A controlled burn is being done Thursday (April 3, 2025) at the Farm Island State Recreation Area just east of Pierre. If you see smoke in that director, there's no need for concern.

Over the next six months, the United States Justice Department is rotating 60 Federal Bureau of Investigation employees through 10 different Field Offices to help address unresolved violent crimes in ...

April 3, 2025: The United States Department of Transportation has awarded SkyWest (April 1, 2025) the next Essential Air Service contract for the Pierre Regional Airport. They will take over operation...

March 31, 2025: The Fort Pierre Chamber of Commerce is hosting a city council candidate forum Thursday at 5:30pm (April 3, 2025) at the Quentin Sutley Senior Center in Fort Pierre. Ward II incumbent C...

If you're a baseball fan, you may have heard the talk about this new bat that has crept into the MLB, but is now not so subtly exploding across the league. The new bat is known as the Torpedo bat (also called a bowling pin bat, but torpedo sounds cooler), and it gets the name because it is literally shaped like both of...

INTERLEAGUE Final Texas 1 Cincinnati 0 Final Pittsburgh 4 Tampa Bay 2 Final St. Louis 12 L.A. Angels 5 Final Milwaukee 3 Kansas City 2 Final Toronto 4 Washington 2 Final Chicago Cubs 10 Athletics 2 Final San Diego 5 Cleveland 2 Final San Francisco 6 Houston 3 Final Arizona 4 N.Y. Yankees 3 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Min...

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Final OT N-Y Rangers 5 Minnesota 4 Final Carolina 5 Washington 1 Final Toronto 3 Florida 2 Final SO Colorado 3 Chicago 2 Final Seattle 5 Vancouver 0 Today's games: Boston at Montreal 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at Ottawa 6 p.m. Colorado at Columbus 6:30 p.m. Nashville at Dallas 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Loui...

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Final Indiana 119 Charlotte 105 Final Cleveland 124 New York 105 Final Washington 116 Sacramento 111 Final Miami 124 Boston 103 Final Houston 143 Utah 105 Final Dallas 120 Atlanta 118 Final San Antonio 113 Denver 106 Final Oklahoma City 119 Detroit 103 Final L.A. Clippers 114 New Orleans...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Shohei Ohtani met the moment again, and his latest theatrics have the Los Angeles Dodgers perfect to start the season. The Japanese superstar hit a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning on his bobblehead night, lifting the Dodgers over the winless Atlanta Braves 6-5 on Wednesday. "If I didn't...

What a turnaround for the Twins. Starting the season off 0-4 and putting an unsettling feeling in Twins fans all over, but getting off the mat and winning back-to-back before heading home. The Twins d...

NEW YORK (AP) - Vincent Trocheck scored at 24 seconds of overtime to give the New York Rangers a 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday night. Trocheck slid the puck past goalie Filip Gustav...

April 01, 2025 Thank you, Mitchell, for an amazing 40th State Basketball Tournament The following note, which was e-mailed to the State Office, touched us deeply. Thank you, Trent, for these beautiful...

The Stanley County Buffaloes will see yet another improvement to their sporting facilities when they break ground on a brand new Track & Field Complex at the football field tomorrow. After the con...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Commissioners in a rural New Mexico county say pets are being snatched from front yards and livestock are being maimed and killed by endangered Mexican gray wolves that seem t...

A coalition of U.S. oil and biofuel groups met with the Environmental Protection Agency this week to push for higher federal mandates for biomass diesel blending. Three sources familiar with the plans...

Farmers would suffer if the U.S. government granted a petition to place anti-dumping and countervailing duties on imports of the herbicide 2,4-D. The president of the National Corn Growers Association...

April 3, 2025: The 97th Annual South Dakota State FFA Convention begins today and runs through Saturday (April 3-5, 2025), at the Dacotah Bank Center and South Dakota State University's campus in Bro...