MARION, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lottery officials say a Powerball ticket sold in Marion is worth $10,000 in the Saturday drawing. The ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball to win the game’s third prize, at odds of 1 in about 649,000. The winner has about six months to claim […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The average retail price of a gallon of gasoline in the Dakotas has crept back above the $2 mark. GasBuddy.com reports that the average price in North Dakota has risen nearly 11 cents per gallon in the past week, to $2.08. In South Dakota, the average price has risen about the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A legislative panel has approved a proposal that would allow people in South Dakota to carry a concealed pistol without a permit. The House State Affairs Committee on Monday narrowly voted to pass the measure, which removes the requirement for a concealed pistol permit from state law. Openly carrying a firearm […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Radioshack has announced that it will be closing nine retail locations in South Dakota. The struggling consumer electronics chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. The company announced on Monday that it will close nearly 1,800 stores by March 31. KELO-TV reports ( ) that the locations statewide to […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — People in parts of the Dakotas could have a slick commute early Tuesday. The National Weather Service says there is a chance of freezing rain late Monday and early Tuesday from northwestern North Dakota to southeastern South Dakota. Forecasters say one tenth of an inch of ice could accumulate in some […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Black Hills Power says the company has reached few easements with landowners along the route of a proposed $54 million power line in South Dakota and Wyoming. The South Dakota-based utility says the line is needed to improve the reliability of the utility’s electrical system. But some of the 65 […]

LAKE ANDES, S.D. (AP) — A judge has convicted a man accused of driving under the influence and killing two U.S. Fish and Wildlife researchers in Pickstown more than 18 months ago. Ron Fischer Jr. was found guilty last week of two counts of vehicular homicide, misdemeanor DUI, marijuana possession and ingesting. He was found […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s state court system is looking for three new circuit judges and could add two more spots if state lawmakers go along with it. A Seventh Circuit judgeship in Rapid City is open because Judge Janine Kern was appointed to the state Supreme Court. Two positions in the Third Circuit […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Banker T. Denny Sanford, who already has given millions away for health, welfare and children’s causes in California and the Upper Midwest, was the 15th largest donor to nonprofit organizations in 2014, according a newspaper that tracks such contributions. The Chronicle of Philanthropy on Sunday released its annual list of […]

NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. (AP) — Officials have still not identified skeletal remains of several people dug up last summer from a burial site discovered by a utility crew off Interstate 29 in North Sioux City. The Sioux City Journal reports ( ) a state official says a preliminary investigation showed the bones belonged to […]