Category Archives: News
Dodge, Deny Or Fib: Candidates Stay Vague On 2024 Plans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential aspirants running for reelection while dreaming of the highest office in the land often face an uncomfortable question: Will they commit to serving a full term - should ...
Ryan R. Reider Oct 28, 2022
South Dakota Prosecutor: No Charges For Noem's Airplane Use
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota prosecutor who was overseeing an investigation into Gov. Kristi Noem's use of state government aircraft says that the investigation found nothing to support a c...
Ryan R. Reider Oct 25, 2022
South Dakota Medical Pot Cards Rise With "Pop-Up" Clinics
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota has seen a rapid rise in people registering to use medical marijuana in recent months. A state health official told lawmakers on Tuesday that many people obtain t...
Ryan R. Reider Oct 25, 2022
Will South Dakota OK Pot Again After 1st Measure Reversed?
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Recreational marijuana legalization will be back on the South Dakota ballot in November. Voters in 2020 approved a constitutional amendment to legalize cannabis but it was nul...
Ryan R. Reider Oct 23, 2022
Hotel Sued For Denying Rooms To Native Americans
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the owners of a hotel and bar in Rapid City, South Dakota, accusing them of violating the civil rights of Native Americans by refusing t...
Ryan R. Reider Oct 22, 2022
Harvey Wollman, Last South Dakota Democratic Governor, Dies
HURON, S.D. (AP) - Harvey Wollman, the last Democratic governor of South Dakota, has died 45 years after serving as the state's leader. He was 87. Wollman's son, Mike, told The Associated Press that h...
Ryan R. Reider Oct 22, 2022
Jim Kallas Named Broadcaster Of The Year
Black Hills Pioneer (Wendi Pitlick-10/19/22)-When Jim Kallas auditioned for broadcasting school at the start of his career in the early 1980s, the instructors told him he wasn't cut out for the field....
Ryan R. Reider Oct 22, 2022
Biden's Pot Pardons Could Boost States' Legalization Drives
LITTLE ROCK, AR (AP) - President Joe Biden's decision to pardon thousands of people convicted of simple possession of marijuana under federal law could give a boost to Election Day ballot proposals in...
Ryan R. Reider Oct 17, 2022
Noem's Balancing Act: Big Ambitions, South Dakota Reelection
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Many political watchers expected Gov. Kristi Noem to cruise to reelection this year in Republican-dominated South Dakota against a Democratic challenger without statewide expe...
Ryan R. Reider Oct 11, 2022
South Dakota Freedom Caucus Claims Fraud
RAPID CITY, SD - As the November election nears, there has been an increase of claims of voter fraud in South Dakota. The South Dakota Freedom Caucus claims that several county auditors and the secret...
Ryan R. Reider Oct 08, 2022




