PIERRE, S.D. (DRG News) – The towns of Pierre, Sisseton and Wagner and former South Dakota Highway Patrol officer Adam Woxland have agreed to collectively pay a total of $440,000 in damages, legal costs and attorney’s fees from a case involving the use of forced catheterizations to obtain urine samples from suspects. A federal judge… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (KCCR) – August enplanement numbers at Pierre Regional Airport have been released and are slightly higher than July. August enplanements at Pierre Regional reached 504, four passengers more than July at an even 500. There were 228 in June, 127 in May and only 41 in April. Airport Liaison to the Pierre City… Read more »

YANKTON, S.D. (WNAX) – South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has moved to merge the state Ag Department with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, to create the new Department of Ag & Natural Resources. That issue came up in the recent District 18 Senate forum. Republican Representative Jean Hunhoff says there may be some… Read more »

BROOKINGS, S.D. (WNAX) – Dealing with stored grain pests can be a challenge for farmers in the Northern Plains. SDSU Extension Field Crop Entomologist Adam (vair-en-horst) Varenhorst says a good rule of thumb to follow is to not store grain for more than one year and to not store new grain on top of old… Read more »

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (WNAX) – The Environmental Protection Agency followed through with President Trump’s directive and denied the 67 gap small refiner waiver requests from the renewable fuel standard. American Coalition for Ethanol CEO Brian Jennings (of Sioux Falls) says denying those is what the law itself requires and what the 10th circuit court confirmed… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – A snake dropped by a bird was the culprit in a power outage on the north side of Aberdeen earlier this afternoon. Power was out for about an hour after a city substation was damaged, according to Tom Glanzer, Community Relations Manager with Northwestern Energy. He said it was a snake… Read more »

FORT PIERRE, S.D. (KCCR) – A Mni Wiconi Rural Water System trunk line through Fort Pierre is repaired, but city officials say a water restriction is still in place until further notice. Fort Pierre Mayor Gloria Hanson says crews worked long hours to get the leaky line fixed. The line feeds all of Fort Pierre’s… Read more »

MARTIN, S.D. (Press Release) – A Martin man has been identified as the person who died Saturday afternoon in a one-vehicle crash south of Martin. A 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup was southbound on South Dakota Highway 73 when the driver lost control. The vehicle eventually went into the east ditch and rolled. Kiel Cook,… Read more »

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Pennington County Sheriff’s Office officials say they’re arrested a South Dakota man accused of shooting one man and injuring another. Twenty-two-year-old Jamys Flying Horse, of Rapid City, was taken into custody about around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday on charges of first degree murder, attempted first degree murder and commission of felony… Read more »