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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
US judge to weigh cattle industry request to halt Colorado wolf reintroduction
DECEMBER 14, 2023: UNDATED (AP)- A federal judge is set to consider a request by Colorado's cattle industry to block the impending reintroduction of gray wolves to the state under a voter-approved bal...
Jody Heemstra Dec 14, 2023 Derek Bakken / CC
Toppled moon lander sends back more images, with only hours left until it dies
FEBRUARY 27, 2024: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A toppled moon lander is still beaming back pictures, as its nears the final hours of its life. Intuitive Machines posted the latest photos of the moon's...
Jody Heemstra Feb 27, 2024 Official Intuitive Machines Photos / CC
Cities whose residents are most likely to live with roommates
Household size in the U.S. is inching up for the first-time in over a century due to lower housing inventory and skyrocketing rents. Accompanying this trend is the increase in "doubled-up househo...
Nov 18, 2020
Duba, Nesiba call for inquiry into COVID grants received by son of state Senate Majority Leader
Two state lawmakers are calling for an investigation into more than $700,000 in COVID relief grants given to the son of a state senator. Bart Pfankuch with South Dakota News Watch has the details. Two...
Jody Heemstra Nov 01, 2021
Nashville shooter was ex-student with detailed plan to kill
MARCH 28, 2023: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The former student who shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school in Nashville and killed three children and three adults had drawn a detailed map ...
Jody Heemstra Mar 28, 2023
After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril
SHARON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Fifty years after the U.S. Endangered Species Act took effect, officials say 99% of the animals and plants it protects have survived. But some scientists and activists fe...
Jody Heemstra Aug 05, 2023 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / CC
High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons
UNDATED (AP)- Recent assaults on two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners have renewed concerns about whether the federal Bureau of Prisons is capable of keeping people in its custody safe. Derek...
Jody Heemstra Dec 08, 2023 Ken Mayer / CC
Charger Invitational Track & Field Results
ONIDA - Top results for Central South Dakota schools at the Charger Invitational Track & Field meet, held Thursday at Sully Buttes High School: GIRLS 100 Meters 2 Morgan Kolda (Miller) - 13.46 3 B...
Apr 22, 2022
China dismisses FBI statement on COVID-19 lab leak theory
MARCH 1, 2023: BEIJING (AP) - For the second day in a row, China is dismissing U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory. Res...
Jody Heemstra Mar 01, 2023