SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota Public Utilities Chairman Chris Nelson says state regulators need better tools to detect a grain buyer’s deteriorating financial condition, after farmers in the Dakotas lost $4 million selling sunflowers to Anderson Seed Co. The PUC is proposing a new law requiring grain buyers to provide a current...

FORT PIERRE, S.D. – (DRG News) A Fort Pierre man was sentenced yesterday for his guilty plea to Aggravated Assault-Domestic Violence. 39-year-old Ronald Lee Berens, Jr. initially faced six charges after authorities said he shot a rifle at his girlfriend on April 29. In a Fort Pierre courtroom yesterday, Berens was given a sentence...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Hot weather that blanketed North Dakota and South Dakota led to some weather records. The National Weather Service says several cities in the western Dakotas set high temperature records on Tuesday, from Dickinson in North Dakota to East Rapid City in South Dakota. Temperatures were in the 90s and...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – Sixteen South Dakota teens are attending a Youth Trooper Academy this week put on by the Highway Patrol and American Legion of South Dakota. The one-week academy geared to kids aged 16 and 17 runs through Friday afternoon at the South Dakota Law Enforcement Training Academy in Pierre. Maj. Dana...