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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (WNAX) – While new COVID-19 infection numbers in South Dakota are slowing down, hospitals are still close to capacity. Dr Michael Elliott, Medical Director at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, says their numbers are very high. Elliot says many of the COVID patients need long term care. Elliot says they are… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D. (WNAX) – South Dakota schools have had to meet accountability rules for teacher pay for the past four years. Those rules and teacher pay increases came from recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Task Force in 2015. Cody Stoeser, the director of Finance and Management for the Department of Education, updated the Interim Joint… Read more »
FORT PIERRE, S.D. (KCCR) – The Fort Pierre City Council has filled the Ward III Council seat being vacated by Mike Weisgram. Fort Pierre Mayor Gloria Hanson made the announcement. She says Seiler has a wealth of experience with the city including prior time on the Council. The appointment of Seiler to the Fort Pierre… Read more »
BROOKINGS, S.D. (Press Release) – A 31-year-old Brookings man has died of injuries sustained in a one-vehicle crash that occurred early Saturday morning north of Brookings. A 2004 Ford F-150 pickup was northbound on 470th Avenue when the driver lost control. The vehicle went into the east ditch, went back across the roadway and into… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D. (From American News Staff Reports) – Gov. Kristi Noem has proposed spending $4 million in state money to replace the Elm Lake dam. She made the proposal in her annual budget address Tuesday afternoon in Pierre. Elm Lake is the source to about one-third of Aberdeen’s drinking water, the governor said. She said… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – The state’s COVID-19 numbers did not alter much according to totals released by the South Dakota Department of Health today. The state had 539 new confirmed cases and 568 recoveries, lowering the amount of active infections by 29 to 16,783. Hospitalizations were down by 12 and there was one new COVID-releated… Read more »
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A mask mandate drew a capacity crowd to Rapid City Hall where public comment and debate on the proposed ordinance for nearly two and a-half hours. In the end, the City Council voted to table the mask ordinance Monday night. Mayor Steve Allender cast the tie-breaking vote to effectively kill… Read more »
ABERDEEN, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – The Annual Battle of the Badges blood drives takes place this week at City Lights in Aberdeen. Bailey Gemar, Donor Recruitment Representative with Vitalant, provides the details of the event which pits Aberdeen Law vs. Aberdeen Fire in a friendly competition. She said that blood is always needed at this time… Read more »
STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — After operating without incident for five years, a Sturgis gun store has been burglarized for the second time in two months. Police said in a release that Sturgis Guns was broken into at 4:21 a.m. on Sunday. Authorities arrived to find a a broken side window and learned that nine rifles,… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNAX) – South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says President-elect Joe Biden will have to take the Senate in consideration when he makes selections for his cabinet. Rounds says a Republican Senate won’t be willing to go along with liberal cabinet picks. Rounds says the Senate elections in Georgia next month will be critical… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D. (KCCR) – The Hughes County Commission continues moving toward looking at new space to facilitate Circuit court operations in the County. Hughes County has looked at sites for new buildings or additions at the Courthouse site in Pierre and near the Hughes County Courthouse in east Pierre. Loren Schafer with Broz Engineering of… Read more »
ABERDEEN, S.D. (By Elisa Sand esand@aberdeennews.com) – With $6.39 million in federal COVID-19 relief funding covering personnel expenses for public safety employees, Aberdeen officials have outlined a plan for the use of resulting unspent city funds. That money can be spent on unbudgeted COVID-19 expenses and budgeted public safety personnel expenses, according to city council meeting… Read more »
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – A string of fires kept Rapid City firefighters busy early Sunday morning, though a suspicious pattern quickly emerged after four of the five blazes happened within one mile radius of one another, and appear to have been human-caused. Tessa (Yea-Ger) Jaeger, public information officer for RCFD, said the fires started… Read more »
OMAHA, Neb. (WNAX) – Following the floods of 2011 in the Missouri River basin, state and federal officials asked the Corps of Engineers to develop and install a snowpack monitoring system across the plains. Kevin Grode with the Corps office in Omaha says they are making progress on the planning and development. Grode says they… Read more »
NEW HOLLAND, S.D. (WNAX) – South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has proposed merging the Department of Environment and Natural Resources into the state Ag Department and would call it the Department of Ag & Natural Resources. The incoming Chairman of the House Ag & Natural Resources Committee, Representative Marty Overweg of New Holland, says he… Read more »
