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(MITCHELL, S.D.) – The Mitchell Police Department is reporting that missing teenager Kiets Antelope was found deceased on Monday night, December 12. The 15-year-old Antelope was reported missing, last seen on Sunday, December 11 around [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Much of the central United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest was braced Tuesday for blizzard-like conditions, while states farther to the south saw tornadoes from a massive [Read More…]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Four new cases of bird flu at Iowa turkey farms in the past few days will push the number of birds slaughtered nationwide this month to limit the spread of the [Read More…]

HARRISBURG, S.D. (AP) — Two people have died and a third is seriously injured after a pickup truck collided with a train near Harrisburg, the South Dakota State Patrol said Thursday. The crash happened before [Read More…]

From the Mitchell School District: This morning (December 8th) at approximately 7:30 am, a Mitchell Middle School student, crossing Minnesota Ave. between 8th and 9th Street, was struck by a car. Police and ambulance services [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers can adorn their office with a crucifix, but they can’t pound the nail into the state Capitol’s wall, a legislative oversight board clarified on Tuesday as part [Read More…]

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Officials in Iowa are investigating the death of a police dog that was left in his handler’s truck for nearly 24 hours on a day when the temperature soared to nearly [Read More…]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis said Monday that it will toughen its trespassing policies as part of a settlement with the family of a boy who was severely injured when [Read More…]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed increasing the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the nation’s fuel supplies over the next three years, a move welcomed by renewable [Read More…]

Two people have been arrested in connection with burglaries in Brookings as well as Brandon and Elk Point. The Brookings burglaries occurred on November 11th. Video surveillance from local community members showed a maroon SUV [Read More…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged to give Native Americans a stronger voice in federal affairs, promising at the first in-person summit on tribal affairs in six years that he will bolster tribal consultations, [Read More…]

NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. –  A Vermillion woman has been identified as the person who died early Saturday morning, November 26th in a vehicle-pedestrian crash that occurred north of North Sioux City. Preliminary crash information [Read More…]

Seventeen South Dakota school districts will share over $3 million in federal Career and Technical Education grants. The Mitchell School District will receive $232,000. The Mitchell Career and Technical Education Academy will train students for [Read More…]

SALEM, S.D. –  The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) says work is nearing completion on the Interstate 90 reconstruction project from Salem to Humboldt. On Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, a significant traffic switch will [Read More…]

SCOTLAND, S.D. –  Names have been released of the two people who died last Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2002,  in a two-vehicle crash north of Scotland. Preliminary crash information indicates that a 2010 Kenworth T800 semi-truck [Read More…]