June 2015

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — City Council members in Sioux Falls are looking at changing rules that ride-hailing service Uber says could prevent it from launching in the city. The Argus Leader ( ) reports a Sioux Falls committee will work to come up with new rules that are specific to ride-hailing companies. Assistant City […]

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — Meals served at schools in the Mitchell School District will cost more during the upcoming school year. KDLT-TV ( ) reports the school board has raised meal prices by 15 cents. The district serves breakfast and lunch. Sean Moen is the district’s food services director. Moen says the rising costs of […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The state Department of Transportation and Custer State Park are hosting an event to celebrate the reopening of Hood Tunnel on Highway 87 close to Sylvan Lake. The ribbon cutting ceremony is on Thursday. The tunnel was closed through the winter for infrastructure improvements, and the road opened again on […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is getting a $200,000 grant to provide job training and other assistance for homeless veterans living on the reservation. North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven says the grant is from the U.S. Labor Department’s homeless veterans’ reintegration program. The Standing Rock Reservation covers 2.3 million acres and […]

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

HARTFORD, S.D. (AP) — A 999-animal dairy operation has received the green light from Minnehaha County commissioners. The Argus Leader reports ( ) farmer Kyle Albers wants to build two contained animal feeding operation buildings and a lagoon pond on land his family owns near Hartford. Commissioners on Tuesday approved the project after Albers showed […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Nineteen South Dakota teens are training this week with the Highway Patrol during the annual Youth Trooper Academy. The one-week academy is geared toward adolescents aged 16 and 17 and will run through Friday afternoon at the South Dakota Law Enforcement Training Academy in Pierre. The event is put on by […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A hotline set up by the U.S. Department of Agriculture can help youth in South Dakota find places where they can have access to free meals this summer. The USDA National Hunger Hotline provides information about sites where children and adolescents ages 18 and under can get nutritious meals through the […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Authorities in western South Dakota suspect two people may be missing after kayaks were found partially submerged. The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the whereabouts of the two people whose kayaks were found Tuesday morning in Rapid Creek by the Fish Hatchery. The department is asking that anyone with […]

SHARPS CORNER, S.D. (AP) — Ground has been broken for a housing community that’s been in the planning stage for about five years in Sharps Corner on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The housing project envisioned by the Thunder Valley Community Development Corp. will include more than 30 single-family homes, a grocery store, powwow grounds […]