June 2015

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A nonprofit archaeological group from Denver is digging in Bismarck, looking for clues on how Mandan American Indians lived 500 years ago. The excavation this month at Chief Looking’s Village if a follow-up to a previous dig in which members of the PaleoCultural Research Group found remains of Mandan homes. Research […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A ride-hailing service that operates in about 300 cities around the world has recruited drivers in Sioux Falls but might be blocked from operating in South Dakota’s largest city. Assistant City Attorney Keith Allenstein says services such as Uber will have to follow city rules governing independent contractors and taxi […]

GETTYSBURG, S.D. (AP) — Natural gas is believed to be the cause of an explosion that damaged a Gettysburg home and injured a baby inside. Potter County Emergency Manager Cheryl Sautner tells the American News ( ) that the blast occurred about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at the home of Scott and Lisa Quiett. Officials with […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls police have arrested a suspect in an alleged hit and run that put a man in the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Thirty-one-year-old Christopher Benson, of Sioux Falls, faces charges of assault and felony injury hit and run. He was jailed Wednesday on $50,000 cash bond. It wasn’t immediately […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A sculpture has been repaired and is returning to its place in an annual exhibition in downtown Sioux Falls after it was damaged by vandals. The Argus Leader ( ) reports the piece called “Book Peddlers” was knocked from its perch in front of a bank last month. It is […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — About 400 South Dakota firefighters are expected to attend the annual state fire school in Pierre this week. The firefighters will choose from 26 classes in the training event that begins Thursday with an opening ceremony and runs through Saturday. Fire Marshal Paul Merriman says this year’s classes range “from firefighter […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A new student dormitory is going up on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. The Rapid City university says enrollment has increased 35 percent over the last six years, which has led to a demand for more housing. The new dorm will be able to […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 11-14-15-34-35 (eleven, fourteen, fifteen, thirty-four, thirty-five)

BLACK HILLS NATIONAL FOREST, S.D. (AP) — A contingent of people affiliated with a counterculture group that annually brings together thousands of people in a national forest is meeting in the Black Hills to hash out whether to hold the event there in July. Members of the Rainbow Family of Living Light came together Wednesday […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal education officials have given Pine Ridge School in western South Dakota $218,000 to help students and teachers in their recovery from a string of student suicides and attempted suicides in recent months on the Indian reservation where the school is located. The White House on Wednesday announced the grant […]