SIOUX FALLS, S.D.(KELO)- Home prices and interest rates have both moved sharply higher. Bender Commercial Real Estate President Reggie Kuiper (KIGH-per) says that’s pushing the home ownership part of the American dream out of reach for Generation Z. The average home price across the country is now 400-thousand dollars. Student  Loan debt is also at… Read more »

WATERTOWN, S.D.(KWAT)–There were no injuries Sunday afternoon when a single-engine plane crashed at Watertown Regional Airport. There were two people on board. They were an aviation student from Lake Area Technical College (LATC), and a flight instructor from LATC. The school’s president, Tiffany Sanderson, says the student was practicing touch and go landings when the… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- The third and final cracker barrel session was held Saturday at the Kessler’s Champions Room inside the Barnett Center on the campus of NSU.  The main focus of questioning from the audience dealt with pipeline related topics. Representative J.D. Wangsness of Miller address his decision not to calendar HB1219 which dealt with no… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- At the third and final Leglislative Coffee(Cracker Barrel), Senator Bryan Breitling of Miller provided an update on some of the appropriation bills that was making it way through various appropriation committees. Breitling discuss the water projects that are still very much in play. Breitling provide update on the funding for both the mens… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(Aberdeen Insider)- A request for more money to build a new dam at Richmond Lake has cleared a big hurdle. Senate Bill 70 was approved by the Joint Appropriations Committee 18-0 on Friday, Feb. 23. It still has to pass the full House and Senate before getting to the the desk of Gov. Kristi Noem. Noem, however,… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (SDBA) — What to do about Lake Hiddenwood State Recreation Area north of Selby in north central South Dakota? That was one of the topics the Joint Appropriations Committee dealt with Friday. However, the committee decided not to provide any additional funding for the state recreation area despite a contingent of supporters coming to… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(SDBA) – Sen. Jim Mehlhaff’s original effort to allow the governor to pick their lieutenant governor without input from a partisan convention was hijacked by Senate leadership. When they asked him to relinquish his prime sponsorship of the bill, he declined. That decision paid off Friday, as Mehlhaff was successful in steering the bill… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- 2024 South Dakota legislative session has been addressing a number of bills dealing with the issue of landowner’s property rights in regard to the CO2 pipeline.  Spink County landowner Ed Fischbach & McPherson County landowner Mark Lapka discussed what the legislature has done so far in 2024. Several landowner related bills have been… Read more »

WATERTOWN, S.D.(KWAT)–After well over a decade of conversations about location, cost, and how to pay for it, Watertown finally opens its new ice arena Thursday night. The $36.5 million Prairie Lakes Ice Arena is located north of Hobby Lobby in a largely undeveloped area on Watertown’s east side. Scott Gloe (gloh) is the arena manager,… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (SDBA) — Foreign nationals and the governments of six “rogue” nations would be banned from purchasing agricultural land under a measure passed by a Senate committee Thursday. The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee passed HB1231 6 to 0. The bill also fixes a loophole in a 1979 law that allowed foreign corporations… Read more »