Yankton News

State roads will continue to deteriorate because falling gas tax revenue can't match rising construction costs, a state official said.

The bill would authorize the U.S.D.A. to advance payments for the 2008 Farm Bill's Crop Disaster Program.

JCI, Yankton, S.D., has announced the appointment of Lisa Carson to the position of marketing manager.

A Sioux Falls radio station has picked up the contract to be the flagship for broadcasting most University of South Dakota football and basketball games for the upcoming season.

Legislators who question Gov. Mike Rounds' school laptop initiative are two years late, the governor's budget officer said Tuesday.

Pigeons have been a problem in Yankton, but since city leaders passed an ordinance allowing people to shoot the birds, no one has come to City Hall to get the required permission.

NEW YORK Yankton Media, Inc., which publishes the Press & Dakotan, Vermillion Plain Talk, Missouri Valley Shopper and Vermillion Broadcaster, announced it will build a new printing plant adjacent to the P&D's ...

Eight days ago, a new law went into effect in South Dakota that requires homeless and transient sex offenders in the Rushmore State to register.

Alarming News from Rural South Dakota Guest post from Felicia Barnes of the University of South Dakota For the past few years, the University of South Dakota has used the term 'extraordinary' as part of its ...

In the seasons of planting and harvest, Vern Heber isn't able to simply walk out his door and climb onto his tractor.

Corps group recognized for Missouri River restoration work YANKTON, S.D. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is giving a national award to a team from the Army Corps of Engineers at Yankton.

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The Meridian Bridge, linking South Dakota to Nebraska along U.S. Highway 81 in Yankton, S.D., is now open once again.

An effort at a Yankton fish hatchery to preserve the endangered pallid sturgeon has reached a new milestone.

A HAMPSHIRE father and son could be delayed in their bid to tackle a 3,700-mile voyage in a paper boat.

Repair work on the Meridian Bridge over the Missouri River at Yankton is going well, and traffic should be restored next week.

Motorists reeling from record gas prices are facing additional bad news in South Dakota.

Repair work on the Meridian Bridge over the Missouri River at Yankton is going well, and traffic should be restored next week.

A federal judge has confirmed in writing that a hog farm owned by 11 Iowa farmers is not part of South Dakota's Yankton Sioux Reservation and told people trying to stop the project that they must show how it's ...

Office of the Governor 500 E. Capitol Ave. Pierre , SD 57501 773-3212 www.state.sd.us MEDIA ADVISORY: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 CONTACT: Mitch Krebs or Roxy Everson at 605-773-3212 News Tips for the week of June ...