A rural fire department in the southeastern South Dakota town of Tabor is getting a used fire truck thanks to a $141,750 loan from United States Department of Agricultural Rural Development. The Tabor Rural Fire Protection District used the money …
Staff in South Dakota’s capital city have prioritized $7.2 million worth of flood recovery projects to be done over the next several years. KCCR radio reports that 34 projects in nine categories detail the work needed to repair infrastructure in …
The Army Corps of Engineers is accepting bids for a project to rebuild a flood-damaged causeway that connects the city of Pierre, S.D., to LaFromboise Island on the Missouri River. The corps says the causeway will be restored to how …
A secretary at South Dakota school who forged insurance paperwork to make false insurance claims for her son was ordered to pay $8,000 in fines and restitution. A prosecutor says Bernadette Soesbe altered chiropractic claim forms that had been filled …
The Dakotas are getting small a chunk of about $308 million in disaster assistance being provided to 33 states and Puerto Rico from U.S. Department of Agriculture emergency funds. North Dakota’s share is $100,000, and South Dakota’s is $396,000. The …
Fire has consumed an auto dealership in the southeastern South Dakota city of Wessington Springs. The blaze at Springs Auto Inc. on the city’s Main Street began about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. Firefighters were still battling flames five hours later. Resident …
A Labolt grain company is facing $95,000 in fines after federal investigators found more than a dozen safety violations. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the proposed penalties against LaBolt Farmers Grain Company Inc. on …
A pilot and three passengers killed in a plane crash apparently had tried to return to the Sioux Falls, S.D., airport after an air traffic controller said a plume of smoke was trailing their aircraft, federal investigators said in a …
A preliminary report suggests a student pilot who died in a crash at the Sturgis airport in western South Dakota apparently lost control of the Cessna single-engine plane. Fifty-seven-year-old Charlie Palmer of Dyersberg, Tenn., was practicing touch-and-go landings on Nov. …
A worker died at a manufacturing plant in the southeast South Dakota city of Canton when he became caught in a machine. Officials at Adams Thermal Systems Inc. did not immediately identify the man who died Monday morning or go …