News
BankWest awards 22 scholarships for 2024-25 school year; Many recipients attend central South Dakota schools
BankWest Chairman and CEO Charles H. Burke III recently announced the awarding of 22 BankWest Scholarships to students from across South Dakota for the 2024-25 school year. Students will each receive a $1,500 scholarship to pursue post-secondary education at a school of their choice. "Through our scholarship progr...
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Pierre-Fort Pierre Kiwanis Club awards scholarships to Stanley County seniors
MAY 14, 2024: The Pierre-Fort Pierre Kiwanis Club presented scholarships totaling $8,500 to six Stanley County High School seniors May 14, 2024, at the school's awards night. Luna Garcia was awarded both a $500 Don London Memorial Perkins Scholarship and a $750 award from the Minnesota-Dakotas Kiwanis Educational Found...
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Hayden Handcock named Pierre Market President for American Bank & Trust
Hayden Handcock has joined the American Bank & Trust team as the market president in Pierre. Handcock has over nine years of agriculture financial services experience. "I have spent my career in agriculture by supporting dreams in both community and fields," said Handcock. "My mission is to help supp...
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2024 June 4 Primary Election voter registration deadline is Monday at 5pm local time
If you aren't a registered voter in South Dakota but you want to cast a ballot in the June 4, 2024, Primary Election, you have until 5pm local time on Monday (May 20, 2024) to fill out a voter registration form. Secretary of State Monae Johnson says there are multiple places a person can go to fill out the registration...
May 17, 2024
Farm News
NASS releases 2022 Census of Agriculture Congressional District Profiles and Rankings for South Dakota, other states
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (May 15, 2024) released the Congressional District Profiles and Rankings from the 2022 Census of Agriculture. This summary presents data by congressional district from the 118th Congress that includes land, farms, market value of agric...
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Tick season has arrived. Protect yourself with these tips
FORT COLLINS, Colorado (AP) - Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers may be as plentiful as ever. That's because of a another mild winter and other favorable factors. Experts are mostly concerned about the increasingly common blacklegged tick, which spreads Lyme disease. Infec...
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Renewable Diesel Glut Hits Refiner Profits
U.S. fuel makers recently rushed to redo their production plants and make them capable of producing renewable diesel. Reuters says that rush has created an excess supply of the low-emissions biofuel that's shrinking refiner profit margins and threatening to slow or halt the development of what's still a young industry....
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SD Grassland Coalition, musicians team up to restore, improve grassland health
MAY 2024: An anthem to the heritage, beauty and diversity of Dakota's healthy grasslands, "Where Good Things Grow" recently won the Music Video of the Year Award at the Midwest Country Music Organization's annual awards show in Arnolds Park, Iowa. Earlier this year, the South Dakota Grassland Coalition partne...
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Regional News
Lakota student's feather plume was cut off her cap during commencement at a New Mexico high school
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - A Lakota student's traditional feather plume was cut off her graduation cap during her high school commencement ceremony this week in northwestern New Mexico. It was during the national anthem Monday night (May 13, 2024) when Farmington High School faculty members approached the student, Genesis...
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USD Department of Art Instructor Hosted Arts and Health Program at Mike Durfee State Prison
Ariadne Albright, an arts in health adjunct instructor in the University of South Dakota Department of Art, co-directed an arts and health program at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield. The program, I Believe II / The South Dakota Prison Project, was led by Albright and Suzanne Costello, director of the Stuart...
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Rapid City 5th Grader wins statewide Grandparent Essay Contest
AARP South Dakota is excited to congratulate our 2024 South Dakota Grandparent Essay Award Winner, Paisly Kading, a fifth grader from Rapid City. Paisly was recognized this week (May 15, 2024) at the South Dakota Retired School Personnel (SDRSP) Convention held in Watertown. She wrote her winning essay, The Kindest Hea...
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South Dakota Truck Driving Championships happening today in Sioux Falls
The South Dakota Trucking Association's Truck Driving Championships will take place today (May 18, 2024) at Southeast Technical College in Sioux Falls. This event aims to celebrate the unparalleled skill and dedication of truck drivers while promoting safety and excellence in the industry. Highlighting this year's cham...
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National / Business News
For decades, states have taken foster children's federal benefits. That's starting to change
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - States have for decades been using foster children's federal Social Security benefits to help cover the costs of state services. The practice has saved states millions of dollars. But that's beginning to change in some states under pressure from child advocates who contend it is immoral and d...
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US intelligence suggests American who vanished in Syria in 2017 has died, daughter says she was told
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials have developed highly credible intelligence suggesting that an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died. That word comes from the man's daughter. Maryam Kamalmaz said in an interview Saturday (May 18, 2024) with The Associated Press that during ...
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last pandas at any US zoo are expected to leave Atlanta for China this fall
MAY 17, 2024: ATLANTA (AP) - The last U.S. zoo with pandas in its care expects to say goodbye to the four giant bears this fall. Zoo Atlanta is making preparations to return panda parents Lun Lun and Yang Yang to China along with their American-born twins Ya Lun and Xi Lun, zoo officials said Friday (May 17, 2024). The...
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Less alcohol, or none at all, is one path to better health
UNDATED (AP)-Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart. But better research methods have thrown cold water on that idea. A growing number of public health experts say if you choose to drink alcohol, you should drink as little as possible. Guidelines vary from country to country but the overall t...
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Sports
Sioux Falls Lincoln easily earns 10th straight state tennis championship
RAPID CITY, S.D. - Sioux Falls Lincoln won four of the six singles titles and two of the three doubles titles to score 555.5 points en route to a commanding tenth straight state tennis tournament championship victory on Friday (May 17, 2024) in Rapid City. Rocky McKenzie of Lincoln won the number 1 singles title with a...
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Governor baseball takes game 1 in best of 3 series with Yankton with state tournament birth on the line
PIERRE, S.D. - The Pierre Governor High School baseball team recorded a 6-5 win over Yankton on Friday (May 17, 2024) in the opening game of the South Dakota High School Baseball post season. The Governors can clinch a spot in next week's State tournament with a win today over Yankton in the best of three Super Regiona...
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Central SD teams perform well at Last Chance Meet
MOBRIDGE, S.D. - Athletes from all pockets of the state ascended to north central South Dakota for Friday's (May 17, 2024) Last Chance Meet. In the boys standings, Mobridge-Pollock racked up 139 points. Lemmon (59) and Dupree (50) finished second and third, respectively. In the girls standings, Herreid/Selby Area poste...
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Scores from May 17, 2024
INTERLEAGUE Final Houston 5 Milwaukee 4 Final St. Louis 10 Boston 6 Final Detroit 13 Arizona 0 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Baltimore 9 Seattle 2 Final N.Y. Yankees 4 Chicago White Sox 2 Final Cleveland 3 Minnesota 2 Final Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 3 Final Kansas City 6 Oakland 2 Final L.A. Angels 9 Texas 3 ___ NATIONAL LEAGUE ...
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Pierre area bowlers earn championships at state bowling tournaments
State USBC Bowling Tournaments have recently wrapped up and several Pierre area bowlers have claimed first place honors in both the youth and adult ranks. The State Youth Tournament was held in Rapid City during the four weekends of April and a Pierre team consisting of Morgan Potter, Hailee Longbrake, Courtney Potter ...
May 17, 2024
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Ipswich wins both team titles at Super Region track and field meet Thursday
GETTYSBURG, S.D. - Ipswich captured team titles at Thursday's (May 16, 2024) Super Region track and field meet. The Ipswich girls finished with 110 points, ahead of James Valley Christian (104) and Potter County (98). The Ipswich boys scored 131 points, ahead of Timber Lake (85.5) and North Central (76). Potter County'...
May 17, 2024