Category Archives: News Pierre
Traffic on S. Pierre Street and Euclid Avenue to be disrupted for sewer repairs
Monday (Dec. 14), West Pleasant Drive in Pierre between S. Huron Avenue and S. Pierre Street will be closed to through traffic because of sanitary sewer repairs. The block is expected to remain closed...
DRG Media Group News Dec 13, 2020

1st cases of CWD found in Mellette County
Chronic wasting disease has now been confirmed in deer in Mellette County. Chronic wasting disease is a fatal brain disease of deer, elk, and moose caused by an abnormal protein called a prion. Accord...
DRG Media Group News Dec 12, 2020

Parties at the Pierre City Recreation Facility may now include inflatable game
Add human foosball and giant soccer darts to the party options at the Pierre City Recreation Facility. Recreation Superintendent Mindy Cheap says the gym attached to Boys and Girls Club is available f...
DRG Media Group News Dec 11, 2020

North Dakota trucker joins the list of drivers who have lost to the infamous Pierre train bridge
A charge is pending against a 34-year-old man from Bismarck, ND, after the semi he was driving became the latest vehicle to hit the train bridge along a main route of travel in Pierre. A spokesman for...
DRG Media Group News Dec 10, 2020 Photo credit DRG Media Group

Fort Pierre City Council considering utility rate increases
The Fort Pierre City Council has given first reading to an ordinance that will increase utility rates next year. City finance officer Roxanne Heezen says the town will be paying more for water from it...
DRG Media Group News Dec 10, 2020

Jeni Schieckoff is weekly winner of The Right Turn's Touching Hearts raffle
With the second week of the Right Turn's Touching Hearts 50/50 fundraising raffle, Jeni Schieckoff won the weekly drawing. The card she drew was the 2 of Hearts today and she received $50.00. The fund...
DRG Media Group News Dec 09, 2020 Photo credit The Right Turn

USS Pierre Navy Warship in the works; Scheduled for commissioning summer 2024
South Dakota's capitol city will have a US Navy combat ship named after it. Pierre mayor Steve Harding says the process for the USS Pierre (LCS 38) started in February 2019. The USS Pierre will be 419...
DRG Media Group News Dec 09, 2020 Pierre mayor Steve Harding shows a replica of the USS Pierre during the Dec. 18, 2020, city commission meeting.
Image credit City of Pierre.
Mission Man Sentenced for Third Degree Burglary
A teenager from Mission convicted of Third Degree Burglary has been sentenced by a federal judge. Debonair Donavan Wright, age 19, was given time served through November 20, 2020, three years of super...
DRG Media Group News Dec 09, 2020

Pierre City Commission to discuss COVID-19, USS Pierre, 2021 police patrol vehicles at tonight's meeting
The Pierre City Commission meets this evening (Tues.) at 5:30 at City Hall. Among the items on the agenda are: a COVID-19 update a USS Pierre announcement a request to purchase 2021 patrol vehicles fo...
DRG Media Group News Dec 08, 2020 Photo credit: Dakota Radio Group

Hughes County Commission exploring options to make court operations safer
Hughes County Commissioners had another discussion about establishing a safer space for holding court during their regular meeting yesterday evening (Dec. 7, 2020). Loren Schaefer with Brosz Engineeri...
DRG Media Group News Dec 08, 2020 Image credit Hughes County South Dakota website screenshot.





