Category Archives: News Pierre

Winner, seven other South Dakota Elementary Schools receive state math improvement grant
The Winner Elementary School is one of eight elementary schools that will participate in the State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) project to improve math outcomes for students with disabilities in...
DRG Media Group News Mar 07, 2026 thinglass / Depositphotos.com

Shelby Heckenlaible selected Pierre School District 2026 Teacher of the Year
Shelby Heckenlaible has been selected as the Pierre School District's Teacher of the Year for 2026. Heckenlaible is a 3rd Grade teacher at Buchanan Elementary School. The school district's criteria fo...
DRG Media Group News Mar 06, 2026 Shelby Heckenlaible.
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Officers working for Lyman, Brule, Hyde and McPherson Sheriff's Offices and Mobridge and Gettysburg Police Departments among today's gradates of South Dakota's 200th Law Enforcement Certification Class
It's graduation day for the 39 recruits, representing 29 different law enforcement agencies, that make up South Dakota's 200th Basic Law Enforcement Certification class. Graduates completed 13 weeks a...
DRG Media Group News Mar 06, 2026 Courtesy photo.

Rhoden property tax relief plan clears House, heads to his desk; Mortenson calls the plan a "reverse Robin Hood concept"
The South Dakota House on Thursday (March 5, 2026) passed Senate Bill 96, a county option plan that would let local governments raise a gross receipts tax of up to one-half percent to reduce owner-occ...
DRG Media Group News Mar 06, 2026

Warmer than normal, but not record setting, temperatures recorded around central South Dakota Wednesday
The unseasonably warm temperatures continued in central South Dakota Wednesday (March 4, 2026), but most Aberdeen National Weather Service reporting locations indicate no new record high temps were se...
DRG Media Group News Mar 05, 2026

McLaughlin, Timber Lake, Wakpala, Wolsey-Wessington school districts receive state grants to improve equipment for Career and Technical Education programs
Nine South Dakota school districts-- four of which are in the central part of the state-- are the 2026 recipients of South Dakota Perkins Reserve Grants. According to the state Department of Education...
DRG Media Group News Mar 05, 2026 artursz / Depositphotos.com

Pierre's Bowers, Rapid City's Cunningham to participate in United States Senate Youth Program beginning Saturday
March 4, 2026: Pierre T.F. Riggs High School senior Chloe Bowers is one of two students that will represent South Dakota at the United States Senate Youth Program's Washington Week, which begins Satur...
DRG Media Group News Mar 04, 2026 Courtesy photo.

Nearly 1400 people flew out of Pierre in February 2026
There continues to be strong passenger numbers out of the Pierre Regional Airport, according to City Commissioner Jamie Huizenga. Stager said Delta's arrival time back into Watertown from Minneapolis ...
DRG Media Group News Mar 04, 2026

With conservative projections in 2025 budget, sales and Triple B tax collections for Fort Pierre increase from 2024
Fort Pierre saw more tax revenue come in in 2025 than it did in 2024. Acting City Finance Officer Twila Hoffrogge said sales tax collections were "significantly" over what was budgeted for 2025. Hoffr...
DRG Media Group News Mar 03, 2026

South Dakota Highway Patrol Trooper named finalist for international award for action taken during Aug. 2025 pursuit in Haakon County
March 3, 2026: A South Dakota Highway Patrol Trooper is one of four finalists for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)/Motorola Solutions Trooper of the Year Award. The honor recog...
DRG Media Group News Mar 03, 2026 South Dakota Highway Patrol Trooper Kyle Knievel.
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