PIERRE, (KCCR) --- Three South Dakota students were honored recently for their work in helping to commemorate America's 250th Birthday including an elementary school student from Pierre. Freedom 250 and the National Endowment for the Humanities honored regional, People's Choice and National Winner during a special cere...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Despite no rain and high temperatures drought is marginally improving this week across the state. That doesn't mean it's increase everywhere. Areas of no drought this week expanded four-percent to 17-percent, while abnormally dry areas fell four-percent to 82-percent. Moderate, severe and extreme drou...

PIERRE, (KCCR) --- The federal Bureau of Land Management has implemented Stage Two Fire Restrictions on B-L-M lands in Haakon, Stanley and Ziebach Counties. Also included in the Stage Two restrictions are B-L-M land in Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and Perkins Counties. The restriction...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The final bits of pavement are being applied this week to Euclid Avenue. T-J Gallagher with Morris Incorporated says work on the two-year project is advancing toward it's interim completion date ahead of schedule... Significant traffic change information is ahead in the next two weeks and residents ar...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Pierre City Commission is back to full strength after the swearing in Tuesday night of Shawn Lewis to fill a vacant seat on the Commission... Lewis will serve as Commission until next year where he can then decided to run for the seat or step aside. He joins wife Jessica Lewis as an elected or app...

The Oahe Zap would be looking for the four game sweep of the Spearfish Sasquatch on Wednesday, but the Sasquatch found its groove offensively turning up a 19-0 win to salvage a game in the series. After Oahe outscored Spearfish 25-7 in the first three games of the series, Spearfish was determined to not be swept and pu...

The South Dakota United U16 Soccer squad will be in Denver, Colorado beginning next week competing at the National Cup in the Premier Division with three guaranteed games as six members come from the Pierre Governors. Aubrey Fischer, Brittany Sargent, Cameron Larson, Josephine Wurtz, Myah Fravel and goalie Emyln Swanso...

It was the first time since 1997 when Stanley County was at the state basketball tournament until 2026. Now, as the senior class graduated and the loss of significant players on the floor, Stanley County is not looking at this as a rebuild, but a reload. All-State player Eddie Duffy is the only member returning from la...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Murray State University and Tennessee State University will tip off the men's college basketball season at the Sanford Pentagon on Monday, Nov. 2. The game will be one of two mid-major matchups at Heritage Court as part of the Field of 68 Opening Day Marathon, which returns to Sioux Falls for the th...

The Oahe Zap would storm out to a doubleheader sweep of the Spearfish Sasquatch on Tuesday outscoring Spearfish 23-7 winning the first game 13-3 and then winning 10-4 in the second game moving to a game and a half behind the Casper Spuds. Its three straight wins against the Sasquatch and the Zap have won five of the la...

President Donald Trump is reviewing a wider range of military options against Iran as tensions remain high across the region. CNN reports that the dis...

President Donald Trump has dropped a proposal to charge a 20% fee on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The plan had been presented as a way ...

New military action between the United States and Iran has intensified concerns about a wider regional conflict. CNN's live coverage said U.S. forces ...

England's latest World Cup failure shows how far the county that invented soccer still lags behind the true title contenders.

Lionel Messi didn't let Argentina and England confronting each other stop him from celebrating advancing to the World Cup final.

As baseball's second half kicks off, we pick our frontrunners to win MLB's major awards for 2026.