SOUTH DAKOTA
STAFF BLOG FORUM COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY Daily Republic receives top award in 2013 SDNA newspaper contest
MITCHELL, S.D. - The Daily Republic has been judged the best small daily newspaper in South Dakota for the fourth consecutive year. During a recent ceremony held at Mount Rushmore, the Mitchell newspa...
Posted on 5/10/13 at 8:35 AM
REPUBLIC INSIDER Checking out the R and D rosters
Let's say it's a ballgame. The first pitch has yet to be thrown in the 2014 game, but how about setting the lineups? The Republican team is easy to write down. The Democrats? Not so much, and the two...
Posted on 4/4/13 at 11:22 PM
COMPASS POINTS: NEWS FROM THE GREAT OUTDOORS WITH HERALD OUTDOOR WRITER BRAD DOKKEN Group plans first-ever auction for S.D. bighorn sheep tag
The Midwest Chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation annually auctions off a North Dakota bighorn sheep tag, but this year, for the first time ever, the Northfield, Minn.-based group is auctioning off a S...
Posted on 3/14/13 at 10:02 AM
FARGO WARRIORS LACROSSE Sioux Falls, S.D., making push to grow youth lacrosse
FARGO, N.D. - Apparently, according to a recent story in the Argus Leader, aSouth Dakota man is pushing to introduce lacrosse to the state's youth. Collegiate lacrosse has been played at the Universi...
Posted on 2/15/13 at 5:14 PM
THE NEW FORTY Thank you Summit, South Dakota!
In the midst of blizzard conditions, it is still mighty warm and cozy in Summit, South Dakota. In true Midwest form, community members in Summit rose to the occasion when student fans of UND's hockey ...
Posted on 2/10/13 at 6:52 PM
Small town along South Dakota-North Dakota border welcomes water 
POLLOCK, S.D. – In this community that once was doomed by an intentional flood on the Missouri River, residents now welcome the rising water on Lake Oahe.
By Associated Press , June 12, 2011
At full flow, mighty Missouri puts on show
PIERRE, S.D. — As a younger man, Jean Ries used to fish the shoreline of the Missouri River near Pierre, trying for walleye and the other fish that make the area a favorite with anglers. The river back then was far more sedate than the sight this week.
By Associated Press , June 10, 2011
Small town along SD-ND border welcomes high water
POLLOCK, S.D. (AP) — In this community that once was doomed by an intentional flood on the Missouri River, residents now welcome the rising water on Lake Oahe.
By Associated Press , June 10, 2011
Backup levee in works in South Dakota
Conditions update delays Bismarck evacuationsPIERRE, S.D. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction of a backup levee Sunday to protect the town of Dakota Dunes in southeast South Dakota from the fast-rising Missouri River.
By Associated Press , June 06, 2011
In South Dakota, some blame Corps for flood threat
FORT PIERRE, S.D. — Sitting atop a 6-foot wall of white sandbags hastily stacked to protect his home from the rising Missouri River, 82-year-old Helmet Reuer doesn't buy the official explanation that heavy rains caused a sudden flood threat.
By Associated Press , June 03, 2011
Large South Dakota wind farm operational
SIOUX FALLS — The Crow Lake wind farm in South Dakota is operating.North Dakota-based Basin Electric Power Cooperative says the last of 108 turbines was ready in late February at the $363 million project just east of Chamberlain.
By Associated Press , March 08, 2011
South Dakota sheriff now oversees more bison than people
MCLAUGHLIN, S.D. — Sheriff Keith Gall is known as the "singing sheriff" for his a cappella performances at weddings and funerals. But thanks to a judge, the gun-toting tenor now spends more time with a grunting, testy audience of some 6,000 bison that outnumber people in his South Dakota county.
By Associated press , March 07, 2011
Woman in AIM slaying case dies of lung cancer
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A woman who recently pleaded guilty to being an accessory in the 1975 slaying of an American Indian Movement activist has died of lung cancer.
By Associated Press , February 11, 2011
Blizzard snarls I-29 traffic in South Dakota
BISMARCK – Emergency crews in South Dakota spent seven hours rescuing motorists Thursday after more than 150 vehicles became stranded overnight in a blizzard on Interstate 29 in the northeast part of the state.
By Blake Nicholson / Associated Press , February 04, 2011
Tribe mourns woman, children dead in Minot shootings
RAPID CITY, S.D. — A South Dakota tribe mourned Sunday after three of its members, a mother and two children, were found dead in shootings at two separate North Dakota homes.
By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press , January 30, 2011
2 from Dakotas on Justice Department task force
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two attorneys from the Dakotas have been appointed to a Justice Department task force that will study the prosecution of violent crimes against women in Indian Country.
By Associated Press , January 26, 2011
North Dakota, South Dakota on Minnesota's business-climate radar
ST. PAUL – More than 5 million people live in Minnesota, 673,000 in North Dakota and 814,000 in South Dakota.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , January 22, 2011
Sanford donates money for Sioux Falls scoreboard
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A Dakotas-based health care system is continuing its sporting ways.
By Associated Press , January 15, 2011
Man pleads guilty to Cass County luring charge
A 63-year-old man from South Dakota admitted on Monday in Cass County District Court to attempting to arrange to meet a 14-year-old girl to have sex.
By Forum staff reports , January 11, 2011
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