Recent hail storms on both sides of South Dakota were some of the worst in years, according to meteorologists and insurance officials. A Saturday night storm caused heavy damage to trees, homes and cars in Sioux Falls, and was one …
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded the city of Sioux Falls $4.9 million to help pay for cleaning up debris from an April ice storm. The funds will reimburse the city for the …
State Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota judges are generally upholding a state law that says anyone driving a vehicle is considered to have given consent to the testing of the amount of alcohol in that person’s blood. The …
Rapid City,S.D., officials say they’re in no hurry to join seven of the largest cities in South Dakota that have passed laws that prohibit texting when driving. The Rapid City Journal reports that South Dakota is one of nine states …
The South Dakota Supreme Court says a Sioux Falls company does not have to pay worker’s compensation insurance benefits to the estate of an employee who was shot and killed by her estranged husband in the company’s parking lot. Thirty-eight-year-old …
An insurance company is suing a former South Dakota legislator to recover nearly $10,000 in medical expenses over a mishap during a parade. The Daily Republic reports that State Farm Insurance is suing 65-year-old Edwin W. Olson, of Mitchell, for …
Officials are cleaning up after storm damage at the South Dakota State Fairgrounds in Huron. Fair Manager Jerome Hertel tells KOKK radio that severe weather that hit the region last Friday night downed trees and a livestock barn on the …
The pressure drop ahead of a tornado that destroyed the tiny South Dakota town of Manchester 10 years ago remains the largest ever recorded. As the half-mile-wide twister approached the prairie community on June 24, 2003, the air pressure dropped …
A Nebraska couple accused of burning down a restaurant they owned in South Dakota to collect insurance money has been convicted of felony arson and reckless burning after a weeklong trial. Attorney General Marty Jackley says a jury in Bon …
The Sioux Falls City Council is taking $8 million from the South Dakota city’s reserve fund to cover most of the cost of cleaning up from a three-day snow and ice storm in April, while officials debate whether to accept …