Associated Press

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The suspect in a weekend shooting in western South Dakota is now in custody after police fired beanbag rounds to subdue him. The Rapid City Police Department says the 69-year-old male suspect was arrested Wednesday after an altercation with police. Authorities suspect the Sturgis man fired the shot that seriously […]

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Allie Thiesse was looking for a volunteer project she could really sink her teeth into. “I walked around (Yankton High School) dressed as a vampire to help create awareness and support for the blood drive being hosted at our school,” she told the Yankton Press and Dakotan ( ). “We wanted […]

SCENIC, S.D. (AP) — It began as a love story in Czechoslovakia in the early 1900s, he the son of landowners, she a neighbor of a different class, forbidden from marrying by the mores of the day. More than 110 years later, the prairie homestead east of Scenic established by Josef and Marie Kudrna and […]

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — Bison, it’s what’s for dinner. Although not exactly the popular slogan known across the nation, it might as well be for South Dakotans. South Dakota is becoming known as the state that consistently proves itself as a vital contributor to the economy in a big way: raising and producing bison. South […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — If you opt to drive state highways instead of the soulless stretch of Interstate 90 that runs through South Dakota, then you’ve seen the large white signs that offer the traveler a bit of history. The homemade historic markers share information in black letters burned into 1-by-12 or 2-by-12 boards: […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — More than 400 homeowners whose property lies along the Missouri River could end up paying a $50 surcharge on their flood insurance if county officials in southeast South Dakota do not meet a federal deadline. The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to put Union County on probationary status with the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Board of Regents has voted to allow Northern State University to create a Chinese language and cultural center that will be the first of its kind in the Dakotas and that officials hope will give the state a link to China’s growing economy. The Board voted 7-0 to […]

ELKTON, S.D. (AP) — The Brookings County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an armed home invasion in rural Elkton. Authorities say a man entered an unlocked residence north of Elkton about 7 a.m. Monday, armed with a handgun and a knife. The man tied up the lone male occupant of the home, disabled his cellphone and […]

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton is launching a $3.5 million renovation project that will take a year to complete. The Daily Press & Dakotan newspaper reports ( ) that the project will update patient care rooms on the hospital’s surgical floor. President and CEO Doug Ekeren says the project will […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota Division of Motor Vehicles directive on when county treasurers should impose an increase in vehicle license fees has upset some county officials. A new state law increases most motor vehicle license fees by 20 percent, effective April 1. The Rapid City Journal reports ( ) that the […]