Category Archives: Local News

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Lake Oahe is rapidly becoming home to more and more multi-day fishing tournaments and you can add another during the final weekend of July. Miranda Panzer with the Pierre Area Chambe...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Progress continues to be made in rebuilding Euclid Avenue and the utilities underneath it. T-J Gallagher with Morris Incorporated says getting Sioux Avenue reopened with utilities co...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Pierre police are investigating a shooting that has left a 14 year-old Fort Pierre male dead. Pierre Police Captain Dusty Pelle says officers were called to a shooting incident in th...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- As construction of the new John C. Waldron Memorial Bridge winds down, temporary changes are coming to the way pedestrians move along and specifically under the new river crossing. P...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- A Pierre man, found guilty by a Hughes County jury earlier this year, will now spend the rest of his life in prison. South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says 25 year-old Davi...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- A freak microburst caused damage around Pierre Monday night. Mike Connelly at the National Weather Service in Aberdeen says conditions over Pierre were just right for destructive win...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Hughes County Commission has adopted newer building codes for construction within the County. Building Official Eric Booth says the updated codes reflect codes as of 2021 which h...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Pierre City Commission is meeting tonight at the Pierre Municipal Building. The Commission will consider approval of a brief two-item consent calendar containing only the usual c...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- City of Pierre officials are preparing for another project at Pierre Regional Airport. City Engineer Nick Waters says they are looking to improve more taxiways for aircraft at the ai...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Army Corps of Engineers last week reported June runoff into the Missouri River was 60-percent of average. Lisa Holts with the Missouri Basin River Forecast Center says drought co...