Author Archives: Jim Kallas

House Appropriations delayed a vote Wednesday on a bill that would increase South Dakota's Extraordinary Cost Fund for special education and add inflation indexing. Republican Sen. Stephanie Sauder of...

The name of a Spearfish man that died in a single vehicle crash Saturday evening near I-90 exit 10 and US 85 in Spearfish has been released. Preliminary crash information indicates Mark Alan Anderson,...

The South Dakota House has passed a $5 million emergency appropriation to replace the Highway Patrol's aircraft and mission equipment. Republican Rep. Jack Kolbeck of Sioux Falls carried the bill on t...

A bill that passed in the house targeting abortion pill advertising and distribution cleared a Senate Committee Wednesday House Bill 1274 makes it a felony to knowingly sell, distribute, dispense, or ...

The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday revived and passed a previously defeated bill allowing the Governor's Office of Economic Development to spend $87 million in federal funds to expand broadband in u...

The South Dakota senate Voted 31-3 yesterday to accept House amendments to SB 36, allowing certain utilities to create wildfiremitigation plans and establishing related limits on liability for wildfir...

The Rapid City Police Department is investigating a driveby shooting in a northside neighborhood after multiple rounds were fired from a vehicle Monday in the 1700 block of N. 7th Street. Several home...

Ellsworth Air Force Base aircraft were involved in U.S. military strikes against Iran late Sunday, according to U.S. Central Command. B1 bombers launched from Ellsworth and carried out longrange missi...

A Rapid City woman is in custody after a suspicious grass fire on East North Street led police to uncover several outstanding warrants and new drugrelated charges. Police and fire crews were called ar...

Beginning at 9 a.m. Thursday morning, crews are scheduled to make repairs to a tower light located on eastbound Interstate 90 at exit 55 (Deadwood Avenue) in Rapid City. To complete the repairs, a cra...