Shannon County News

The weekly crop report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture says statewide last week, there were only two days suitable for field work.

Soggy fields and more rain continue to hold up South Dakota's row-crop harvest. The weekly crop report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture says statewide last week, there were only two days suitable for field work.

At Sunday morning services, seven United Church of Christ members and friends shared their week-long June 2009 outreach, cultural and spiritual awareness experiences at the Pine Ridge S.D. agency.

The state Health Department has confirmed two more swine flu-related deaths in South Dakota, bringing the total to four.

A Minnehaha County man in his 60s is the fourth South Dakota resident to die from the H1N1 influenza this season and the second this week.

School absences jumped and health officials scrambled Wednesday to fight the H1N1 flu virus spreading across South Dakota.

The H1N1 flu virus has officially become a killer in South Dakota. State health officials say the first victim of H1N1 was a resident of Shannon County, who was in their 40's and also had an underlying health condition.

The Department of Health has reported its first death in South Dakota from H1N1 influenza.

A new hospital complex in the southwestern South Dakota city of Hot Springs is getting more federal help.

A new hospital complex in the southwestern South Dakota city of Hot Springs is getting more federal help.

A new hospital complex in the southwestern South Dakota city of Hot Springs is getting more federal help.

A new hospital complex in the southwestern South Dakota city of Hot Springs is getting more federal help.

South Dakota schools would get $17.7 million for green construction projects under legislation that passed the House on Thursday.

South Dakota's average age ticked up again from 2000 to 2008, its estimated Hispanic population almost doubled and Shannon County is listed in three national rankings, according to state and county population estimates by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

President Obama wants to close 5,000 "chronically underperforming" schools and reopen them with new teachers and principals.

To Dean Jones and Jim Holbeck, something seems slightly out of kilter with the distribution of Title I money from the stimulus plan.

Posted by: Doug Wiken - 04/15/2009 12:26 AM The Winner, SD School District in Tripp County South Dakota had another opt-out election combined with election of two school board members.