ABERDEEN, S.D.(Press Release) – Award recipients for several individual and business awards presented by the Aberdeen Area Chamber of Commerce were announced at the 31st Annual ABBY Awards held on Friday, April 4th during the event at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel and Convention Center. Awards presented this year and the recipients were: Chamber Rockstar… Read more »
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SDDOT’s plan to limit fatalies on South Dakota highways
PIERRE, S.D.(KCCR)- Over 35-hundred South Dakotan have been killed on South Dakota roads over the last five years. Highway Safety Engineer Dustin Witt with the South Dakota Department of Transportation says lane departures and curves accounted for most of those. Witt says multiple focus areas can compound on each other as shown in the Department’s… Read more »
City of Aberdeen to sewer smoke testing starting Monday
ABERDEEN, S.D.(Press Release)- The City of Aberdeen Public Works Department will be conducting sanitary sewer smoke testing beginning at 8:00 am Monday, April 7, 2025 in the following area: Kline St. From 1st Ave. NE to 5th Ave. NE 5th Ave. NE to N. Dakota St. & Dakota St. From 5th Ave. NE to 1st… Read more »
Sioux Falls police respond to stabbing incident
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELOLAND) — A large police presence gathered at an apartment complex at South Larch and 43rd Street and southwestern Sioux Falls after a man was stabbed early Friday morning. During Friday’s police briefing, spokesperson Sam Clemens said the 45-year-old victim was found in an apartment hallway with stab wounds. He was given… Read more »
Name released in fatal crash east of Milbank
MILBANK, S.D.- One woman died and another was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash two miles east of Milbank, SD Tuesday morning. Preliminary crash information indicates Diane Kay Schultz, the driver of a 2007 Toyota Corolla, was traveling westbound on US Highway 12 and lost control of the vehicle, entering the eastbound lane. At the same time, Darrell… Read more »
Sobriety checkpoints for the month of April
PIERRE, S.D.(Press Release) – The South Dakota Highway Patrol has announced sobriety checkpoints will be conducted in 14 different counties during the month of April. These checkpoints will take place in the counties of Beadle, Bennett, Brule, Butte, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Hughes, Meade, Minnehaha, Moody, Pennington, and Walworth. The monthly checkpoints are designed to encourage… Read more »
Northern State University’s annual spring plant sale on Thursday, April 10th
ABERDEEN, S.D.(Press Release) – Northern State University will hold its annual spring plant sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 10. The sale, which is open to the public, will take place in MeWaldt-Jensen Room 144B, the classroom attached to the MJ greenhouse. Plants available at the sale will include succulents, geraniums, bulbs and more.… Read more »
Severe Weather Preparedness Week begins Monday
ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- Severe Weather Preparedness Week get underway starting Monday. NWS meteorologist Steve Fleegel offers tips to brace the for the weather coming up in the spring & summer months. Fleegel talks about new terms being used to address the heat similar to what was used for the bitter cold temperatures in the winter. Fleegel… Read more »
Republicans in D.C. attempt to make 2017 tax cuts permanent
WASHINGTON, D.C.(KELO)- Senator John Thune says he and his colleagues are ready to make tax relief passed in 2017 permanent. The lower rates included in that package are set to expire soon. Senator Thune says that would be a big financial hit to moderate-income families. Thune says the Senate will take up a budget resolution… Read more »
Project Prison Reset in Sioux Falls Thursday
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.(KELO)- Area residents are lined up to give their input on the state’s plans for a new men’s prison. Governor Larry Rhoden’s “Project Prison Reset” Task force is receiving public comments Thursday. Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken started things off, saying it’s long past the time to take action…and noting that many parolees… Read more »