FORT PIERRE — The Fort Pierre City Council is meeting tonight at the South Dakota Municipal League Building in Fort Pierre tonight. The Council will consider approval of the agenda and declare any conflicts of interest before hearing from city officials. A public hearing will be held on a proposed all-season fish cleaning station and…… read more »
PIERRE — The South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a Pierre man’s request for parole from prison. Stanley County State’s Attorney Thomas P. Maher says the Board refused to grant parole for Paul Dean Jensen. Jensen was 14 year-old when he and another teenager, 16 year-old Shawn Springer, called for a cab…… read more »
PIERRE — A Harrold man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. U-S Attorney Alison Ramsdell says 31 year-old Richard Barela was given a 84-month federal sentence. Barela was serving time at the Yankton Community Work Center in January of 2020 on a Hughes County drug…… read more »
PIERRE — The Pierre School Board has approved a review of the Pierre School District’s Covid-19 Back to School plan. Superintendent Kelly Glodt says the plan hasn’t changed much… Glodt says the plan is flexible if needed… Board Chair Dan Cronin says the District has learned a lot with how do deal with Covid-19… Glodt…… read more »
PIERRE — Even with more beneficial rains, drought conditions got worse in some parts of South Dakota in the last week. Those rains missed parts of Ziebach and Haakon County where D-3 extreme drought is now being show, indicating the heart of the worst drought in the state. Heavy rains did pass through those areas…… read more »
PIERRE — Pheasant hunters had good luck last season in South Dakota, but numbers were down from two years ago. Chad Switzer, the Administrator of the Division of Wildlife, updated the Game, Fish and Parks Department Commission at their meeting last week… Switzer says they are seeing more hunter success through the entire season… Switzer…… read more »
PIERRE — Fireworks are returning to Pierre as a part of entertainment after Pierre Trapper baseball games. Pierre Fire Chief Ian Paul says the Trappers request is similar to previous years… The John Paul referred to is new Trappers General Manager John Hunt says who is a career broadcaster turned baseball guru… Hunt says he…… read more »
PIERRE — As the war in Ukraine rages on with no apparent ending in site many native Ukrainians in the United States are concerned about the state of their homeland. Nataliya Rezek of Pierre says without the military aide from NATO counties conditions could be far worse than what’s already been done… Rezek says Russian…… read more »
PIERRE — Law enforcement from across South Dakota marked National Police Week Wednesday with a wreath laying and memorial service in Pierre. At the Capitol Lake wreath laying ceremony, Sioux Falls Police Chief John Thum says two words govern the service of law enforcement… Across the street from the Capitol complex at Lutheran Memorial Church…… read more »
PIERRE — The City of Pierre is trying again to line up a much needed rehabilitation of a runway at Pierre Regional Airport. City Engineer John Childs told the Pierre City Commission Tuesday the project will narrow up the crosswind runway… Childs says they want to bid the project now, but have it done next…… read more »
