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Smoke from distant fires expected to continue following weather patterns moving it in and out of South Dakota
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023: The past few months have seen air quality alerts being issued for areas across South Dakota where smoke from Canadian wildfires sporadically settles in. State Fire Meteorologist Dr....
Jody Heemstra Sep 08, 2023
Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) - Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed nightly in a frontline bunker in the...
Jody Heemstra Feb 27, 2023 Hamner_Fotos / CC
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum ends 2024 Republican presidential bid days before the fourth debate
DECEMBER 4, 2023: BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has ended his 2024 Republican presidential bid. Burgum blames the Republican National Committee for arbitrary debate qualification...
Jody Heemstra Dec 04, 2023
Biden's second try at student loan cancellation moves forward with debate over the plan's details
OCTOBER 10, 2023: WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden's second attempt at student loan cancellation is moving forward as a group of negotiators meets to debate what a new proposal might look like. F...
Jody Heemstra Oct 10, 2023
2023 Budget Address, by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem
2023 Budget Address By: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (Remarks as-prepared for delivery) December 5, 2023 INTRODUCTION Good afternoon, Lieutenant Governor Rhoden, Mr. Speaker, members of the House...
Jody Heemstra Dec 05, 2023
Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
MARCH 28, 2024, UPDATE: NEW YORK (AP) - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for a cryptocurrency fraud that a prosecutor has described as one of the biggest financia...
Jody Heemstra Mar 28, 2024
Biden pardons National Thanksgiving Turkeys while marking his 81st birthday with jokes about his age
NOVEMBER 20, 2023, UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) - Turkeys Liberty and Bell have new appreciation for the phrase, "Let freedom ring." The Thanksgiving birds played their part Monday (Nov. 20, 2023...
Jody Heemstra Nov 20, 2023
South Dakota Housing awards $13.5 million for development of affordable living spaces
South Dakota Housing Development Authority's Board of Commissioners recently awarded more than $13 million to assist South Dakotans with newly constructed multifamily housing, single family housing, h...
Jody Heemstra Dec 07, 2022
US Treasury Department releases report card showing record small business growth
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report card (Oct. 23, 2023) detailing how the Department's implementation of federal investments in entrepreneurs and small businesses - including those ...
Jody Heemstra Oct 23, 2023
Black victims of violent crime disproportionately denied aid in many states, including South Dakota
UNDATED (AP)- Black people are disproportionately denied aid from state programs that reimburse victims of violent crime. That's according to an AP examination of data from 23 states that shows Black ...
Jody Heemstra May 17, 2023