RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Rapid City police have identified a man killed in a house fire. Authorities say 79-year-old Fred Morgan was pronounced dead at a hospital after being pulled from the home Thursday night. The official cause of death was not immediately released. Authorities said after the fire that Morgan had suffered burns […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — NorthWestern Energy makes its case to state regulators Tuesday in a dispute over at least $8.5 million that the utility collected from Montana customers after a 2013 power plant outage forced it to buy electricity on the open market. The South Dakota-based utility said in filings with the state Public Service […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The communities of Mobridge and Keystone are getting a state Department of Health grant to help assess the Sioux Falls towns’ pedestrian-friendliness. Chronic disease prevention and health promotion administrator Linda Ahrendt says an average of just 22 minutes a day of physical activity, such as brisk walking, can significantly reduce the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 17 months in prison in connection with a scuffle with two arresting officers outside a casino last year. Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler says 26-year-old Tony St. John was also ordered to spend two years on supervised release. The Fort Thompson man earlier […]

CANTON, S.D. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted the 16-year-old South Dakota student accused of shooting his high school principal. The Argus Leader ( ) reports the indictment charges Mason Buhl with first-degree attempted murder and commission of a felony while armed with a firearm. Buhl is accused of confronting Harrisburg High School Principal […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard is among the speakers who have eulogized former Gov. Walter Dale Miller during a memorial ceremony being held at the state Capitol in Pierre. The ceremony Monday followed a public viewing at the Capitol. Miller died Sept. 28 at age 89. In 1993, he stepped in […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The husband of former U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth has been indicted on election law violations in connection with his wife’s problematic 2014 campaign. A Hughes County indictment charges Chad Haber with one count each of offering false or forged instrument for filing and perjury. Authorities say Haber turned in […]

PARKSTON, S.D. (AP) — Four people have being hospitalized after the helicopter they were in crashed into a shed in a fertilizer plant in South Dakota. The Hutchinson County Sheriff’s Office says the incident happened around 11:30 a.m. Monday in Parkston. The conditions of the victims were not immediately clear. Their identities have not been […]

LEAD, S.D. (AP) — The Sanford Underground Research Facility has hired geologist and project manager Walter Weinig as its new lab director. Weinig begins overseeing daily operations on Monday. He comes to Sanford Lab from the Denver office of Montgomery and Associates, a water-resource consulting firm based in Tucson, Arizona. He holds a Bachelor of […]

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The Administration for Native Americans has awarded a $400,000 emergency grant to the Oglala Sioux Tribe to pay for activities and programs designed to prevent youth suicides on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Kevin Yellow Bird Steele, a spokesman for the tribe, told the Rapid City Journal ( ) that […]