Big Stone City News

Thirteen Aberdeen Fire and Rescue firefighters are working to carry on a long-standing tradition among their colleagues.

From Harding County in the northwest to Gayville in the southeast, 15 South Dakota communities will take part in the third Horizons community development project starting in September.

The Class B American Legion state tournament has resumed after a heavy storm rolled through Milbank.

Brookings residents Russ Stubbles and Bob Semrad have gathered enough baseball gear to equip 23 youth teams on the Rosebud Reservation.

South Dakota Public Utilities Commissioner Dusty Johnson has urged his Minnesota counterparts to approve new power lines that would serve the proposed Big Stone 2 power plant near Milbank.

Two environmental groups have asked South Dakota regulators to reject construction of a second coal-fired power plant at Big Stone City. via KSFY-TV Sioux Falls

“They gauge it off the weather and what their feet are looking like”

Two men are on track to complete their run across South Dakota on Friday. Brendan Murphy, a National Guard officer from Rapid City, and Nolan Taylor, his friend from Montana, are covering 429 miles in 14 days. via ArgusLeader.com

Authorities say a woman drowned after falling into the Whetstone River at Big Stone City on the South Dakota-Minnesota border. via Argus Leader

Authorities say a woman drowned after falling into the Whetstone River at Big Stone City on the South Dakota-Minnesota border. via KXMA-TV Dickinson

“We have to get a favorable ruling on the EIS by the feds”

It's been four years since the coal-fired Big Stone II power plant was proposed for the Big Stone City area, and it's still waiting for the permits it needs so construction can start. via Mining News