Bennett County News

The South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression Division and the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Department will be conducting a prescribed burn on the Todd Ranch Game Production Area five miles south and two miles east of Martin, SD.

Universities and K-12 schools are set to receive nearly $300,000 in federal grant funding to improve science and math instruction in middle and high schools.

The governor's office is brokering a deal to keep the doors open at Bennett County Hospital, an isolated critical-care facility on the Nebraska border that has been plagued by financial problems.

Attorney General Marty Jackley and Bennett County States Attorney Gay Tollifson announced today that Tera E. Gilger, 23, Martin, was sentenced to serve a total of 20 years in the State Penitentiary on one count of second degree manslaughter and one count of desertion of a child, both class 4 felonies, pursuant to a plea agreement reached with the ... (more)