Articles by Travis Kriens

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities have recorded four fatalities during this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The rally began Aug. 6 and concludes Sunday. The state Department of Safety said two deaths occurred on Saturday, the Rapid [Read More…]

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — Data from the South Dakota Highway Patrol shows arrests for drugs and drunken driving are down at this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally compared to last year. According to the Highway Patrol, [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 30 months in a federal prison for assaulting a driver who had crashed into his front yard and later died. The U.S. Attorney’s [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s cities fueled the state’s population growth over the last decade, according to detailed population data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau that will form the basis for the state’s [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Friday announced the retirement of a Cabinet secretary who she suspended amid an investigation into complaints of low employee morale and sexual harassment at [Read More…]

No racial or ethnic group dominates for those under age 18, and white people declined in numbers for the first time on record in the overall U.S. population as the Hispanic and Asian populations boomed [Read More…]

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — The landscape appears to be changing when it comes to marijuana possession at this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. Meade County Sheriff Ron Merwin says his deputies are generally [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The widow of a man struck and killed on a South Dakota highway by the state’s attorney general is attempting to block the release of her husband’s mental health records. A [Read More…]

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old Minnesota man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a 2019 homicide in eastern South Dakota. Clay County, Minnesota, Sheriff Mark Empting says the Moorhead man is being [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Coronavirus cases in South Dakota more than doubled in the last week, health authorities reported Wednesday, as hospitalizations also saw a large jump in people with COVID-19. The Department of [Read More…]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — People in the Pacific Northwest braced for another major, multiday heat wave starting Wednesday, just over a month after record-shattering hot weather killed hundreds of the region’s most vulnerable people when [Read More…]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Fred swirled toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Wednesday, with forecasters warning that heavy rains could cause dangerous flooding and mudslides. After a quiet month of [Read More…]