State/Local

LENNOX, S.D. (AP) — Authorities are at two crime scenes about 20 miles southwest of Sioux Falls, including at an industrial business in Lennox where two people were shot. It happened Thursday afternoon at Sioux Steel. The condition of the people shot wasn’t immediately released. The attorney general’s office says officers are still looking for […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — TransCanada Corp. will temporarily suspend efforts to seize Nebraska land for its much-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline after landowners sued, in what is one obstacle the Canadian company still faces in the 1,179-mile project. A Holt County District judge issued a temporary injunction Thursday, keeping TransCanada from invoking eminent domain along […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Over the objections of some student representatives and South Dakota’s Board of Regents, a legislative panel approved Thursday and sent to the full state House a proposal to allow people 21 years or older to carry a concealed weapon on the six public university campuses. The House Local Government Committee voted […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a South Dakota woman to 22 years in prison for the murder of a woman on Montana’s Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters sentenced 42-year-old Eugenia Ann Rowland of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, on Thursday in Billings. Rowland pleaded guilty last year to […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A legislative committee has approved a measure to increase lawmaker pay to $10,000 for each regular session as part of an effort to encourage more South Dakotans to run for office. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted 6-2 to approve the plan to boost the current $6,000 salary. Republican Sen. […]

LENNOX, S.D. (AP) — The search for a gunman southwest of Sioux Falls in Lennox is over. Authorities say two people have died and two others are injured. Police say a gunman entered a Sioux Steel location called ProTech Thursday afternoon, shot two people and assaulted a third. One of the people shot was killed […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers could see their salaries nearly double as part of an effort to encourage more people to run for office. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted 6-2 to approve the plan to boost the $6,000 salary to $10,000 per regular legislative session. Sen. Craig Tieszen said his proposal […]

SAN JOSE, California (AP) — As bad as recent droughts in California, the Southwest and the Midwest have been, scientists say far worse “megadroughts” are coming — and they’re bound to last for decades. “Unprecedented drought conditions” — the worst in more than 1,000 years — are likely to come to the Southwest and Central […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 08-20-28-34-35 (eight, twenty, twenty-eight, thirty-four, thirty-five)

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota bird watchers can join millions of others from around the world this weekend in the 17th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count. The event runs Friday through Monday and there’s no cost to take part. The reports create a picture of where different types of birds are located for use […]