Hamlin County News

WASHINGTON - PBS is rebroadcasting a series on the Great Depression of the 1930s, an exodus decade that defined modern South Dakota more than any other.

A rural Hazel area man died in a hospital Tuesday morning from burns he received at a farmhouse.

A rural Hazel area man died in a hospital Tuesday morning from burns he received at a farmhouse.

A conservation easement program along the Big Sioux River is moving into Minnehaha County.

A rural Hazel area man died in a hospital Tuesday morning from burns he received at a farmhouse.

A single-engine plane was forced to make an emergency landing in a soybean field nine miles south of Kranzburg today.

A single-engine plane was forced to make an emergency landing in a soybean field nine miles south of Kranzburg today.

A tornado warning has been issued for southeast Clark County and southwest Hamlin County until 4 p.m. Shortly before 3 p.m., Doppler Radar indicated a tornado six miles northwest of Willow Lake, moving east at 25 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Aberdeen.

SDLake Poinsett,0154 Battle brewing over Lake Poinsett water ESTELLINE, S.D. A hearing is set for Thursday in Pierre in a battle that's brewing over water in Lake Poinsett , near Estelline.

Above and below South Dakota lies water - groundwater trapped in sandy, rocky deposits below the prairie and surface water that fills the state's lakes, creeks, streams and rivers.

The South Dakota Water Management Board is scheduled to decide July 9 whether to allow Big Sioux River water into Lake Poinsett in southern Hamlin County.