Local News

Game, Fish And Parks Commission Approves Lease Amendment With City Of Fort Pierre
FORT PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission has approved an amendment to an agreement it has with the City of Fort Pierre. Sean Blanchette with the G-F-and-P says Fort Pierre's Missouri River shoreline is actually leased to the city by Game, Fish and Parks from the Corps of Engineers....
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Run To Raise Funds For Crisis Hotline Holding Special Meaning To Pierre Runner
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Pierre's Laura Ringling is training alongside 11 other South Dakotans preparing for the 2025 The 437 Project. The 437 Project is a cross-state run to raise funds for the Helpline Center and Nine-Eight-Eight Crisis Hotline which Ringling had a role in launching a few years back...
10h ago

Pierre School Board Approves Increases In Meal Rates For 2025-26 School Year
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Pierre School Board approved moving forward with increases in meal prices for the upcoming 2025-26 school year. Business Manager Travis Dovre says the prices proposed in May have not been changed for the final recommendation...
Milk prices will remain unchanged next school year. The meal pr...
11h ago

Active Weather Bringing Drought Reductions To South Dakota
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- An active weather pattern may be bringing severe weather to parts of South Dakota, but it is easing drought concerns in the state. Statewide, severe drought is unchanged at three-quarters of a percent, but moderate drought fell five-percent this week to 14-percent while abnormally dry areas fell nine-...
11h ago

Silver Spur Closes Wednesday For Clean Up After Small Fire
FORT PIERRE, (KCCR) -- A Fort Pierre restaurant is expected to reopen Thursday following a small fire Wednesday morning. Fort Pierre Volunteer Fire Department Chief John Luce says firefighters responded to the Silver Spur around 7:30 Wednesday morning for a storage room fire...
No one was injured and according t...
21h ago
Local Sports

Eights Host Watertown Friday, Travel to Jamestown Saturday
Pierre Post 8 will have two straight afternoon games starting this afternoon hosting Watertown Post 17 and then facing Jamestown and Detroit Lakes in Jamestown, North Dakota on Saturday.
Post 8 is coming into the weekend at 2-0 so far this week with wins over Rapid City Post 320, sweeping the Stars 9-6 and 9-4 with ...
1h ago

Memorial Scholarship Handed Out for Final Time
The Russ Snyder Memorial Scholarship would hand out it's final scholarship and bats after 25 years on Tuesday's Post 8 doubleheader giving the scholarship to Dawson Getz and a bat to each member of the baseball team.
The Russ Snyder Memorial scholarship was established in 2000 when the late Doctor Jim Trimble organi...
11h ago

Fifth Straight Win for Zap Beating Hastings
The Oahe Zap would power through a weather delay and hold on to beat the Hastings Sodbusters 7-3 Wednesday night in Pierre as the Zap have now won five straight.
Oahe has pulled back to within one game of .500 as Ty Farwell with two doubles and Vinci Pollizi with an extra base hit would lead the charge for the Zap a...
23h ago

Capital City Falls in State Tournament Opener
The Capital City Little League, hosting the state tournament at Griffin Park in Pierre, would fall in its first game of the tournament, 8-1 to Brandon Valley Wednesday evening.
Brandon Valley would get two runs in the top of the first and would hold serve until the top of the fourth when they would put up five runs ...
23h ago

Area Golfers Set for SDGA Match Play
Starting today and running through the weekend, both Men's and Women's Match Play Tournaments will take place at the Prairie Green Golf Course in Sioux Falls.
On the men's side, Lincoln Houska, Luke Olson, Sawyer Sonnenschein and Nick Bothun, four graduating Pierre Governors will compete as Jayce Pugh of Miller will...
Jul 10, 2025
National News
Today’s Headlines (07/10/25)
Rescue teams in Central Texas are still searching for over 170 missing individuals following devastating flash floods. The death toll has climbed to at least 120, with Kerr County being the most affected area. Despite warnings from the National Weather...
Jul 10, 2025
Today’s Headlines (07/09/25)
The Supreme Court granted President Trump temporary permission to proceed with his plans to implement reductions in force and reorganize federal agencies. The court issued an administrative stay in response to a ruling by a U.S. District who emphasized...
Jul 09, 2025
Today’s Headlines (07/08/25)
At least 95 people have died in central Texas due to flash floods, with Kerr County reporting 75 fatalities. Search efforts are ongoing for missing individuals, including 27 girls and staff from Camp Mystic. More storms are expected in the region, prom...
Jul 08, 2025
National Sports

Chargers RB Najee Harris Injured Eye In Fireworks Accident on Fourth of July
Najee Harris suffered a superficial eye injury during a Fourth of July fireworks incident that injured five people.
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Greed. Selfishness. Lack of Integrity. Big 12 Coaches Propose Change in NIL Era
Big 12 coaches sat in a roundtable setting, nodding in agreement that college athletics' NIL system is not just flawed, it's impossibly screwed up. FOX Sports' RJ Young details their proposed solution.
4h ago

Euro 2025: Norway Beats Iceland; Signe Gaupset Youngest to Score Twice
Signe Gaupset has become the youngest player to score twice in a Women's Euro, leading Norway to a 4-3 win over Iceland.
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