Harding County News

Amid a push to expand South Dakota’s fledgling oil and gas industry, state lawmakers have a message for energy companies that use the controversial drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing: Come and get it.

Stuck with a veteran teacher they’d like to fire, Harding County School Board members want the state Legislature to end teacher tenure right away, not over time, as Gov.

Authorities in South Dakota are debating whether to let a ranch hand keep a mountain lion he shot out of a tree, or ticket him for it.

South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks officials are deciding whether a Harding County ranch hand can keep a mountain lion he killed while doing chores on another rancher's land.