Category Archives: News
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Are Seeing An Increase
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials released data Tuesday showing how chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases have been accelerating, but doctors are hoping an old drug will help fight the sexually ...
Apr 11, 2023
Court Rules Documents In Sanford Case Must Be Unsealed
By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that affidavits from an investigation into child pornography allegations against billionaire philanthropist T. Denny...
Apr 06, 2023
Serenity Dennard Disappearance: 2019 Mystery Still Causing Misery
By: BART PFANCUCH South Dakota News Watch ROCKERVILLE, S.D. - One of the biggest mysteries in all of South Dakota - the unknown fate of 9-year-old Serenity Dennard - elicits one singular emotion more ...
Apr 05, 2023
Group Names SD Congressman Most Effective House Republican On Agriculture
A group is honoring South Dakota's sole congressman. The Center for Effective Lawmaking has named Dusty Johnson the "most effective House Republican" on agriculture in the 117th Congress. This is the ...
Mar 29, 2023
Rapid City Billboard Advocates Pulling Funding For Ukraine
A Rapid City billboard is advocating pulling U.S. funding for Ukraine in its battle against Russian invaders. The billboard says Defund Ukraine and went up last week in downtown Rapid City on Fifth an...
Mar 29, 2023
Flags At Half-Staff Across SD Honoring Nashville School Shooting Victims
Flags are flying at half-staff at government buildings across South Dakota in honor of the victims of the Nashville school shooting. Governor Kristi Noem has ordered that flags remain at half-staff un...
Mar 29, 2023
South Dakota Governor's Veto Of Cryptocurrency Regulations Upheld
South Dakota's House failed Monday (3/27/23) to override Gov. Kristi Noem's recent veto of a bill that would have created government regulations for the use of cryptocurrency in the state. The bill ha...
Mar 27, 2023
Tribe Urges Army To Speed Up Return Of Child's 1879 Remains
Federal authorities expect to return a 13-year-old boy's remains to his Native American tribe in South Dakota this fall, they said Friday. The statement comes days after the tribe urged for a faster r...
Mar 27, 2023
Court Weighs Release Of Records In Sanford Child Porn Probe
BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) - Attorneys took their fight over whether to unseal more documents in the 2019 child pornography investigation of billionaire banker and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford to the Sou...
Mar 23, 2023
South Dakota Boosts Criminal Justice System Investments
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Republican Gov. Kristi Noem signed legislation Monday that puts more than $390 million into the state's prison system, with most of that money going toward investments in new priso...
Mar 21, 2023
