Category Archives: News Pierre
2023 Missouri River Cleanup around Pierre and Fort Pierre clears over a ton of stuff out of the water
JULY 14, 2023: This week's (July 12, 2023) annual Missouri River/Lake Sharpe Cleanup event at Pierre and Fort Pierre took almost 1.5 tons (2,830 pounds or 1.42 tons) of debris out of the two bodies of...
Jul 14, 2023 Courtesy photo.
Highmore, Brookings businesses approved for GOED funding
An aerial applicator from Highmore was approved this week (July 12, 2023) to receive a $450,000 loan from the South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development. A SD Works loan was approved for K...
Jul 13, 2023
South Dakota expanding stockpile of prescription medications to Pierre, Mobridge, three other towns
The Department of Health will be expanding its medical cache to five additional cities to help combat the shortage of prescription medications in South Dakota. Pierre, Mobridge, Aberdeen, Hot Springs ...
Jul 12, 2023 Charles Williams / CC
Community Appreciation Celebration being held today in Fort Pierre
The Fort Pierre Community Appreciation Celebration is today (July 12, 2023) from 4-8pm at the Expo Center. Shane Kramme with the Fort Pierre Chamber says there will be food, family fun and live music....
Jul 12, 2023
Pierre city, school board candidates take oath of office; Stanley County School Board members to take their during meeting tonight
Re-elected representatives of the Pierre City Commission and Pierre School Board have been sworn in this month (July 2023). Mayor Steve Harding took the oath of office to begin his third term on July ...
Jul 12, 2023 Pierre School District Business Manager Darla Mayer congratulations school board member Dan Cronin after giving him the oath of office to begin his third term.
Photo credit Jody Heemstra, DRG Media Group.
Stanley County School Board to meet, elect officers, hold budget hearing during meeting this evening
The Stanley County School Board meets at 6pm CT today (July 12, 2023) at Parkview Auditorium in Fort Pierre. Among items on the agenda are: Oath of Office Election of Officers Public Comment Public Bu...
Jul 12, 2023 Photo credit DRG Media Group.
Upper Missouri River basin average runoff increased in June, but hydropower production decreased
Above average rainfall and fast-melting snow led to above average runoff in the upper Missouri River Basin last month (June 2023). Runoff above Sioux City, Iowa, was 122% of average (6.7 million acre-...
Jul 11, 2023
Six-ton axle weight limit begins today on section of SD Highway 34 in Hyde County
Due to road breakup, the South Dakota Department of Transportation is implementing a six-ton maximum axle weight limit beginning today (July 11, 2023) on S.D. Highway 34 from the Hughes/Hyde County li...
Jul 11, 2023 zackzen / CC
Search for children's remains continues at former Native American boarding school in Nebraska
JULY 11, 2023: GENOA, Neb. (AP) - Amid a renewed push for answers, archeologists plan to resume digging for student remains at the site of a former Native American boarding school. The dig began on Mo...
Jul 11, 2023 FILE - Photos of students in a classroom are seen on display in a museum at the former Genoa Indian Industrial School, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, in Genoa, Neb. For decades the location of the student cemetery, where over 80 Native American children are buried, has been a mystery, lost over time after the school closed in 1931 and memories faded of the once-busy campus that sprawled over 640 acres in the tiny community of Genoa. Archeologists are starting to dig Monday, July 10, 2023, to find the bodies of the children. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Pierre City Commission meeting tonight
The Pierre City Commission meets today (July 11, 2023) at 5:30pm at City Hall. Among the items on their agenda are: Promotion from Staff Engineer to City Engineer/Planning Director - Nick Waters 5:45p...
Jul 11, 2023
Current Weather
Sun Jul 5
Chamberlain, SD 57325, USA
69°FClear
Sun Jul 5
Mobridge, SD 57601, USA
66°FClear
Sun Jul 5
Pierre, SD 57501, USA
68°FClear