Hutchinson County News

Powerful straight-line winds are being blamed for damage in Menno, where roofs were ripped off buildings and trees fell on a couple vehicles and littered streets as tornado-spawning storms raged across eastern South Dakota Tuesday night.

Just over 700 people live in the Hutchinson County community of Menno. About 8:30 Tuesday night high winds and hail hit the town and in it's wake there was a lot of tree damage and some damage to homes.

Many cities are dealing with the clean-up from those storms today and the city of Menno is one of them.

A strong storm moved through Menno Tuesday night, leaving behind a path of damage.

You may not have heard of it and might have a hard time tracking it down on a map.

Yankton Deputy Fire Chief Larry Nickles says dry conditions and high winds are creating a high fire danger.

YANKTON - While the country deals with a deepening recession, the Yankton area is preparing for 400 to 450 workers building sections of the Keystone crude oil pipeline this summer.

Lawyers for both sides have agreed to a settlement in a 2006 federal lawsuit that said officials delayed calling a doctor despite seeing an inmate running into the walls of his Davison County Jail cell in a ...

Lawyers for both sides have filed paperwork agreeing to dismiss a 2006 federal lawsuit that said officials delayed calling a doctor despite seeing an inmate running into the walls of his Davison County Jail ...

Yankton County, which opened a new jail last fall, has agreed to take inmates from Hutchinson County, which does not have its own jail.

Eleven gravel trucks, three payloaders and a skidloader worked Monday to remove the rubble of the Hanson County Courthouse, a century-old building that was intentionally demolished by fire last week.