Volga News

John Algra came to America in 1904 from Rotterdam, Holland and settled in Volga, South Dakota with his brother he brought with him.

A Brookings woman was arrested Sunday after a chase with a Brookings County Sheriff's deputy.

Orpha Iseminger of Sioux Falls will celebrate her 80th birthday Sunday, Nov. 22, with a family dinner.

Officials say a house fire in Volga was determined to have been caused by a young child playing with a lighter.

Two Volga teenagers were injured, one seriously, in a Monday evening car-vs .-motorcycle crash in Sioux Falls.

When Mary Thompson walked into Woodlake Athletic Club as a 28-year-old mother in 1980, she had never swung a tennis racket in her life.

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Antoinette Miller and Daniel Reichelt, both of Sioux Falls, announce their engagement.

Enrollment in the Brookings and Sioux Valley school districts has changed this year.

VOLGA - Tuesday, with Sioux Valley High School celebrating its homecoming, Ashley Longhenry wore pajamas to class.

BROOKINGS - The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction in the case of a bomb threat at the Volga post office.

A bomb threat shut down the Volga Post Office at 7 a.m. Friday. The Brookings County Sheriff's office was called after the Volga postmaster found a note inside the post office indicating a bomb would going off in the building at a certain time.

Steve Schmidt recalls a stand-out memory from playing in rap/rock hybrid group Trend 86: The band opened for Coolio, Sir Mix-a-Lot and other popular groups in 2001 at the Bash in the Grass Festival near Volga.

Iowa Governor Chet Culver and his administration have been touting the 830 million dollar I-JOBS program for several weeks now as the way to get Iowa's economy back on track.

Six South Dakota educators will go on a 13-day educational tour of Turkey this summer.

Just west of Brookings, in Volga, there's a new mayor, but the town never held an election.

On Monday morning at around 3:30 the Bruce Fire Department responded to a structure fire at both 405 and 407 Jefferson in Bruce.