Category Archives: News Pierre

Lauing ranch near Blunt being honored as South Dakota Quarter Horse Association 2021 Producer of the Year
Lauing Ranch Quarter Horses from Blunt is being honored this weekend (Jan. 7-9, 2022) as the South Dakota Quarter Horse Association 2021 Producer of the Year. JD Lauing says the ranch has been in thei...
DRG Media Group News Jan 07, 2022

District 24 legislators hopeful "big three" will get proposed 6% funding increase this legislative session
In her budget address last month (Dec. 7, 2021), South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem proposed a 6% funding increase for the state's "big three"-- education, healthcare providers and state employees. Hea...
DRG Media Group News Jan 07, 2022 District 24 legislators Representative Mike Weisgram, Senator Mary Duvall and Representative Will Mortenson at the DRG Media Group studios after recording the 2022 South Dakota Legislative Preview with DRG News and Farm Director Jody Heemstra.

Mehlhaff would be a "conservative voice" if elected to the District 24 Senate seat
JANUARY 7, 2022: A former Pierre City Commissioner has declared his candidacy for District 24's seat in the South Dakota Senate. Republican Jim Mehlhaff is currently the Financial Supervisor for the S...
DRG Media Group News Jan 07, 2022

St. Francis man sentenced for Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer
A 41 year old man from St. Francis, South Dakota, convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer has been sentenced by a federal judge. Willard Henry, Jr., must spend two months in...
DRG Media Group News Jan 07, 2022 Tingey Injury Law Firm / Unsplash

Cold weather not to blame for West Central Electric Cooperative power outage this morning
Roughly 70 West Central Electric Cooperative customers-- including one of the DRG Media Group radio station tower sites-- were without power for about three hours this morning (Jan. 6, 2022). Manager ...
DRG Media Group News Jan 06, 2022 Image credit West Central Electric Cooperative website.

UPDATE: City of Pierre awards bid for Black Hills Drive extension; Project scheduled to be done by mid-August
The Black Hills Drive extension project in northeast Pierre is moving forward. This week (Jan. 4, 2022), staff engineer Nick Waters told the Pierre City Commission the street will be extended by 514 f...
DRG Media Group News Jan 06, 2022 Map credit City of Pierre.
Mission man sentenced for Carjacking
A 20 year old man from Mission, South Dakota, convicted of Carjacking has received his punishment from a federal US District Court judge. Eurico Da Silva-Roubideaux, a/k/a Eurico Roubideaux, was sente...
DRG Media Group News Jan 06, 2022

Pierre School District hits 300 recovered cases of COVID-19 this school year
Today's (Jan. 5, 2022) COVID-19 case update from the Pierre School District shows 23 active cases among students and staff-- 18 in students and 5 active cases in staff. So far during the 2021-22 schoo...
DRG Media Group News Jan 05, 2022 Infographic credit Pierre School District.

UPDATE: During 2021, Pierre Regional Airport more than doubles 2020 passenger load
UPDATE JANUARY 5, 2022: During 2021, Pierre Regional Airport more than doubles 2020 passenger load The Pierre Regional Airport had over 1900 (1927) enplanements in December and finished 2021 with over...
DRG Media Group News Jan 05, 2022 Infographic credit City of Pierre.

Denver Air takes over as Pierre's sole commercial air service provider
SkyWest Airlines, doing business as United Express, made its last flights out of Pierre yesterday (Jan. 3, 2022), leaving Denver Air Connection as the sole commercial air carrier in and out of the Pie...
DRG Media Group News Jan 04, 2022





