Category Archives: News Pierre

Pierre City Commission to cover building code ordinance updates at tonight's meeting
The Pierre City Commission meets this (Tues.) evening. Among the items on the agenda are: COVID-19 update 2nd readings of the Building Code Ordinance Update and the Building Code Violation Ordinance u...
DRG Media Group News Mar 23, 2021 Photo credit: Dakota Radio Group

Pierre economic development group commits to providing scholarships for new DWU Learn & Earn program
Students in Dakota Wesleyan University's new Learn & Earn program starting in Pierre in August will get some support from the Pierre Economic Development Corporation. PEDCO's board approved offeri...
DRG Media Group News Mar 23, 2021

Rawlins Municipal Library in Pierre carefully moving back toward pre-pandemic operations
Friday (March 26, 2021), Rawlins Municipal Library in Pierre will eliminate in-person programming limits and lift age restrictions for library patrons. Director Robin Schrupp says in-person programmin...
DRG Media Group News Mar 23, 2021 Photo credit: Dakota Radio Group

Stanley County Elementary principal and PE instructor become “human sundaes”
Stanley County Elementary students were treated to a "Human Sundae and Ice Cream Event" Thursday (March 18, 2021). Students voted for the staff members they wanted as the human sundae. Elementary Prin...
DRG Media Group News Mar 23, 2021 Photo credit Stanley County School District.
US Highway 83 reconstruction at White River begins today
Construction begins Monday (March 22, 2021) on U.S. Highway 83 from the town of White River for 11 miles to the White River. Construction activities will occur in two separate work zones and be...
DRG Media Group News Mar 22, 2021

Beck to retire from SDSU Extension agronomy team
After 17 years providing education and service to South Dakota growers and agribusiness professionals, SDSU Extension Agronomy Field Specialist Ruth Beck has announced her retirement. Her last day is ...
DRG Media Group News Mar 19, 2021 Photo credit SDSU Extension.
Judge denies Springer's latest motion from 1996 Pierre murder case
Yesterday (March 17, 2021) in South Dakota's Sixth Circuit Court, Judge Margo Northrup denied Shawn Springer's motion to correct illegal sentence regarding Springer's sentence for his involvement in t...
DRG Media Group News Mar 18, 2021

Hopeless to Homes animal rescue in Pierre gets $5000 from Miranda Lambert's MuttNation and Tractor Supply Company
An animal rescue organization in Pierre has received a sizable donation from a country music star's foundation. Miranda Lambert's MuttNation and Tractor Supply Company teamed up and surprised one anim...
DRG Media Group News Mar 18, 2021 Photo credit Michelle Maupin Barrett Photography.
Inmate dies at South Dakota Women's Prison in Pierre
State prison inmate Abby Hall has died as the result of an apparent suicide. Hall, age 32, was found unresponsive in a bathroom at the South Dakota Women's Prison in Pierre yesterday (March 16,...
DRG Media Group News Mar 17, 2021

District 24 legislators happy to see South Dakota state government's "the big three" get funding increases
During the 2021 Legislative Session, lawmakers passed approved 2.4% pay increases for "the big three"-- state employees, community support providers and education-- and a bill (SB57) that makes big ch...
DRG Media Group News Mar 17, 2021 Photo credit DRG Media Group.





