Category Archives: News Pierre

Grassland Fire Danger Index triggers automatic open burn ban in Hughes and Stanley counties
The National Weather Service has put much of southern South Dakota in the Extreme Fire Danger for this afternoon (Feb. 8, 2022) and a Wind Advisory is in effect from 11am-6pm CT today. The area includ...
DRG Media Group News Feb 08, 2022 National Weather Service Grassland Fire Danger Index for Feb. 8, 2022.
Image credit NWS.

National Guard recognition and bid requests on tonight's agenda for Pierre City Commission
The Pierre City Commission meets today (Feb. 8, 2022) at 5:30pm at City Hall. Among the items on the agenda are: A special recognition of the National Guard Request to Bid- Construction/Expansion of C...
DRG Media Group News Feb 08, 2022 Photo credit: Dakota Radio Group
Winner woman sentenced for meth trafficking
UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2022: A federal court judge has determined the punishment for a 34 year old woman from Winner convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. Amber Heth was sentenced to 37 m...
DRG Media Group News Feb 08, 2022

GFP Commission holding special meeting today about Spring Creek concession contract
UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2022: A group from Sioux Falls has received the concessionaire contract to run the restaurant at Spring Creek State Recreation Area about 20 miles north of Pierre and Fort Pierre th...
DRG Media Group News Feb 08, 2022 Map credit South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks.

Man killed in Friday morning accident in Draper was from Mitchell
UPDATE FEBRUARY 7, 2022: A 51 year old man from Mitchell died early Friday morning (3:30am Feb. 4, 2022) in a one-vehicle crash in Draper. Preliminary crash information from the South Dakota Highway P...
DRG Media Group News Feb 07, 2022

Former owner of nursing home facilities in Pierre, Mobridge, Ipswich and other South Dakota towns pleads "not guilty" to tax charges
UPDATE FEBRUARY 7, 2022: NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The former owner of a failed multistate chain of nursing homes has pleaded not guilty to tax charges. Joseph Schwartz appeared via videoconference before a...
Diane Deis Feb 07, 2022 CafeCredit.com / CC

Fort Pierre City Council agenda includes license for Tiger's Tap, conditional use permit for Bad River Cannabis and 2022 street projects during tonight's meeting
The Fort Pierre City Council meets this evening at 6:30pm in the South Dakota Municipal League building (208 Island Drive). Items on their agenda include: Set public hearing date for Malt Beverage and...
DRG Media Group News Feb 07, 2022

Hughes County Commission to discuss weight limits, planning and zoning and more at tonight's meeting
The Hughes County Commission meets at 5:30pm at the Hughes County Courthouse in Pierre. Among the items on their agenda are: Weight limit enforcement Planning and Zoning annual report Tower lease cont...
DRG Media Group News Feb 07, 2022 Photo credit Jody Heemstra, DRG Media Group.

Oahe and Big Bend Dams supporting temporary power needs for parts of the US hit by winter storm
Beginning today (Feb. 4, 2022), the US Army Corps of Engineers is increasing releases from the Oahe and Big Bend Dams in South Dakota to about 36,000 cfs, downstream conditions permitting. John Remus,...
DRG Media Group News Feb 04, 2022 Photo credit US Army Corps of Engineers.

Lake Oahe Reservoir level down 10 feet since December 2021; Below average runoff forecast for the upper Missouri River Basin in 2022
The updated 2022 calendar year runoff forecast for the upper Missouri River Basin (above Sioux City, Iowa) continues to be below average. Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers' Missouri River Basin ...
DRG Media Group News Feb 04, 2022





