Lincoln County News

Farmer and businessman David L. Anderson has been appointed to the vacant seat in the South Dakota House of Representatives.

Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have begun their preliminary damage assessment this week in Sioux Falls and Minnehaha and Lincoln counties.

A man escaped from a burning pickup truck, along with his young grandson, Saturday evening at the Canton exit on Interstate 29.

Authorities say a man rescued his 5-year-old grandson from a burning truck at a gas station near Canton in southeastern South Dakota.

Following a second straight year when it has received too little federal money to do any construction, the board of the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System is considering dramatic options to complete the project.

Sioux Falls is turning its focus to parks, sports fields, golf courses and waterways as city officials wrap up a first pass through neighborhoods to pick up downed branches after this month's ice storm.

In 14 days, petitioners who oppose an ordinance updating the city's zoning laws collected more than 6,500 signatures, in hopes of having enough signatures to put the issue to a public vote.