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December 02, 2019

Correction: Plane Crash-South Dakota story

In a story Dec. 1 about a South Dakota plane crash that killed nine people, The Associated Press reported the wrong last name ...

December 01, 2019

Powerful storm pushes into Midwest with heavy snow and winds

Wintry weather bedeviled Thanksgiving weekend travelers across the United States Saturday as a powerful and dangerous storm ...

November 30, 2019

Powerful storm interrupts nation’s busiest travel weekend

A powerful storm making its way east from California is causing major disruptions during the year’s busiest travel weekend, ...

November 24, 2019

For some rural US TV viewers, local news is anything but

When Dianne Johnson channel-surfs for news in her rural western Nebraska home, all she sees are stories about Colorado crime ...

November 19, 2019

South Dakota’s governor defends ‘Meth. We’re on it’ campaign

South Dakota sparked online guffaws Monday by rolling out an anti-drug campaign featuring people saying, “Meth, I’m on it,” ...

November 14, 2019

‘Bits and pieces’: Americans view impeachment on their terms

Cattle rancher Jeffery Gatzke in South Dakota was listening in as he worked on his tractor in his workshop. The first public ...

November 02, 2019

South Dakota set to execute man who stabbed former co-worker

Donnivan Schaeffer was delivering supplies to the South Dakota doughnut shop where he worked when a former co-worker who was ...

October 28, 2019

Fire-ravaged forests get help from pine cone collectors

With snow ready to fall, the scramble was on to collect as many ponderosa pine cones as possible. A crew outfitted with ...

October 27, 2019

49ers WR Marquise Goodwin sidelined after missing practice

San Francisco will be without receiver Marquise Goodwin against Carolina on Sunday after he missed two days of practice this ...

October 25, 2019

South Dakota, ACLU settle lawsuit over 'riot-boosting' laws

South Dakota's governor said Thursday that the state has agreed not to enforce aspects of laws that critics say were meant ...

October 19, 2019

Official arrested, accused of breaking open records law

A South Dakota county auditor accused of failing to make documents available for a public meeting was arrested and charged ...

September 19, 2019

Judge partially blocks law aimed at oil pipeline protests

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked enforcement of some new South Dakota laws that aim to prevent disruptive ...

September 12, 2019

Tornado hits South Dakota hospital: 'All are safe and sound'

When the warning sounded shortly before midnight that a tornado could be approaching, the clock turned into a stopwatch for ...

September 10, 2019

US seeks dismissal of tribes' lawsuit over Keystone pipeline

Attorneys for the Trump administration want a U.S. judge to throw out a lawsuit from Native American tribes trying to block ...

August 29, 2019

Report: US Native American health agency at crossroads

Emergency rooms shut down for months. Hospitals put patients at risk for opioid abuse and overdoses. A longtime pediatrician ...

August 17, 2019

Woman thought she had kidney stones, gave birth to triplets

A South Dakota woman who recently gave birth to triplets says she didn't find out about her pregnancy until she went to the ...

August 11, 2019

Arsenal starts its EPL season with 1-0 win at Newcastle

Arsenal's club-record signing Nicolas Pépé watched as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored to give his team a 1-0 win at ...

August 07, 2019

South Dakota rape case tests police seizure of placenta

The South Dakota Supreme Court will be asked to decide whether police investigating the possible statutory rape of a ...