Todd County News

ROSEBUD SIOUX RESERVATION - In an office filled with symbols of his Lakota heritage, Rodney Bordeaux ticks off the challenges facing his hardscrabble reservation: a short-staffed police department that can't keep up with crime, health care resources that barely cover half the tribe's needs, public housing so scarce the waiting list has more than ...

A Minnehaha County man in his 60s is the fourth South Dakota resident to die from the H1N1 influenza this season and the second this week.

Todd County is one of the poorest counties in South Dakota and the unemployment rate is at 10.1 percent.

School absences jumped and health officials scrambled Wednesday to fight the H1N1 flu virus spreading across South Dakota.

South Dakota's Health Department is confirming the state's second H1N1 flu-related death.

PIERRE - Neal Wanless, a young South Dakota rancher who won a $232.1 million Powerball prize four months ago, apparently is pursuing his dream of riding his horse and tending cattle on a spread a bit bigger than his 320-acre family ranch.

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says driver licensing stations will remain open in Mission and Wagner while 15 other sites are closed effective Thursday.

Fundraiser for Todd County Seniors The Todd County High School Senior class will have a fundraiser today, August 14th, from 11:00am to 4:00pm. The event is set to take place at the BIA campus next to the tribal building in Rosebud.

Todd County, South Dakota took the brunt of a severe storm which moved through between 7 and 8 o'clock tonight.

In this rural area where cows outnumber people, folks do whatever they can to help one another.

CBS) In Todd County, South Dakota, one of the nation's poorest places, the Wanless family struggled more than most.

The tiny, rural South Dakota town where lucky lottery cowboy Neal Wanless lives is Bob Barker's childhood home -- but it's not a place where people are used to being told to "come on down" for big windfalls.

If this were a movie, nobody would believe it: A rancher struggling to eke out a living in one of the poorest corners of America claimed one of the biggest undivided jackpots in U.S. lottery history Friday _ $232 million _ after buying the ticket in a town by the name of Winner.

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A 23-year-old South Dakota man has been indicted for involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 60-year-old White River man.

South Dakota's average age ticked up again from 2000 to 2008, its estimated Hispanic population almost doubled and Shannon County is listed in three national rankings, according to state and county population estimates by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

President Obama wants to close 5,000 "chronically underperforming" schools and reopen them with new teachers and principals.

School officials from as far away as Texas were in Sioux Falls on Wednesday hoping to lure teaching candidates at the annual South Dakota Teacher Job Fair.