University of South Dakota News

With approval from the Board of Regents and the state legislature in hand, the comprehensive upgrade of the University of South Dakota athletic facilities is close to happening, but a start date for new construction has not been announced.

University of South Dakota has announced the starting times of its six home football games to be played at the DakotaDome during the 2013 season.

Some University of South Dakota students are upset with the school's Native Studies major, saying it falsely advertises coursework and doesn't have enough instructors.

She came to the University of South Dakota because of the promise of its Native Studies program, intent on absorbing tribal culture, history and governance so she could make documentaries about reservation life some day.

To earn the distinction, students must have a GPA of at least 3.5 while maintaining a course load of 12 or more credit hours.

Watch -- and laugh -- as he tries to do everything from fly a kite to work up the nerve to talk to that cute little red-haired girl.

The Mobridge-Pollock School Board heard Superintendent Tim Frederick report the district has been chosen to participate in a pilot program for development of a new teacher evaluation model.

Brandi Martian of Mobridge will be among the candidates competing for the title of Miss Teen of South Dakota at the 2013 state pageant Aug. 16 through 18 in Pierre.

South Dakota's gross domestic product took a tumble last year when compared to the bounty of 2011, and officials and analysts are pointing to the worst drought in decades as the cause.

Firefighters race toward disaster. Surgeons cut people open. Judges send folks to jail.

Maybe it had been lost in the mail or forgotten in a box. Or maybe it was delivered to the wrong place.

Kurt Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music." Winthrop in "The Music Man." Nicely-Nicely Johnson in "Guys and Dolls."

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Katie Wilhelmi is a registered and licensed dietitian with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and in Minnesota.

A snapshot was all it took. That's when Cole Hagen faced what he looked like. He knew he was a little heavy, but in that moment of staring at a photo, "I realized it was really bad," he says.

The state's two largest universities will allow 21-year-old students to drink alcohol in select on-campus apartments or dormitories run by the schools.

University of South Dakota junior Bethany Buell is a national champion at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships.

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced that he will appoint R. Blake Curd, MD, president of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Orthopedic Institute, to the South Dakota State Senate.

A new major in American Indian Studies at South Dakota State University holds the promise of more knowledge going back to the state's reservations, and more expertise for those who work with Native American issues.

The South Dakota Department of Education has named the former director of the federal Bureau of Indian Education as the interim director of Indian education for the state.