PIERRE, S.D. (KCCR) – Passengers boarding SkyWest Airlines planes at Pierre Regional Airport in 2019 reach nearly 15,000 and that was with only eight and a half months of actual service. Pierre City Commissioner and airport liaison Jamie Huizenga says December enplanements were the best in nearly 40 years. Air service didn’t return to Pierre… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (DRG News) – Among the issues lawmakers will deal with when South Dakota’s 95th Legislative Session starts Tuesday is Gov. Kristi Noem’s FY2021 budget proposal which gives no funding increase for education or state employees. District 24 senator Jeff Monroe (of Pierre) thinks those areas will see more money come their way. Representative… Read more »

NEW HOLLAND, S.D. (WNAX) – South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem made a couple of appointments to the legislature in District 19 this week. Representative Kyle Schoenfish (shane-fish) of Scotland was named to the vacant Senate seat and then Marty Overweg of New Holland was named to fill the House seat. Overweg says ag issues are… Read more »

WASHINGTON, S.D. (WNAX) – Iran struck back at the U.S. last night by firing a number of missiles at two Iraqi bases which house American soldiers. South Dakota Senator John Thune says every one is waiting now on the reaction from President Trump. Thune says there is always the danger of unintended consequences. Thune says… Read more »

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) – The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe is asking for federal help in dealing with methamphetamine use on the reservation that he says has contributed to homicides. In a proclamation declaring a state of emergency, Julian Bear Runner says families on the Pine Ridge Reservation are living in a constant… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission has given a wind developer more time to install noise controls on a project in the northeast part of the state. Crowned Ridge asked for the waiver last month after they said weather prevented them from modifying blades before they are installed. The company had… Read more »

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) – Officials say they fear the two men missing on the Pine Ridge Reservation may have died of exposure. Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Emergency Management director Steve Wilson says 23-year-old Robert “RJ” Kills Enemy Jr. and 25-year-old Vincent Steve Little Dog are presumed dead. Wilson says the men have not… Read more »

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Police say a woman abducted in Sioux Falls has been found dead. The body of Pasqalina Esen Badi was found Monday afternoon along a road just outside the Sioux Falls city limits. Police said Tuesday that a 19-year-old man who was identified as a “person of interest” in Badi’s abduction… Read more »

YANKTON, S.D. (DRG News) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers isn’t likely to accommodate a request to marginally increase releases from Gavins Point Dam at Yankton this winter. South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds and Gov. Kristi Noem say the increase would create additional storage to hold the anticipated much higher than normal amount of… Read more »

VERMILLION, S.D. (WNAX) – South Dakota’s university campuses have become the focus of freedom of speech and first amendment rights. The legislature last year passed a law setting out how the universities have to monitor free speech and make a report each year on those efforts. Neil Fulton is Dean of the Law School at… Read more »