News

Recent vandalism at the pool in Emery…could have shut it down for the summer. On Sunday morning, the pool crew discovered a major feature of the pool was heavily damaged. Kyle Beach is the Mayor [Read More…]

The Hughes County Commission is considering how to move forward regarding Senate Bill 96.  The measure would give a half-cent sales tax option to counties for the reduction in property taxes on owner-occupied homes.  South [Read More…]

The South Dakota Hall of Fame is honored to have been awarded a Community Impact Grant from POET, the world’s largest producer of biofuel and a global leader in sustainable bioproducts. The POET Community Impact [Read More…]

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is planning to build a $4.6 million outpatient behavioral health treatment facility, expanding access for the Sicangu Lakota Oyate to community-led mental health, suicide prevention, crisis intervention and substance use treatment [Read More…]

Davison County Commissioners have unanimously approved Sheriff Steve Harr’s request for adding a new deputy. There are currently eight deputies on staff with the last patrol deputy added in 2021. Harr says calls for service [Read More…]

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety has released the name of a male driver who died last Friday as a result of a single vehicle crash in Charles Mix County. Around 12:40 pm, 56 [Read More…]

Two Yankton County residents were recently sentenced to prison on felony drug charges. The Yankton County States Attorney’s Office reported 35 year old Tyler Lee, Sr was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for [Read More…]

To construct an alley or not to construct an alley, and who pays for it?  That was the question that dominated discussion during Monday’s Mitchell City Council meeting. The council hosted a public hearing regarding [Read More…]

South Dakota, federal and state authorities are seeking the public’s help in locating Benjermin Kelley (alias Benjamin Kelley) of the Sioux Falls and Madison area. He’s a non-compliant sex offender whose whereabouts have been unknown [Read More…]

FEMA announced the approval of more than $750,000 in post-disaster funding for Public Assistance projects across South Dakota state, city, and county departments. This program empowers states, local communities, tribes and territories to recover and [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight-John Hult The number of people granted discretionary parole by the South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles has fallen by 17% over the last two years, according to data shared at a [Read More…]

Eleven teams vied for top honors during Sunday’s Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo chili-cook-off at Stampede Park. Committee chairman Stan Peterson says most of the teams are repeat competitors. “They have fun, that’s what it’s all [Read More…]

The Exchange Club of Mitchell was awarded the NATIONAL C.A.R.E. AWARD during the National Exchange Convention in Omaha, Nebraska recently.  C.A.R.E. stands for Child Abuse Reduction Effort. Each year, the National Exchange Club presents a [Read More…]

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety has released the names of those involved in a fatal vehicle-pedestrian crash on Wednesday night, July 15th in Day County. Preliminary crash information indicates 51 year old Timothy [Read More…]

David Volk, 79, of Mitchell, SD, passed away Friday, July 17, 2026, at Veterans Affairs Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD. Private burial was held at Servicemen’s Memorial Cemetery in Mitchell. David Lawrence Volk was born [Read More…]

It was a long, hard-fought battle, but Sioux Falls now has a new Mayor. Christine Erickson took the oath office Friday afternoon, replacing Paul TenHaken, who served for the past eight years. She becomes the [Read More…]

The state of South Dakota has received a permanent injunction and been awarded civil penalties and attorney’s fees totaling $34,579 against Jack C. Yedid, co-owner of Advanced Resources LLC, which did business in South Dakota [Read More…]

It was a successful joint operation carried out with surgical precision. That’s how city, state and federal law enforcement described a three-day Homeland Security Taskforce effort carried out in the Sioux Falls area this past [Read More…]