PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The driving skills of a central South Dakota bus driver have been recognized at a national competition. The Capital Journal reports driver Adam Sharkey with the River Cities Public Transit earned fourth place at the annual National Community Transportation Roadeo. Sharkey competed against nearly 90 drivers from the U.S. and Canada. […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Minnehaha County sheriff says officials should rethink who gets held in jails as the county prepares to expand its facility. The Argus Leader ( ) reports a committee endorsed a plan last month that would see the existing 400-bed facility be expanded by 320 beds. But Sheriff Mike Milstead […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A coal-fired power plant that opened in 1961 in Rapid City is being taken down this summer. The Rapid City Journal ( ) reports the Ben French Generating Station was decommissioned in August 2012 as operator Black Hills Power moved toward using natural gas. The site was named after former […]

DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — High on the steep slopes above Deadwood, two men working for the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks are gathering information on the habitat and vegetation in the area the state’s newest bighorn sheep herd calls home. On Feb. 12, 26 bighorn sheep from Canada were released in the hills above […]

KEYSTONE, S.D. (AP) — Since Mount Rushmore National Memorial opened, National Park Service rangers have been using a temporary tent that wasn’t a very convenient classroom for teaching young children about the presidents’ faces, Black Hills wildlife and area history. But the temporary tent is history, the Rapid City Journal ( ) reported. The Mount […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 02-08-20-30-35 (two, eight, twenty, thirty, thirty-five)

BRIDGEWATER, S.D. (AP) — Authorities have identified an Emery man who was killed in a car crash Friday afternoon near Bridgewater. The South Dakota Highway Patrol says 74-year-old Ronald Triebwasser was the passenger in a 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan that was traveling west on 261st Street when it left the road as it approached a […]

PARKSTON, S.D. (AP) — Authorities have identified a Parkston man who was killed Friday in a car crash. The Department of Public Safety says 52-year-old Paul Bader was riding his motorcycle was he was struck by a Buick Enclave that was attempting to pass a semi-truck. A 78-year-old man was driving the Buick. Officials say […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Authorities in Rapid City are investigating the drowning of a woman in Rapid Creek. Rapid City police responded to a report of a drowning in the creek near Steele Avenue and Omaha Street just before 7 a.m. Saturday. There officers say they found an unresponsive woman who had been pulled […]

RUNNING WATER, S.D. (AP) — A Nebraska woman has died after falling into the Missouri River in southeastern South Dakota. Authorities say 23-year-old Veronica Jo Keeble of Niobrara, Nebraska, fell into the water while she and four others were down near the river by Standing Bear Memorial Bridge. KELO-TV reports ( ) at least two […]