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WATERTOWN, S.D. (KXLG) – An event to honor the work of those on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19 in being planned all across South Dakota. Between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Friday May 1, South Dakota residents are being encouraged to go outside and “Let It Shine.” What initially began as… Read more »
ABERDEEN, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – Safe Harbor of Aberdeen has produced a pair of displays to help bring awareness to abuse. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month. For the second year in a row, Safe Harbor has a display of bluejeans on the overpass on N. Second St. MacKenzie Gerth, Rural… Read more »
YANKTON, S.D. (WNAX) – The shutdown of the Smithfield Foods processing plant is an example of what needs to be done to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Dr. Mike Pietila with the Yankton Medical Clinic is also the head of the Intensive Care Unit at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital. Pietila says the focus now… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNAX) – South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds is one of several Senators asking for an investigation into livestock prices. Rounds says he asked for an investigation a few weeks ago. Rounds says no matter the results of the investigation, there needs to be changes in how livestock are marketed. Rounds says he asked… Read more »
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KBHB) — The lead doctor on coronavirus matters at Sanford Health says that COVID-19 patients in the state can now have access to the drug Hydroxychloroquine, as part of a first-in-the-nation effectiveness study. Doctor Allison Suttle talked with reporters Monday about the enormous task researchers face as they start to tackle a… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D. (DRG News) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released videos providing updates on the status of mountain snowpack, a runoff forecast for the year and planned operations for the runoff year for the Missouri River Mainstem System. The four videos share information normally presented at the Corps’ annual spring public meetings… Read more »
McLAUGHLIN, S.D. (Rapid City Journal) — A family of five on the Standing Rock Reservation has been living in a car and floating among relatives after a small South Dakota town shut off the utilities at their trailer home. The mayor of McLaughlin, Arnold Schott, said there was no choice because the town wouldn’t be… Read more »
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KBHB) — Rapid City Police arrested a 37-year-old Rapid City woman, after a wild and dangerous high-speed chase through town in pursuit of a stolen vehicle this morning. Police got the report of a stolen vehicle sighted on Atlas Street just before 8 a.m., and found a woman asleep behind the wheel… Read more »
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KBHB) — The South Dakota Department of Health says today that the number of positive cases of coronavirus has increased by 138 since Sunday. There are 868 positive tests for COVID-19 as of today, with 44 total hospitalizations so far, 207 people recovering, and more than 81-hundred testing negative. Minnehaha County has… Read more »
ABERDEEN, S.D. (Press Release) – Beginning at approximately 8 a.m. on Tuesday, April 14, water will be off in the following areas to install a water main: Intersection of South 16th St. and Sixth Ave. S.W. going west to City Limits The Public Works Department suggests that residents in the affected area collect and store… Read more »
ABERDEEN, S.D. (HubCityRadio.com) – Gov. Kristi Noem will have a press conference at 11 this morning. The event will be carried live across all Hub City Radio stations. The link to the press conference is: Facebook.com/govnoem There will not be a media availability conference call today.
ABERDEEN, S.D. (Press Release) – When high school students needed to learn from home this spring, the state Department of Education turned to the pioneer of distance education in South Dakota for help: the Center for Statewide E-Learning at Northern State University. The NSU E-Learning Center responded, making coursework in mathematics, science, English and social… Read more »
SPEARFISH, S.D. (Press Release) – A Spearfish, S.D., man has been identified as the person who died Thursday morning in a one-vehicle crash east of Spearfish. A 2000 Ford F350 pickup was westbound on Interstate 90 when the vehicle went off the road to the right, collided with a guardrail and entered the north ditch… Read more »
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Officials say a Whitewood police officer shot a man who began fighting and resisting arrest at a gas station. Authorities say the 40-year-old man was taken to a Rapid City hospital Friday with serious but non-life threatening injuries. Whitewood Police Chief Paul Witcraft says said the man began resisting and… Read more »
CHANCELLOR, S.D. (Press release) – A Chancellor, S.D. man has been identified as the person who died Wednesday morning in a one-vehicle crash south of Chancellor. A 2004 Dodge Durango was northbound on 461st Avenue when the vehicle went off the roadway, into the ditch and rolled. The driver, 56-year-old Tony Kenyon, was not wearing… Read more »
