July 2015

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Texas company appears to have adequately addressed some of the biggest environmental issues facing its $3.8 billion pipeline from western North Dakota to Illinois, North Dakota regulators said Monday. North Dakota’s Public Service Commission held an informal work session on Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access project, the biggest-capacity pipeline […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds has raised about $42,700 in the most recent fundraising quarter and is sitting on about $30,300 of debt. Recently released federal campaign finance reports show Rounds has about $3,700 in the bank. The fundraising period ran from April through June. The former South Dakota […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Public Service Commission says some big environmental concerns have been addressed by the company proposing a $3.8 billion pipeline from western North Dakota to Illinois. The three-member regulatory panel says Energy Transfer Partners appears to have a good plan in place to address worries about land reclamation and river […]

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman is out of more than $300 after a con artist claiming to be a police officer demanded that she wired him money. Brookings Police Lt. Derrick Powers tells KBRK-AM ( ) that the bogus officer threatened to arrest the woman if she didn’t pay some overdraft fees. […]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Intense drought conditions have shrunk the kernels and disrupted the proteins of winter wheat crops in Montana, Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the region that produces a fifth of the U.S. harvest. The National Agricultural Statistics Service classified a large percentage of the region’s winter wheat as below-average quality this month. Farmers […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Police say a 17-year-old boy was stabbed at a Sioux Falls apartment that he entered during a drug-related home invasion. Sgt. Michael Olson says police got a call about 4 a.m. Sunday that several masked people armed with handguns were breaking into the home. Olson says residents barricaded themselves in […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — An Aberdeen man was hospitalized after being run over by his own vehicle. Police say 66-year-old Greg Krueger lost control of his vehicle in a business parking lot late Sunday morning. The American News reports ( ) that it rolled across a city avenue and into the parking lot of another […]

SALEM, S.D. (AP) — Attorney General Marty Jackley says his office is investigating the shooting of a man in Salem by a McCook County sheriff’s deputy. Jackley says the shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, when law officers responded to a call from the Brewery Bar and “the incident escalated.” Bar owner Sheri Greenlee tells […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Public Service Commission is holding an informal work session on a $3.8 million pipeline from western North Dakota to Illinois. The three-member panel recently completed public hearings in Mandan, Killdeer and Williston on the Dakota Access project, which is the biggest-capacity pipeline proposed to date to move North Dakota […]

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — An inmate who went missing from the minimum-security state prison in Yankton is back in custody. South Dakota Corrections officials say 35-year-old Jack Williams was apprehended in South Sioux City, Nebraska, early Monday. Williams had been placed on escape status on Sunday after he failed to return from his work-release shift […]