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January 18, 2022

South Dakota PUC taking over the Farmers Cooperative Elevator in Avon

AVON, S.D.(WNAX)- The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission was appointed as the receiver of the Farmers Cooperative Elevator in Avon last July after the elevator lost its bond. Cody Chambliss, PUC grain warehouse manager, told the commission they have made progress in paying most of the producers that sold grain to the elevator. Chambliss says… Read more »

January 18, 2022

Housing to be a major issue at this years legislative session

PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- Developing and building workforce housing will be a major issue in this year’s South Dakota legislature. Representative Roger Chase of Huron chaired a summer study committee last year that examined the issue. Last week he appeared before the Senate Commerce and Energy Committee. He says Governor Kristi Noem’s plan to spend two hundred… Read more »

January 18, 2022

Summit Carbon Solutions testified before SD Senate Committee last week

PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- Summit Carbon Solutions, based in Iowa, wants to build a pipeline to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota to underground storage in North Dakota. Jake Ketzner, vice president of governmental affairs for Summit Carbon Solutions, appeared in front of the South Dakota Senate Commerce and Energy… Read more »

January 17, 2022

House Select Committee meeting Monday on the impeachment trial of Jason Ravnsborg

PIERRE, S.D.(KYNT)- The probe intensifies Monday by the panel determining whether to recommend that the House consider impeachment of state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg regarding the crash that killed pedestrian Joe Boever. The House Select Committee on Investigation begins taking testimony from South and North Dakota law enforcement officials and a Jackson, Wyoming crash reconstructionist. Committee… Read more »

January 17, 2022

Congressman Johnson call for party to move on from the 2020 elections

WASHINGTON, D.C.(WNAX)- A recent ABC News poll found that over seventy five percent of republicans still have doubts about the validity of the 2020 Presidential election. South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson says he hears about that too. Johnson says a number of states are making election law changes. Johnson says the 2020 election was not… Read more »

January 17, 2022

Inflation’s impact on the US economy explained

WASHINGTON, D.C.(WNAX)- The recent report on the US economy shows inflation rising to at least seven percent, with prices rises on everything from gas to groceries. David Chicoine, former President at South Dakota State University, says it appears the Federal Reserve Board wasn’t prepared for the report. Chicoine, a former economics professor, says people had… Read more »

January 17, 2022

Governor Noem discuss mental health care facilities

YANKTON, S.D.(WNAX)- The South Dakota Department of Social Services is making plans to limit patient capacity at the Human Services Center in Yankton at two hundred and open regional behavioral health treatment centers around the state. Governor Kristi Noem says they are working with a model center in Rapid City. Noem says the Human Services… Read more »

January 17, 2022

Senate bill to eliminate the bingo tax clear the chamber

PIERRE, S.D.(KCCR)- It’s the odd tax that gained notoriety during Governor Kristi Noem’s State of the State address last week. To kill the bingo tax; introduce Senate Bill 37, which in addition to removing a tax on bingo would eliminate licensing fees associated with bingo gaming. Those taxes and fees are in addition to any… Read more »

January 14, 2022

Snow Removal Alert Issued for Aberdeen

A SNOW REMOVAL ALERT HAS BEEN ISSUED IN THE CITY OF ABERDEEN • Plowing in the COMMERCIAL ZONE (Zone 1) will begin at 10 PM, ON Friday, January 14, 2022. • Plowing on POSTED EMERGENCY SNOW ROUTES will begin at 6 AM, ON Saturday, January 15, 2022. • Plowing on NORTH-SOUTH STREETS in Zone 2… Read more »