Wanblee News

Lacreek Electric representatives said they expect 500 more people in the reservation area to have power.

Lacreek Electric Association in Martin restored power Friday to Wanblee and some scattered residences, but more than 375 people remain without power Saturday morning.

With the blizzard almost a week past and the temperature near 50, Reed Richardson was warming toward optimism Wednesday afternoon as he stood near the open door to his unheated store and soaked up the sun.

Since Wednesday's blizzard toppled transmission lines and snapped power poles, 1,670 people from across the Northern Plains and the Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge Indian reservations have lived without power.

LaRee Mayes couldn't help but express her satisfaction as she bent to lay a case of bottled water on a front seat of the bus.

Stephanie Richards stared at herself in the bathroom mirror and began the first of many long brush strokes through her wet black hair.

Spending five days without electricity or running water has been an ordeal for people in Wanblee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

A National Guard crew today used a Blackhawk helicopter to evacuate four people - three of whom are in need of dialysis treatments - from Wanblee to the Pine Ridge Hospital, the guard said in a statement ...

Assault and maiming charges have been filed against a Wanblee man accused of biting off a chunk of another man's lip.

Federal grand jurors indicted a Wanblee man last week for biting off part of another man's lip.

Stephanie Kaufman, a government and history teacher at Sturgis Brown High School, has been selected as the Preserve America History Teacher of the Year for South Dakota.

Federal prosecutors filed a new complaint Friday against a Canadian man less than two hours after a judge dismissed the indictment in the slaying of an indigenous Canadian woman 32 years ago.

Members from each of the nine small Episcopal churches on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation slated for closure met in Kyle on Sept.

The defense attorney for murder suspect John Graham has filed a motion asking that the indictment against Graham be dismissed, arguing that the U.S. District Court does not have jurisdiction over the case.

Associated Press - September 12, 2008 8:45 AM ET RAPID CITY, S.D. - Federal prosecutors say a Rushville, Neb., man drove drunk and killed two residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation who were walking ...

Callonie Randall, 26, Wanblee, and Robert Whirlwind Horse, 22, Manderson, died Wednesday in an auto-pedestrian accident.

The white van made its way through the streets Monday afternoon, with Sturgis Mayor Maury LaRue at the wheel.

They had a big celebration down in Wanblee on Wednesday to mark the official delivery of Missouri River water from an intake pipe north of Fort Pierre to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Generations of people living on Pine Ridge have had unhealthy drinking water, if any running water at all.

Associated Press - August 20, 2008 2:45 PM ET MITCHELL, S.D. - The Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in South Dakota says incumbent Democrat Tim Johnson's decision not to debate is more of an issue with ...