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A 44 year old man from Summerset man died Wednesday in a single-motorcycle crash near Black Hawk. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety reported around 7am, the driver of a 2010 Triumph motorcycle was [Read More…]

The former Mitchell High School is no more. “There are no walls standing, so everything that we have now is at grade or under the ground.” Superintendent Joe Childs said. However, there’s still work to [Read More…]

Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota will receive a minimum of $52,612,676 as its share in a landmark $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. It is one of the largest state consumer [Read More…]

Mitchell Technical College Culinary Arts student Jake Toben of Sioux Falls has  been selected as one of twenty students nationwide to receive the $20,000 US Foods Scholars Award, a highly competitive national scholarship recognizing promising [Read More…]

67 years ago a Corn Palace Festival tradition began. “In 1959, the Woolworth’s Five and Dime expanded and took over more of the building and so then for Corn Palace Week, their grand opening was [Read More…]

The South Dakota Department of Corrections is reporting the death of an inmate. 66 year old Benny Laible died at the Jameson Prison in Sioux Falls on Tuesday August 25. At the time of his [Read More…]

A woman from Pierre has been sentenced to a 10-year suspended prison term after earlier pleading guilty to one felony count of Grand Theft. She had been charged with defrauding the South Dakota Medicaid Program [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has established a minimum reward of $25,000 in cases where people went missing or were killed in Indian Country, part of a broader effort to [Read More…]

Mitchell Technical College opened its fall semester on Monday. “Our enrollment looks strong,” said MTC president Theresa Kriese. “We should have a good count at the end of next week. We usually wait for the [Read More…]

The Mitchell School Board took a deep dive into policy series 1000-1200 as part of its annual review. Superintendent Joe Childs says it’s critical for the board to stay up to date on policies. “There’s [Read More…]

For high school students who aren’t thriving in a traditional classroom, a South Dakota school district is trying a different approach. Gold Prospect Academy is a new alternative high school in the Lead-Deadwood school district [Read More…]

Codington County has pulled the plug on its four Flock License Plate Reader cameras in the county due to repeated vandalism. Sheriff Brad Howell says the County Highway Department was removing the fourth and final [Read More…]

A federal court jury has convicted a 41 year old man from Pine Ridge of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance following a three-day jury trial in federal district court in Rapid City. The verdict [Read More…]

Pennington County residents haven’t been able to access some services since a cyberattack knocked out county computer systems in July. The water system in Rapid City, which is part of Pennington County, was among the [Read More…]

The 2026-2027 school year for Mitchell public schools is off and running. “Kicked off the first day with our after-school program as well,” said Superintendent Joe Childs. “So we’ve been pretty excited about that. I’ve [Read More…]

A 39 year old man from Parker is sitting in a federal prison following a sentencing hearing earlier this week. The U-S Attorney’s Office is reporting Michael Sherard was sentenced to 27 months in federal [Read More…]

The Brown County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported paraglider accident northeast of Aberdeen Wednesday. According to a news release, sheriff deputies, the Frederick Fire Department, Aberdeen Medics, Careflight and the South Dakota highway patrol [Read More…]

DAV (Disabled American Veterans) is a nonprofit charity that provides a lifetime of support for veterans of all generations and their families, helping more than 1 million veterans in positive, life-changing ways each year. One [Read More…]

Two people died early Monday morning in a two-vehicle crash on I-90 near Bridgewater. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety reported around 1:20 am, 53 year old Derrick Jason Brousseau from Pacolet, South Carolina [Read More…]

President Trump late Tuesday night announced the United States had agreed to delay placing a 50% tariff on $20-billion dollars of certain Canadian products. Senator Mike Rounds called it a work in progress. “This is [Read More…]