Plankinton News

Believe it or not, construction season is starting to wrap up across KELOLAND. And while drivers see plenty of orange barrels each year, some extra work this summer came at just the right time.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press UNDATED A winter weather advisory is posted for the Black Hills through mid morning and for northwest South Dakota this afternoon and tonight.

A 51-year-old Plankinton woman will be incarcerated for a year and must repay $5,000 she illegally received in Social Security benefits.

A Georgia-based heath care management and consulting company is expanding its South Dakota operations.

The Sioux Falls Seminary will sponsor a pheasant hunt Sept. 16-18 in Plankinton at the K&M Lodge.

A decade ago 14 year old Gina Score died after going through a 'boot-camp style' program at the juvenile detention facility in Plankinton.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Gina Score. She died of heat exhaustion after a mandatory run at the former state training school in Plankinton.

Originally charged with manslaughter in the death of a 20-month old toddler, a former South Sioux City, Nebraska foster mom has changed her plea to two new charges.

A motorcycle-van crash on Interstate 90 has killed a Sioux Falls woman. The Highway Patrol says 54-year-old Carole Donat was riding a motorcycle that drifted into the wrong lane and collided with a van in a construction zone about six miles west of Plankinton.

It's been said everyone deserves a second chance in life. A once troubled Sioux Falls teenager is making the most of his.

It's 36-months in jail for the Creighton, Nebraska, man, who took off with his wife and kids after domestic abuse questions by police.

Dr. Mark Page, an Ahwatukee optometrist and founder of a 15-year-old practice called Arizona's Vision, remembers what it was like to be surrounded by music.

Hank Shouse helped bring Labrador into the 20th century Joan Sullivan From Wednesday's Globe and Mail, Wednesday, Jun.

Basin Electric Power Cooperative said it will take at least a year before it chooses between two sites for a 101-turbine wind farm.

Spring Fever Hits Hometown There are many colleges around the country that offer agriculture majors, but one hometown college offers ag with a christian education, which is the perfect fit for two young women pursuing careers in the ag industry.

Dr. Tom Dean of Wessington Springs has been named Practitioner of the Year by the National Rural Health Association.

A subsidiary of Basin Electric Power wants to build a wind energy farm in eastern South Dakota.

Kathye Miller comes from Oklahoma, where in song the wind comes sweeping down the plain and where in reality a typical year brings 52 tornadoes and five fatalities.