and was a senior staff member in the federal government for 25 years, the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — These South Dakota lotteries were drawn Friday:

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General is investigating circumstances surrounding the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe’s purchase of a New York-based brokerage firm Aktien App Vergleich that ultimately went bankrupt. An OIG official said Friday the investigation related to the tribe’s purchase of Westrock Advisors Inc. began in […]

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — A Brookings County woman is being treated for smoke inhalation after firefighters rescued her from a burning home Friday morning. The Brookings Fire Department and County Sheriff’s Office responded to the rural home where the 78-year-old woman was trapped inside just before 8:30 a.m. Deputies broke a window and found the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Game bird producers in the Midwest are ramping up disease prevention measures in an effort to shield their multi-billion-dollar industry from the highly contagious avian influenza outbreak sweeping the region’s poultry producers. The deadly H5N2 strain of avian influenza has cost turkey and chicken producers millions of birds but the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Lower Brule Sioux tribal official acting as chairman says he has asked the Department of the Interior to freeze transfers of federal funds to the tribe and investigate previous allegations of misdirected federal money. Acting Chairman Kevin Wright said Friday he had sent a letter this week making the […]

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Multiple design changes may be the reason a veterans hospital under construction near Denver soared more than $1 billion over budget, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee told reporters after touring the half-finished complex Friday. “When you have a lot of changes, you have a lot of costs,” […]