Category Archives: Local News
Office Of Indigent Legal Services Handling 18 Cases Across South Dakota In Report To Commission
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Indigent Legal Services Commission met Monday as they continue to piece together what a state based public defender office looks like. Chief Public Defender Chris Miles says he c...
Jun 30, 2025
Harding Says Pierre With Adequate Funding To Fight Frequent Mosquitoes
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Officials with the City of Pierre have been receiving comments about a perceived lack of funding or mosquito mitigation given thick batches of skeeters that have invaded city skies. ...
Jun 30, 2025
Euclid Avenue Work Crews Beating The Rain To Stay On Time
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Despite rain delays in the first months of the job, the first part of the Euclid Avenue reconstruction project is nearly completion on time. Morris Incorporated Operations Manager T-...
Jun 29, 2025
USS Pierre Passes The Test
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Austal U-S-A, the Mobile, Alabama shipbuilder that constructed the U-S-S Pierre, officially announced Monday that Littoral Combat Ship-38 successfully completed its acceptance or sea...
Jun 28, 2025
Fort Thompson Man Sentenced For Role In Meth Distribution On Crow Creek, Lower Brule Reservations
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- A Fort Thompson man will spend time in federal prison for being involved in the distribution of methamphetamine across central South Dakota Native American reservations. U-S Attorney...
Jun 28, 2025
Pierre Woman Facing Grand Theft Charge For Allegedly Embezzling Over $45,000 From Community And Youth Involved Center In Fort Pierre
FORT PIERRE, (KCCR) -- A Pierre woman is facing charges in Stanley County for Grand Theft by Embezzlement. According to a probable cause affidavit on file in Stanley County, Division of Criminal Inves...
Jun 26, 2025
Hail Hunting Research Group Spends Night In Pierre Preparing For Friday Severe Weather
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- A group of meteorologists and scientists studying hail in severe thunderstorms made an overnight stop in Pierre Wednesday night. ICECHIP 2025 stands for In-situ Collaborative Experim...
Jun 26, 2025
Plans To Bring Passenger Rail Back Based In Need, Use Not Population
FORT PIERRE, (KCCR) -- A group of around 50 got more information about bringing Amtrak passenger rail service to South Dakota in the future. Dan Bilka with All Aboard Northwest has been touring South ...
Jun 26, 2025
Effort Continues To Rename Pierre Federal Building After Marcella LeBeau
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The push by South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds to honor an Eagle Butte woman continues. Rounds says legislation to rename the federal building in Pierre was introduced earlier this yea...
Jun 26, 2025
One Final Lane Change Coming To Sioux Avenue Before First Phases End
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- One final traffic pattern change is planned for Sioux Avenue before it will be open to traffic and back to normal use. Morris Incorporated Operations Manager T-J Gallagher says traff...
Jun 26, 2025
