Consultant report released on South Dakota prison plan

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - A consultant report over the need for a new prison facility in South Dakota is now available. The report found the current South Dakota state penitentiary should be decommissioned and replaced. The report says the overall system …

South Dakota close to tackling property tax issue

North Dakota Supreme Court to decide whether to uphold overserving fine against Fargo's Windbreak

FARGO — The North Dakota Supreme Court will decide whether a popular south Fargo bar should be fined after city leaders said it overserved a customer who later crashed into a pole. Justices on Tuesday, May 13, in Bismarck listened to attorneys argue on …

South Dakota arts & science from across the state

On today's show... Cyanide is known for its long and lethal legacy across history and literature. Brian Logue, Ph.D., knew the chemical by that reputation but also for its signaling function in plants. He set out to see if cyanide could serve a similar …

Report shows South Dakota penitentiary ‘has reached the end of its useful life’

PIERRE, S.D. (Flag Family Media) - The South Dakota penitentiary has reached the end of its useful life. The Project Prison Reset task force shared the news from consultants Arrington Watkins. Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen, who chairs the task force, …

RCPD work hit and run accident early Thursday, arrest South Dakota man

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - The Riley County Police Department (RCPD) worked a hit and run accident on Thursday, May 15. Officers were dispatched to the 700 block of S. 4th Street for the report of a fatality accident on Thursday, a little before 5:45 a.m. …

Q&A with South Dakota State tight end Brayden Delahoyde

BROOKINGS — Having said goodbye to most of their top offensive weapons from 2024, the Jackrabbits need some new playmakers in 2025. Brayden Delahoyde, a tight end from Spearfish, could be one of the biggest sleepers in the Missouri Valley Football …

A transplant from the South, WDAY-TV's John Wheeler found life's work in Fargo

FARGO — When John Wheeler started his job as a WDAY-TV meteorologist in Fargo-Moorhead on May 6, 1985, he didn’t plan to stay long. Three years tops, and he’d be on to a larger television market. Though he knew the wildly-variable weather here would make …

South Dakota's prison price tag could be more than $2B, task force learns

The state of South Dakota could build more than $2 billion worth of prisons in the next decade and still be out of space by 2040. That’s according to a highly anticipated consultant's report commissioned by the Project Prison Reset Task Force, …

South Dakota Massive Porter Sculpture Park Is Open For 2025!

To some, the Porter Sculpture Park in South Dakota is an amazing roadside attraction. To others, it's a massive, bizarre wonderment they drive by on the interstate I-90 heading to Wall Drug. Do You Know What Is Inside The Giant 60-Foot-Tall Bull Head …