ABERDEEN, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – Nationally and International recognized artist Judy Thompson will be featured at the Presentation College Wein Gallery through May. Thompson, who paints people and places of the Great Plains, will lecture from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday, April 1 in the Southeast Building Lecture Hall. Her exhibit is called, Prairie Gleanings: Watercolors… Read more »

FORT PIERRE, S.D. (DRG News) – A breech in the Quinn Dam in Pennington County has caused emergency officials to close Highway 14 between Wall and Philip and residents in the towns of Cottonwood and Quinn have been told to get to higher ground. Hughes and Stanley County emergency management director Rob Fines says that… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (Press Release) – Highway 14 has been reopened. Motorists are reminded there is still a flash flood warning in effect and should be aware of their surroundings and not drive through flood waters. Earlier on Tuesday officials with the South Dakota Department of Transportation closed Highway 14 between Exit 112 at Wall and Highway… Read more »

YANKTON, S.D. (WNAX) – The Corps of Engineers is attempting to balance the reservoirs on the Missouri River as snowmelt picks up. John Remus, Chief of the Water Management Division in Omaha, says inflows to Lake Oahe have increased considerably. Remus says the flows into Lewis & Clark Lake have also been consistently high. Remus… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WalletHub) – With Tax Day approaching, WalletHub today released its latest analysis of the U.S. tax landscape, an in-depth look at the states with the Best & Worst Taxpayer Return on Investment in 2019 as well as accompanying videos. WalletHub used 30 metrics to compare the quality and efficiency of state-government services across… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Authorities in South Dakota have recovered the bodies of two men who died when the garbage truck they were in went into a flooded river. The men drove the truck away from the Mitchell landfill on Thursday. They were reported missing Friday. Authorities began searching the James River in Sanborn County… Read more »

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — National American University is closing its Sioux Falls and Rapid City campuses as well as others as the school transitions to online classes. The for-profit university attributes the campus closures to a steep decline in revenue and shifting student preferences. NAU President Ronald Shape says the university leases all of… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – South Dakota legislators return to Pierre this Friday for the final day of the 2019 session. House Majority Leader Lee Qualm of Platte says so far they have a blank agenda. Qualm says they need to fill out the Executive Board before they can set interim study topics. Qualm says its… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNAX) – President Trump continues a string of twitter and personal attacks on former Senator John McCain, seven months after the Arizona Senator died. South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson says the country deserves better. Johnson says the President turns his attention on a dime. Johnson says the President can be difficult to work… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – The 2019 session of the South Dakota legislature saw a flurry of activity over industrial hemp. Bills authorizing its production passed both the House & Senate with healthy majorities before it was stopped by a veto from Governor Kristi Noem, which was upheld in the Senate. Long time lobbyist and legislative… Read more »