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Elite Eight Academic Award Winners
The recipients of the KORN News Radio/Q107.3/KORN Country 92.1 Elite 8 Academic Award presented by Poet have been announced. The eight boys and eight girls along with an edited narrative are listed below in alphabetical [Read More…]

Rapid City police: Altercation over debt turns deadly
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — An altercation over a debt has turned deadly in Rapid City, according to police. Officers responded to an alley about 8:30 p.m. Friday where they found a man with a [Read More…]

Woman given 8 years in Porcupine teen’s overdose death
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a woman to eight years in prison for providing the fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a 16-year-old Porcupine boy. Tarriah Provost, 24, earlier [Read More…]

Air Force preparing Ellsworth air show after 7-year hiatus
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Military officials are preparing to put on an air show at Ellsworth Air Force Base for the first time in seven years. The Rapid City Journal reported Friday that the Ellsworth [Read More…]

Prosecutors weigh death penalty in shooting that killed 3
TYNDALL, S.D. (AP) — Prosecutors are weighing whether to pursue the death penalty for a Scotland man if he’s convicted of shooting five people, including three fatally, in Bon Homme County. Francis Lange, 42, is [Read More…]

Iowa lawmakers OK bill mandating sale of E15 at gas stations
s DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa would become the first state in the nation to require that gas stations have pumps selling fuel with at least 15% ethanol under a bill that received final [Read More…]

Hy-Vee seeks to move corporate workers to retail
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hy-Vee will ask up to 500 of its employees to move from corporate-level jobs to retail positions at its stores, it said in a public statement. The move comes [Read More…]

Man who drove drunk in fatal crash given 6 years in prison
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Bismarck man has been ordered to serve six years in prison for a 2021 New Year’s Day crash that killed a South Dakota woman. Kenyon Eagle, 20, pleaded guilty in [Read More…]

Wagner woman pleads guilty in connection with son’s death
LAKE ANDES, S.D. (AP) — A Wagner woman has pleaded guilty to felony child abuse in connection with the death of her 2-year-old son. Twenty-seven-year-old Calarina Drapeaux agreed to a plea deal and appeared in [Read More…]

South Dakota Senate approves 2-day impeachment trial for AG
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Senate on Tuesday approved the rules for an impeachment trial of the state’s attorney general for his conduct surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash, laying out a [Read More…]

2022 Mitchell Kernels football schedule released
The 2022 Mitchell Kernels football schedule has been released, highlighted by five of Mitchell’s nine regular season games at home, including a first time homecoming matchup with Sioux Falls Jefferson. Mitchell is coming off a [Read More…]

Wildfires tear across several states, driven by high winds
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters across the country are battling multiple wildfires as tinder-dry conditions and high winds whip up flames from Arizona to Florida — including a prairie fire in rural southwestern Nebraska that [Read More…]

Grassland group: Ranchers need a plan to deal with drought
SIOUX FALLS, S.D (AP) — Ranchers say moisture from recent scattered rains are a welcome addition but nowhere near the amount needed to get South Dakota pastures back on track for normal production. The South [Read More…]

2022 Elite Eight Boys Athletes of the Year
19th Annual Elite Eight Athletes of the Year Award – Brought to you by: POET and made possible by KORN News Radio, Q107-3 and KORN Country 92-1 Athletes must be a Junior or a Senior, [Read More…]

2022 Elite Eight Girls Athletes of the Year
19th Annual Elite Eight Athletes of the Year Award – Brought to you by: POET and made possible by KORN News Radio, Q107-3 and KORN Country 92-1 Athletes must be a Junior or a Senior, [Read More…]

Sioux Falls VA Healthcare leader reassigned amid complaints
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The director of the Sioux Falls VA Healthcare System has been reassigned following a multitude of complaints about mismanagement. The VA’s Midwest region director Robert McDivitt said Lisa Simoneau will [Read More…]

Appeals ruling protects pristine areas of the Badlands
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that dismisses a lawsuit brought by the state of North Dakota and several western counties that could have resulted in the construction of [Read More…]

Blizzard prompts drop in North Dakota’s oil production
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota officials estimated that last week’s blizzard caused the state’s daily oil output to drop by 25%. North Dakota Pipeline Authority Director Justin Kringstad told the Bismarck Tribune that wintry weather expected [Read More…]

Police in Minnesota say man killed 4 relatives, self
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A man killed his aunt and uncle, two young cousins and their dog while they slept, then later killed himself at their Minnesota home after posting on Facebook that he had [Read More…]

Ethics complaints against Noem to be discussed in May
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A board that investigates complaints against South Dakota officials is scheduled to take up a pair of ethics complaints against Gov. Kristi Noem in May. Noem had until last Friday to [Read More…]
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