GETTYSBURG, S.D. (KCCR) – A Pierre native has been named Administrator for the Avera Gettysburg Hospital. Kristi Livermont says she has experience working with Avera properties in Mitchell as an Administrative Fellow. Livermont’s excited to get in at Avera Gettysburg Hospital as a new facility is being constructed. Livermont says work on the Avera Missouri… Read more »
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Traffic down, rate of speed up in South Dakota
PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – The South Dakota Department of Transportation has reported that traffic on state highways is down about 40 percent, mostly due to the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The Highway Patrol is also reporting that total speeding tickets are down 53 percent from mid-March to early May compared to last year. Assistant… Read more »
Legislators facing some difficult decisions on budget
YANKTON, S.D. (WNAX) – While states sales taxes for March in South Dakota were up 4.5 percent over last year, other revenues tumbled as the pandemic took hold. Total tax revenues to the state were down about $30 million dollars in April over a year ago. Representative Jean Hunhoff of Yankton says legislators will have… Read more »
State shows slight increase in unemployment claims
PIERRE, S.D. (DRG News) – A total of 5,389 South Dakotans filed their first weekly claim for unemployment benefits last week (April 19-25). State Sec. of Labor and Regulation Marcia Hultman says it was only 94 claims over the prior week’s total (5,295). Hultman says as of April 11, over 19,500 (19,664) continued claims by… Read more »
First half of federal money has arrived
CANTON, S.D. (WNAX) – The Executive Board of the South Dakota legislature got an update on federal funding coming to the state due to the coronavirus pandemic. Senator Jim Bolin of Canton says Auditor General Marty Guindon (gwin-don) told them the first half of the federal money is in the bank. Bolin says federal rules… Read more »
Lack of broadband access still an issue in rural America
CONDE, S.D. (WNAX) – The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting the lack of broadband access in rural America. South Dakota Farmers Union President Doug Sombke says with social distancing and students needing to go on-line for their education that access is becoming more critical and in some areas of South Dakota it isn’t available at all.… Read more »
Authorities identify human remains found on Rapid City golf course
RAPID CITY, S.D. (Argus Leader) — Authorities have identified the human remains found recently near a creek on a golf course in Rapid City. Police say the remains are those of a woman who disappeared in 2015. Malinda Ader was 35 when she went missing. A grounds keeper at the Rapid City Elks Golf Course… Read more »
Noem signs bills worth more than $6 million into law
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has signed legislation that will kick in over $6.4 million to state programs including a new radio system for first responders and several new programs at state universities. The biggest-ticket item was $5.1 million to upgrade the radio system used by police, firefighters and other… Read more »
Noem won’t veto hemp legislation provided ‘guardrails’ met
PIERRE, S.D. (KJJQ) – As recently as late last year, Governor Kristi Noem continued to say she would veto any bill legalizing hemp production that hit her desk. That changed Thursday as the governor issued a video that proposes a path forward for legalizing industrial hemp. Noem says things have changed. Noem says she won’t… Read more »
New Year’s Holiday Garbage Change
ABERDEEN, S.D. (Press Release) – Due to the New Year’s holiday observance on Wednesday, January 1st, city garbage and recycling pick-up will change. Residents who normally have their garbage and recycling collected on Wednesday are to have it out by 8 a.m. on Thursday, January 2nd. Both Wednesday’s and Thursday’s garbage and recycling will be… Read more »