Month: November 2012

Voters this week defeated an initiated measure that would have raised the state sales tax in South Dakota by one cent. The measure was placed […]

South Dakota’s child obesity rate rose in the last school year, with fifteen point nine percent of kids nineteen and under reported as obese. That […]

MELLETTE, S.D. (AP) – Four Michigan men have died and a fifth received life-threatening injuries in a two-vehicle crash in northeast South Dakota.  The South Dakota […]

Two familiar faces will once again represent District 20 in the State House of Representatives.  Lance Carson and Tona Rozum earned the most votes during […]

The search for Randall Jungwirth, 46, is now over.  An arrest warrant was issued on Tuesday following an overnight incident involving a law enforcement official.  […]

Republican State Senator Mike Vehle of Mitchell outdistanced Democratic challenger Quentin Burg of Wessington Springs in Tuesday’s election 57% to 43%….. Vehle-1 Vehle was attacked […]

These are the results from area legislative races and other ballot items: District 2 (Spink and Clark Counties) Senate: Chuck Welke def. Art Fryslie 51% […]

Voter turn out around South Dakota in Tuesday’s election was 68-point-31 percent and the numbers in Beadle County were even better. 69-point-three percent of the […]

Democratic State Representative Peggy Gibson will retain her seat in the South Dakota Legislature. Gibson was the top vote getter in Tuesday’s general election, collecting […]

District 22 Representative Jim White will have some slightly different surrounds when he returns to Pierre for the legislative session this winter. The republican defeated […]