Brookings County News

Gophers, which harm electrical lines, telephone lines, and livestock yards and cause other damage, have become a bit more endangered in Brookings County.

A Bruce woman was struck and injured by a car while she stood on a bridge Tuesday watching her husband fish.

UPDATED: 10:03 p.m. Severe weather has redeveloped prompting the National Weather Service to issue a Tornado Warning until 10:30 p.m. for parts of eastern South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota.

Officials in the Brookings County Sheriff's Department say they used Tasers to subdue an "uncooperative and combative" man at the Volga street dance early Sunday morning.

Posted by: Pat Powers - 06/17/2009 8:29 AM Apparently there's a troupe of residents of Brookings who are peeved off.

Some Brookings residents are gathering petition signatures aimed at challenging a County Commission decision to buy land for parking space.

On Monday morning at around 3:30 the Bruce Fire Department responded to a structure fire at both 405 and 407 Jefferson in Bruce.

Posted by: David Newquist - 05/12/2009 10:21 PM According to various news reports, Bradley Odens, 23, got drunk in a Brookings bar and when he went home at 2 a.m., he tried to get into a house two doors from where he lived.

Eric Peterson of Brookings is a rescuer times two. First, he rescued Eve, a 2-year-old American Pit Bull Terrier.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 05/06/2009 6:45 AM Mr. Powers gleefully misportrays speculation from Roll Call on the chances for the GOP to take Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's House seat if she chooses to run for governor.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 04/28/2009 7:45 AM Is the unemployment line half full or half empty? Stats from the South Dakota Department of Labor indicate that Lake County had 5.3% unemployment in March.

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission approved a construction permit for the $700 million Buffalo Ridge II wind farm it will be built in both Brookings and Deuel counties.

PIERRE, S.D. - The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission has approved a construction permit for the $700 million Buffalo Ridge II wind farm planned for Brookings and Deuel counties.

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission has approved a construction permit for the $700 million Buffalo Ridge II wind farm that will be built in Brookings and Deuel counties.

Associated Press - April 19, 2009 7:45 PM ET BROOKINGS, S.D. - South Dakota Public Utilities Commission member Steve Kolbeck says a decision is pending on the $700 million, 306-megawatt Buffalo Ridge II wind farm proposed for land in Brookings and Deuel counties.

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Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 04/18/2009 7:30 AM When I first heard about the shooting of Bradley Odens up in Brookings, I thought, "Well, that's what you get for breaking into houses." Brookings County States Attorney Clyde Calhoon appears to agree, as he has declined to press charges for what he has deemed a justified killing .

The Grant County Commission has passed a rewritten ordinance dealing with the transmission of electricity from wind farms proposed for the area.

Criminal charges will not be filed against the resident who fatally shot a man who forcibly entered his Brookings home at 2 a.m., the Brookings County prosecutor said.

The county prosecutor said he will not file criminal charges against the resident who fatally shot a man who forcibly entered his Brookings home at 2 in the morning.