Pierre News

Four candidates for governor are set to discuss their views on K-12 education Friday in Pierre.

A 22-year-old former Pierre man has been indicted in an October 2008 crash in northern Hughes County that killed a man and the unborn child of a woman.

A body found in the trunk of a burning car in Hanson County has been sent to the State Crime Lab in Pierre for investigation.

Stanley Count9 Sheriff Brad Rathbun said authorities found the bod9 of 65-year-old Ronald Wham floating in the Missouri River north of Pierre and For4 Pierre on Monday afternoon.

BREAKING NEWS: South Dakota's smoking ban is going to a vote. The decision came shortly after closing arguments in Pierre, SD Friday.

I'm glad Argus Leader columnist David Kranz recognizes the reality that more women's voices are needed in Pierre.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. By CHET BROKAW Associated Press Writer PIERRE, S.D. A judge ruled Thursday that South Dakota's smoking ban is legally eligible to be referred to a statewide public vote.

Authorities continue to investigate the disappearance of a Mitchell teenager and a suspicious fire east of town.

PIERRE - A judge ruled this morning that South Dakota's smoking ban is legally eligible to be referred to a statewide public vote.

Firefighters spent about an hour at the site of the new Hughes County Jail east of Pierre after a natural gas line broke about 40 feet from the new building.

PIERRE - Gov. Mike Rounds says the health reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would break South Dakota's state budget.

PIERRE, S.D. After serving two terms as vice president, Merrill Karlen of Oacoma has been selected president of the South Dakota Beef Industr9 Council.

With featured speaker Donna Beegle, a poverty advocate, set to address the audience, the South Dakota Horizons project is hosting a free workshop with a focus on communication across barriers on Dec.

PIERRE - This time as a private citizen, former Vice President Dick Cheney hunted pheasants in the Pierre area this week.

PIERRE, S.D. - Ranchers who live along the route of a crude oil pipeline that TransCanada Keystone wants to build across western South Dakota said Tuesday they are worried about oil spills and damage to their land, water and roads.

Marks of History: Fort Pierre , South Dakota PIERRE, S.D. - Fort Pierre , the oldest continuous white settlement in South Dakota , was named after American fur trader Pierre Choteau Jr.

It will be the fourth public hearing before the PUC as part of the Keystone XL proceeding.

Associated Press - November 2, 2009 10:35 AM ET PIERRE, S.D. - The debate continues over hunting mountain lions in South Dakota.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 10/29/2009 7:25 AM Where is George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism when we need it? Governor Rounds says increased enrollment in Medicaid may set the state back another $40 million.

More than 1,000 doses of H1N1 shots that were intended to be distributed in Sioux Falls last night were shipped back to Pierre.