ABERDEEN, S.D.(Press Release) – The next Aberdeen EDGE event will be held on Thursday, November 17th from 5:30-7:00pm in the Teal Lounge at Dacotah Bank Stadium on the NSU Campus. EDGE stands for Explore. Discover. Gather. Engage. and is for early career professionals aged 21-40. The event is designed to help you meet some great people and enjoy… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- On Monday morning the Brown County Commission held a canvassing board meeting to certify the results of last Tuesday’s elections. Interim Brown County Auditor Lynn Heupel talked about the figures. Heupel broke down the exact number of votes taken same day & absentee. The two discrepancies involved absentee ballots, one with invalid siganature… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- Fifty-nine-point four percent of South Dakota registered voters cast a ballot in last week’s general election. Secretary of State Steve Barnett says that is about average. He says they saw a couple of factors that may have had an impact. Barnett says they have been working to make voters more aware of their… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(WNAX)- Economic development agencies used to focus on landing that next big manufacturing plant with hundreds of jobs. Mike Bockorny, Chair of the Aberdeen Development Corporation, says a lot has changed. Bockorny says development has to be more broad based. Bockorny says that is where the new “Economic Development Professionals Association” can help out.… Read more »

CANTON, S.D.(WNAX)- Veteran republican Senator Jim Bolin of Canton won re-election this week to his fourth term from District 16. He says this will be his last term in Pierre. Bolin says he wants to change committees in the upcoming session. Bolin says legislators will have a number of big issues to consider. Bolin, a… Read more »

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.(WNAX)- The South Dakota Board of Regents approved changes to their facilities in Sioux Falls, creating USD at Sioux Falls, with a new mission and classes. Jay Perry, the USD vice president who heads up the Sioux Falls campus was in front of the interim Appropriations Committee of the Legislature. He says they… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- Former U.S. Senate candidate Brian Bengs reflects on his campaign against the incumbent Senator John Thune & Libertarian candidate Tamara Lesnar. This was the first political campaign Bengs has done and as it turned out he was not quite as prepared as he thought he would be. Bengs talked about his travels across… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- Incumbent republican Public Utilities Commissioner Chris Nelson was easily re-elected to another six-year term with a sixty nine to thirty one percent margin over democrat Jeff Barth. Nelson says he spent a lot time on the road. Nelson says he had to explain to many voters how the PUC operates. Barth had made… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission will let utilities take the lead in electric vehicle policies. The federal government set up a requirement that each state decide on how to handle that technology. Commission Chairman Chris Nelson says there are lots of details with electric vehicles. Nelson says each utility has a unique… Read more »

STURGIS, S.D.(KBHB)  – The first reading of a shooting range ordinance was met with some suggestions from the public but in general, was viewed as a good start to establish a legal guideline through which shooting ranges can operate in the county. The Meade County Commission, at its Nov. 8 regular meeting, approved the first… Read more »