Rapid City Journal photo PRINGLE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota judge has ordered a secretive polygamous sect to sell it’s compound in the Black Hills to pay for a lawsuit settlement. Court documents show that a South Dakota sheriff has been ordered to sell the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ property… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says she is ready to work with the Biden Administration but wants to clear up doubts about the election process. She says she has been clear about the election and the results. Noem says there are still doubts about the election in many states. Noem campaigned… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNAX) – South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson is wading into the debate over making the District of Columbia a state. Congressional Democrats plan to introduce a statehood bill. Johnson says there are people in the District that don’t have representation in Congress. Johnson says he is proposing moving parts of the District into… Read more »

PIERRE, SD(WNAX)- A task force is working through the details of a bill passed by the South Dakota legislature last year. SB-55 mandated that the Board of Regents study their business and financial practices and come up with a report by November of this year. Regents Executive Director Brian Maher says he clearly heard the question. Maher says the task force meets again this spring. Maher appeared before the legislatures Joint Committee on Appropriations.  

YANKTON, S.D. (WNAX) – The rate of positive Covid-19 infections has trailed off across the region and state over the past few weeks. In mid-November, Yankton County was seeing over 100 new infections a day with total active cases over 600 at the peak. The Yankton City Commission passed a face mask mandate in early… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (KJJQ) – The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee gave its approval to a bill that would provide $5 million for a small meat processors grant program. Lt. Governor Larry Rhoden testified in favor of the bill, brought by the Department of Agriculture. He says they were working on this before the pandemic.… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has refused to acknowledge that Democrat Joe Biden defeated her close Republican ally Donald Trump in a free and fair election. In her first public comments specifically addressing the election results since Congress certified Biden’s victory hours after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S.… Read more »

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The search for a 9-year-old girl missing for nearly two years has finally come to an end in western South Dakota. The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday the search for Serenity Dennard who ran away from a children’s home in Rockerville involved more than 1,500 people from 66 different… Read more »