Harding County News

Paleontologists said feet like these used to walk where a pipeline could soon go in Harding County.

More than 60 people showed up to a South Dakota Public Utilities Commission public hearing in Pierre on Tuesday, to comment on TransCanada's plans to build an underground pipeline in the state.

Norman Negaard, owner of a hardware store on Buffalo's Main Street, has heard it all before, only to be left disappointed when plans never materialized.

A crude oil pipeline that TransCanada Keystone wants to build across western South Dakota would face medical, housing and supply challenges because the areas it would run through are remote and sparsely populated, a company official said Monday.

Authorities say 48-year-old Blair Martin Hamilton, who lived near Reva, died of a gunshot wound Oct.

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission will hold a public input hearing on Tuesday, Nov.

Lincoln County Commissioner Jim Schmidt has been elected president of the board of directors of the South Dakota Association of County Commissioners for 2009-10. Minnehaha County Commissioner Anne Hajek also was elected to serve on the board.

Harding County voters passed a $5 million bond to build a new K-12 school in Buffalo.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied a rehearing in the five-year ownership battle over Tinker, a 65 million-year-old skeleton of a teenage Tyrannosaurus Rex unearthed in South Dakota.

South Dakota hunters will have fewer chances to stalk antelope this fall because a tough winter, combined with low reproduction rates this summer, has thinned the state's herd.

State wildlife managers have decided to trim the number of antelope hunting licenses for Perkins and Harding counties in northwest South Dakota.

A five-year court battle over ownership of Tinker, a 65 million-year-old skeleton of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed in South Dakota, is back in court.

A five-year court battle over ownership of Tinker, a 65 million-year-old skeleton of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed in South Dakota, is back in court.

Attorney Ken Barker in the filing says the panel based its decision on its belief that the county waived or ratified Frithiof's act of conversion, yet the issue was not raised at the district court.

Originally published August 6, 2009 at 4:08 p.m., updated August 6, 2009 at 7:49 p.m. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. a ' An appeals court on Thursday upheld a group of fossil hunters' claim to the remains of Tinker the teenage T-rex, meaning the remote South Dakota county where it was discovered is entitled to just 10 percent of any sale proceeds.

Originally published August 6, 2009 at 4:08 p.m., updated August 6, 2009 at 7:49 p.m. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. a ' An appeals court on Thursday upheld a group of fossil hunters' claim to the remains of Tinker the teenage T-rex, meaning the remote South Dakota county where it was discovered is entitled to just 10 percent of any sale proceeds.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. A lobbyist for Indian casinos says limiting their number of slot machines hurts economic development in South Dakota.

Authorities say 30-year-old Travis Peters of Belle Fourche, S.D., was being pursued by deputies on U.S. Highway 85 Wednesday morning when he lost control of the car he was driving and struck a pickup truck and another car on the highway.