PIERRE, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – The state saw an increase of 257 active COVID cases, two new hospitalizations and three new deaths in numbers released by the South Dakota Department of Health today. The deaths occured in Day, Fall River and Hutchinson counties and increase the overall COVID-related death total to 946. South Dakota had 564… Read more »
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Avera Health designates Home for Hope as Giving Tuesday project
ABERDEEN, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – Avera Health has a designated project for this year’s Giving Tuesday event. Amy Blackstone, Director of the Avera Foundation in Aberdeen, provides the details. She said that the Home for Hope helps individuals in multiple ways. Those wishing to donate can use the foundation’s website or call Blackstone. She said the… Read more »
Community foundations supporting Giving Tuesday
ABERDEEN, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday and the South Dakota Community Foundation would like to remind people to give to their favorite charities. Pat Gallagher, Community Development Director with the foundation, talked about the event. He said that the Aberdeen Area Community Foundation is also involved in the process. Gallagher said there is… Read more »
Officials expect COVID cases to rise following drive-through testing
PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – State health officials expect positive Covid-19 cases to rise again following several rounds of drive through testing. South Dakota Health Department Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon says people seem to be following public health guidelines. Malsam-Rysdon says they know people are tired of the pandemic restrictions. Malsam-Rysdon says they are concerned about positive… Read more »
Man charged in fatal Rapid City shooting of 19-year-old
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Rapid City man has been charged in a fatal shooting at a mobile home in the city. The Rapid City Journal reports 43-year-old Jason Ray Sharp is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Ocean Sun Eberlein of Rapid City. The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office said… Read more »
Dakota Energy Cooperative files papers to leave East River Electric
HURON, S.D. (WNAX) – Dakota Energy Cooperative, based in Huron, has filed legal documents to begin the process of leaving their parent cooperative, East River Electric. A statement from the cooperative points to rising electricity costs as the reason for the move. Chris Studer, with East River Electric, says the members came together many years… Read more »
Conde man identified in fatal crash southeast of Conde
CONDE, S.D. (Press Release) – A 22-year-old Conde, S.D. man has been identified as the person who died early Wednesday morning in a one-vehicle crash southeast of Conde. A 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup was westbound on South Dakota Highway 20. The vehicle went into the north ditch, back across the roadway and into the… Read more »
COIVD changing way police departments operate
WATERTOWN, S.D. (KWAT) — One of the challenges for police departments this year has been keeping their officers healthy in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. And it’s changed the way they operate. Watertown Police Chief Lee McPeek explains. Officers try to limit close face-to-face contact as much as they can. McPeek says the… Read more »
Transportation Department waiting on federal highway funding
PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – The next round of economic stimulus is not the only important piece of federal spending hung up in Washington. South Dakota interim Transportation Department Secretary Joel Jundt told the Transportation Commission that they are waiting on the states federal highway funding. Jundt says a full federal budget out to next October… Read more »
Helmsley Charitable Trust trying to help fill health care gap
PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – The COVID-19 pandemic is showing the gaps in health care especially in rural areas. Telehealth is an option to help close that gap, but broadband coverage is another issue facing those rural areas. Walter Panzirer, trustee for the Helmsley Charitable Trust, says they want to help fill that gap. Panzirer says… Read more »