SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more animals reported 235,000 cattle on feed on March 1, up 7 percent from last year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its latest report that placements in feedlots during February totaled 41,000 head, up 5 percent from 2014. Marketings of […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A senior from Watertown High School won the state’s Poetry Out Loud competition and is headed to Washington, D.C., to represent South Dakota in national competition April 27-29. Ashley Brage won $200 and her school will receive $500 to be used for poetry books, in addition to her trip to the […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed a controversial Republican-backed measure to exempt South Dakota’s youngest workers from the $8.50 minimum wage voters approved in November, but has vetoed three obscure tax proposals that passed with mostly strong support. Daugaard acted on the last bills from the 2015 session on Friday. He signed […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed a measure to help determine whether South Dakota’s property tax burden is a barrier to entry for businesses looking to offer affordable housing rentals. Daugaard vetoed the bill Friday. It would have created a new property classification for leased residential property. Republican Sen. Deb Peters says […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed a measure that would have slightly reduced the amount of tax burden on rural electric companies. Daugaard vetoed the bill Friday. He explained in a letter that the exemption would have given special preference to a specific type of business, eroding the foundation of South Dakota’s […]
VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Campus police at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion say they are investigating a report of a sexual assault at a residence hall. Authorities on Friday said the assault allegedly happened Wednesday in the Coyote Village dorm. Pete Jensen is director of the University Police Department. Jensen says the case […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Organizers of the annual Lakota Nation Invitational basketball tournament will keep it in Rapid City this year. The tournament’s board of directors had been entertaining offers from other potential host sites due to racial tensions in Rapid City. KEVN-TV reports ( ) that Board President Chuck Wilson has issued a […]
DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — A Deadwood man who admitted to burglarizing two churches has been sentenced to four years in prison. Judge Michelle Percy also ordered 52-year-old Steven Purchase to pay nearly $1,100 in restitution. Percy pleaded guilty to burglarizing St. Ambrose Catholic Church in May 2014. Percy cut himself, leaving blood on a broken […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Almost one-fourth of what Sioux Falls trash collectors hauled away last year was sent to recyclers, setting a city record. The Argus Leader reports ( ) the 23.5 percent recycling rate was the highest since the city began monitoring it in 2008, and exceeded the goal officials had set for […]
