South Dakota News Archives

New at ten tonight, a recent Gallop Poll puts South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota on a top ten list for trusting your neighbors.

South Dakota Secretary of State Chris Nelson got a surprise in the mail. An anonymous donor sent $66 in cash accompanied with a handwritten note that said it was to help with the state debt.

South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds says a federal study should change management of the Missouri River to better reflect the needs of people who live along it.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: GOULDING VERDICT Jury convicts man of murder RAPID CITY, S.D. A jury rejected Robert Goulding's argument of an assisted suicide and convicted him of first-degree murder after about 30 minutes of deliberation Thursday.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 10/28/2009 8:03 AM Brookings can produce some spectacular citizen journalism: Amy Dunkle graces the pages of The Post with a wide-ranging assessment of the cost of higher education in South Dakota .

Officials say an Israeli arms company will open a plant in Rapid City sometime in the next year.

But they aren't the only schools dealing with empty seats in the classroom; South Dakota colleges are seeing their fair share of H1N1 flu absences.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: CASINO-GAMING COMMISSION Gaming board won't probe allegations WATERTOWN, S.D. The South Dakota Gaming Commission says it can't investigate allegations against the chairman of the Sisseton- Wahpeton Oyate Tribe over a firing and alleged conflicts of interest.

Office of the Secretary Phone: 605/773-3265 FAX: 605/773-3921 Contact: Kristi Sandal, 605.773.7179 Pierre , S.D. David L. Huft, Program Manager for the Office of Research with the South Dakota Department of Transportation and James Keyes, former Executive Vice President of the Associated General Contractors of South Dakota , have been selected for ...

Officials say deaths have occurred in Minnehaha and Pennington counties. The Health Department does not name victims of the H1N1 virus because of privacy rules.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: BEATING DEATH SUSPECT Hearing held on rights of suspect in beating death SIOUX FALLS, S.D. A judge is considering whether a North African man accused of beating his girlfriend to death with a pipe waived his rights in confessing to the beating.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: STIMULUS JOBS Report says stimulus helped SD teachers, workers PIERRE, S.D. State government's first report for the economic stimulus package says the federal program has created or saved the equivalent of 1,407 full-time jobs so far in South Dakota.

South Dakota school districts can apply for a second round of federal grants to help replace old buses or place emission controls on existing buses.

In a release, the SBA says the loans are to offset economic losses caused by the combined effects of severe storms, flooding and grasshopper infestations this year.

Members of the South Dakota Arts Council, the governing board of the Office of Arts, will gather in Pierre Oct.

A sea of orange at the Cabela's store in Mitchell today as hunter's got their last few needs before hitting the fields.

For Immediate Release: Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 Contact: Wanda Goodman, 605-773-3301 or wanda.goodman@state.sd.us PIERRE, S.D. - Pheasants have thrived in South Dakota for more than a century, and with this year's traditional season opener just around the corner the state is preparing to greet outdoorsmen and women from around the globe for ...

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: JACKLEY-ATTORNEY GENERAL Jackley announces he will run for attorney general PIERRE, S.D. Marty Jackley, who was recently appointed to be South Dakota attorney general, has formed a campaign committee to seek his own four-year term in the office in next year's election.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 10/15/2009 10:01 AM First blogs beat up the newspapers; will Web TV kill KELO next? Yankton 'Net maven Ben Hanten is busy innovating again.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 CONTACT : Mary Stadick Smith, 773-7228, mary.stadicksmith@state.sd.us South Dakota students fare well on Nation's Report Card PIERRE, S.D. South Dakota's 8th-grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress ranked among some of the highest in the nation in 2009.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: SIOUX FALLS-HOUSING Sioux Falls to explore affordable housing SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Sioux Falls officials are to work out details of an affordable housing project this week.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press YALE, S.D. The South Dakota Highway Patrol has identified a man killed in a crash west of Yale as 23-year-old Shawn Michael Baye of Huron.

An Internet security company says South Dakota has gone from having a high rate of e-mail spam to being 1 of the least spammed states.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: SWINE Flu Second H1N1 flu death reported PIERRE, S.D. The state Health Department says South Dakota has recorded its second swine flu death.

The IRS wants you to know about a phony e-mail about under-reported income that the agency said is being used in a "phishing" scam to gain access to personal information.

A judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by four American Indian tribes from South Dakota and Nebraska in an attempt to stop construction of the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline.

Opponents then filed the lawsuit asking the judge to place the measure on the ballot.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press BATH, S.D. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says his agency will decide soon whether to approve a request for disaster declarations for counties in the northeast part of South Dakota hurt by spring flooding.

South Dakota has received a $910,000 federal grant to upgrade 911 emergency communications services.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says his agency will decide soon whether to approve a request for disaster declarations for counties in the northeast part of South Dakota hurt by spring flooding.

South Dakota's lieutenant governor has formally entered the race seeking the Republican nomination for governor.

Once the power was cut and spring thaw arrived, nature took over. And enough rotting meat to fill a high school gym did exactly what you'd expect: It stank.

State Representative Paul Dennert of Columbia says he thinks South Dakota likely will get serious in talking about whether it needs six public universities in 2012.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, October 02, 2009 CONTACT : Laurie Gill, 773-3361 South Dakota reports first H1N1 death PIERRE, S.D. South Dakota has its first death from H1N1 influenza, the Department of Health reports today.

Yankton's 7.1 percent unemployment was the highest among South Dakota's largest cities in August.

Mike Rounds to reconsider the decision. The 15 driver's licensing stations were closed as part of a plan to reallocate staff to busier stations in cities such as Sioux Falls and Rapid City.

South Dakota's public university system today reported record enrollment for the 12th consecutive year.

Posted by: David Newquist - 09/30/2009 9:31 PM Cut taxes, close the universities Talk is going around again about closing a South Dakota university.