ABERDEEN, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – The Airport Travel Center was one of 12 locations selected from a pool of 1,500 applications to receive a Cenex Harvest States grant. Ron Erickson, Owner and Manager of the Airport Travel Center, talked about the process. The Hometown Pride initiative rewards communities with a $5,000 grant, which in this case… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – The new Superintendent of the South Dakota Highway Patrol says it takes a special person to be a state trooper. Colonel Rick Miller says they are looking for new recruits. Miller says they have openings they are trying to fill. The Patrol is offering a $5,000 hiring incentive to any certified… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – The South Dakota Legislature’s Interim Committee on Industrial Hemp held its first meeting in Pierre last week. South Dakota Farm Bureau Lobbyist Mike Held says committee members reported on their discussions with the state of Kentucky about their hemp program. He says the main market for industrial hemp in Kentucky is… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D. (Press Release) – The City of Aberdeen has scheduled a city wide spraying for Wednesday, July 17 between the hours of 8:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. If for some reason we are unable to spray Wednesday night because of inclement weather, we will go Thursday, July 18 between the hours of 8:30 p.m.… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (Press Release) – Governor Kristi Noem today announced that South Dakota closed the 2019 budget year on June 30 with a $19.4 million surplus. The state general fund budget ended with lower expenditures than budgeted, while ongoing revenue finished lower than projected levels. “In South Dakota, we don’t spend money we don’t have.… Read more »

  PIERRE, S.D. (DRG News) – Ten Navy sailors assigned to the USS SOUTH DAKOTA (SSN 790) submarine spent the night in Pierre Sunday night as part of the “USS SOUTH DAKOTA Ride Across South Dakota.” Commanding Officer Craig Litty says they arrived in the state Friday. Litty took command of the Virginia Class fast… Read more »

TEA, S.D. (Press Release) – A 74-year-old man died Sunday afternoon in a tractor crash northwest of Tea. The name of the deceased has not yet been released pending notification of family members. A 1930 Minneapolis-Moline tractor was mowing the ditches along the 269th Street. The tractor was eastbound in the north ditch when it… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (Press Release) – Farmers and ranchers, employees and self-employed individuals in 16 counties and reservations across South Dakota who are unable to work as a result of the severe winter storms and flooding from March 13 to April 26 may be eligible for disaster unemployment assistance. Funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WalletHub) – With workplace-related stress alone costing society more than $300 billion per year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Most & Least Stressed Cities in America as well as accompanying videos. In order to determine where Americans cope best with their stress, WalletHub compared more than 180 cities… Read more »

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Crews have recovered the body of a 23-year-old man from a submerged car in Rapid Creek in southwestern South Dakota. A passer-by alerted authorities about an upside-down vehicle in the creek Sunday morning. The Rapid City/Pennington County Water Rescue Team was dispatched and pulled the man from the car. No… Read more »

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a 12-year-old boy swept away in a drainage canal during flash flooding in Rapid City was able to free himself after the water carried him about five blocks. First responders were called to the canal Sunday afternoon after witnesses saw the boy in the fast-moving water created by… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – While the 2020 elections seem to be a long ways off, preparations are underway. South Dakota Secretary of State Steve Barnett says they have had meetings on election security. Barnett says most of the issues in the 2016 and 2018 elections were with misinformation, not direct attacks on the voting process.… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNAX) – South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds is again co-sponsoring a bill called the “RESPECT Act,” that would repeal a number of outdated laws related to the treatment of Native Americans. Rounds says it is not an attempt to rewrite history. Rounds says he first co-sponsored the bill in 2016. South Dakota Congressman… Read more »

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com)  — Smithfield Foods has donated $125,000 to fully fund the next Midwest Honor Flight for veterans to Washington, D.C. Honor flights take veterans, especially the oldtimers, to see the monuments in Washington that honor their service. For many, it’s their first trip to the Nation’s Capital. Vietnam Vet Jim Kortemeyer was… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (DRG News) – Nearly 2 tons of trash was picked up or removed from the water during the annual Missouri River – Lake Sharpe cleanup at Pierre and Fort Pierre last Wednesday evening. 98 volunteers — 11 boats and 10 land based crews — worked from just above Oahe Dam to Farm Island… Read more »