Articles by J.P. Skelly

It’s been a long time-coming. The Mitchell Fire Department recently took delivery of a new UTV which Fire Chief Dan Pollreisz says is an important tool for the department and the community. “The whole idea [Read More…]

South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry president, and longtime legislative lobbyist, David Owen stopped in Mitchell recently for a post-legislative briefing. He believes addressing property tax relief was the most significant issue where lawmakers [Read More…]

A 55 year old woman from Springfield has pleaded guilty to four forgery-related charges connected to crimes committed while she was an employee of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety and performing contract work [Read More…]

South Dakota News Watch BOX ELDER, S.D. – Montana Roem is worried that a proposed $1 billion cut to federal food programs that aid schools and charities will hurt her family on two fronts. As [Read More…]

Mitchell fire investigators are working to determine the cause of a fire that heavily damaged a two-story house in the 500 block of East Second Avenue Saturday night. Fire investigator Shannon Sandoval says a neighbor [Read More…]

A former state Department of Social Services employee was found guilty Thursday of stealing an estimated $1.8 million in state and federal funds from the department’s Child Protection Services. 68 year old Lonna Carroll of [Read More…]

The South Dakota Board of Regents announced the state’s public university system will implement a 2.9% tuition increase at nearly all of their institutions for the upcoming academic year—after remaining nearly flat for the last [Read More…]

Beginning on Monday, April 14, 2025, traffic on S.D. Highway 37 will be detoured onto Minnesota Street and 23rd Avenue, north of Mitchell. This planned detour will be in effect for two weeks to allow [Read More…]

A 22-year-old woman from Highmore died Wednesday morning in a single vehicle crash on SD Highway 14, one mile west of Wessington. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety is reporting around 9:30, the driver [Read More…]

One woman died and another was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash two miles east of Milbank, SD Tuesday morning. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety reported around 10:30 am, the 61 year old [Read More…]

Attorney General Marty Jackley says the identities have been confirmed of the two bodies recovered last Friday at the scene of a Wessington Springs house fire. 51 year old Michial Brodkorb and 45 year old [Read More…]

Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier has ruled that the state’s lawsuit against the NCAA should be heard in South Dakota circuit court and not federal court as requested by [Read More…]

Vehicle Vandalism In the early morning hours of March 14th, 2025 three unknown individuals vandalized a vehicle in the 400 of South Minnesota by slashing the tires and adding a substance to the gas tank.  [Read More…]

Fourteen year old Amanuel Gemechis of George S. Mickelson Middle School in Brookings recently won the South Dakota State Spelling Bee at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell. South Dakota Education Secretary Joe Graves was on [Read More…]

Carson Walker-South Dakota News Watch Amanuel Gemechis, a 14-year-old student at George S. Mickelson Middle School in Brookings, will represent South Dakota in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington. The eighth-grader out-spelled 27 [Read More…]

The Attorney General’s Office is confirming two bodies have been recovered at the scene of a house fire in Wessington Springs. The fire was reported at 11:30 p.m. Thursday at a home located in Wessington [Read More…]