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 »

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 »

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, 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(KELO)- The South Dakota Board of Regents approved a 2.9-percent tuition rate hike Thursday…after five consecutive years of holding tuition steady. Regents’ Executive Director Nathan Lukkes says it’s a delicate balance between affordability and maintaining quality programs for students. Regents President Tim Rave says South Dakota’s public universities are still among the most affordable… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C.(Press Release) — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) Thursday led a bipartisan group of their colleagues in asking President Trump to permitthe year-round sale of E15 fuel through the summer of 2025 in order to enhance America’s energy security and lower fuel costs for consumers while leveraging American agriculture. “To… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C.(KELO)- International farm goods now face stiff tariffs as they enter the U-S. President Trump imposed the tariffs, effective Wednesday. He says it’s an effort to level the playing field for the nation’s farmers. The President also says Europe bans most U-S poultry products, and Australia won’t accept U-S beef, while the U-S purchased… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)-  Kessler’s on their Facebook page announced Thursday that the grocery stores in Aberdeen & Miller will no longer be family owned by the end of April. Owner, Reed Kessler wrote that the business will be taken over by Coborn’s Inc. based on St Cloud, MN. Kessler wrote “This has been one of the… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(Press Release)- The Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen announce plans to create a beautiful outdoor green space for the public on a portion of its Presentation Heights property. The Sisters have made the decision to remove the main building, known as the Motherhouse (Presentation Convent main building), and create a natural space that promotes tranquility… Read more »