PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s capital city has been going through a building boom of sorts. John Irvine with the city of Pierre told the Capital Journal ( ) that building permits for 2014 totaled $44 million in new construction. He says the last time the city was close to that was 2004 when […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers appear to be backing transportation funding package close to Gov.buy Tadalafil generic https://buynoprescriptiononlinerxx.net over the counter Dennis Daugaard’s roughly $50 million proposal, which is about half of a $100 million plan that a key legislative panel had suggested. Senate Majority Leader Tim Rave said he will replace the […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The former president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has formed a group to confront racism in Rapid City in response to reports that some Native American children were subjected to racial slurs and sprayed with beer at a local hockey game. Former President Bryan Brewer tells KCSR-AM his yet-to-named group […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The state Senate has passed a measure that would authorize three new voter-approved games in Deadwood. The chamber on Thursday voted 27-7 to approve the proposal to allow keno, craps and roulette in the historic mining town. It is now expected to be heard in a House committee. Supporters have pushed […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A legislative panel has defeated a measure to require South Dakota businesses to offer workers paid sick leave. The state Senate Commerce and Energy Committee on Thursday voted to kill the proposal after significant pushback from business groups. It would have allowed employees to accrue an hour of paid sick leave […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s newest U.S. Senator is setting up his main field office in Pierre. KCCR-AM ( ) reports that Sen. Mike Rounds and his staff are moving into the Hyde Building in South Dakota’s capital city. Among other tenants in the Hyde Building is the federal public defender’s office. Since being […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The federal Transportation Department has granted city officials in Pierre more time to study air service options. Pierre officials in November recommended Aerodynamics Inc. to provide flights through the Essential Air Service federal subsidy program. Federal officials in January said they planned to deny the company’s application because of legal and […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A Mission man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for a shooting that wounded another person. Authorities say 29-year-old Vernon Schmidt Jr. pointed a handgun at a person and waved it around during an argument in May 2014. The gun went off, hitting the other person in […]

EUREKA, S.D. (AP) — They say records are meant to be broken, but records were the furthest thing from Mike Mettler’s mind on Nov. 17 when he cut loose an arrow at a whitetail buck he’d been hunting for two years. Instead, the 39-year-old bowhunter from Eureka was more concerned about steadying his nerves to […]

LAKE ANDES, S.D. (AP) — A Lake Andes man accused of driving drunk and killing two federal wildlife researchers has been convicted of vehicular homicide but not the more serious charge of manslaughter. Thirty-year-old Ronald Fischer Jr. could face more than 30 years in prison, but he could have faced life in prison had he […]