Hughes County News

Groundbreaking for a new Hughes County jail has tentatively been set for Oct. 15, although officials still don't know how much it's going to cost.

City and county stances against Initiated Measure 10 have a group in favor of the measure crying foul and demanding action.

How many people know what treaties are? The Crow Creek Tribe never took the IRA form of government nor the Howard Wheeler Act.

A 23-year-old Pierre man has received a five-year suspended prison sentence for stealing women's underwear.

A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper who killed a man after a chase near Harrold in October is being sued by the man's fiancee.

Ever since the collapse of the I35-W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis in Aug.

PIERRE - Seventy percent of people questioned in a recent poll say they are against using taxpayer money for the school-aid lawsuit under way in Hughes County.

Some $83,000 in grant money to be spread around the area to various parties in and around Hughes County could mean new equipment for many groups.

Several more school officials are expected to testify this week in a trial challenging the state's funding method for education.

A Pierre man charged with several counts of child molestation has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

A trial date has been set for a Rapid City man accused of stabbing three people outside a north Rapid City apartment complex last May.

The trial challenging South Dakota's method of funding education began this morning in Hughes County Circuit Court.

PIERRE - Every morning and evening, Juan Howell walks into the Hughes County Jail for a 10-second test that shows whether he has been drinking.

A decision rendered last week dealt a blow to the funding lawsuit filed by school districts throughout South Dakota.

The Hughes County Board of Adjustment has granted a conditional-use permit to Dakota Fisheries, Inc., which plans to build a tilapia-processing plant 3.5 miles north of Pierre.

Little more information has been released by the Pierre Police Department regarding the Aug.

PIERRE - An off-duty Pierre police officer has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

On August 20th, 2008, Hughes County Circuit Court Judge Lori Wilbur held that individual school districts lack standing to sue the state of South Dakota seeking a declaration that the state's system of funding ...

Josia Fuerst made an initial court appearance Wednesday and was being held on a $100,000 bond.

FORT PIERRE - South Dakota schools should be able to contribute public money to the cost of a lawsuit over the adequacy of state aid to education, lawyers for those bringing the funding case said this ...