SALEM, S.D.(WNAX)- McCook County was hit hard by the derecho and storms last month and the damages are still being assessed. Randy Sabers runs an insurance agency in Salem and says the damage is stunning. Sabers says the recovery process is underway. Sabers says rising costs will lead to some difficult decisions. Winds gusted over… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(KCCR)- Denver Air Connection had its best month of the year in May ferrying just shy of 1500 passengers from Pierre Regional Airport. A total of 1488 enplanements were logged in May.  Last year, May tallied 1,229 enplanements.   May’s 1488 compares to 1251 in April; 1249 in March and 999 in February.  Through five… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C.(KOTA)- Describing the current pains at the gas pumps as “policy induced,” South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says the ag economy is certainly feeling the pinch. As for the long-term outlook, Rounds didn’t mince words. Rounds reminds who is hurting the most in this situation. Rounds rejected the Biden Administrations current energy and economic… Read more »

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – A Republican candidate for the South Dakota House is withdrawing his candidacy amid a challenge from his Democratic rival over his eligibility for the race. Logan Manhart, who was running as a Republican for a District 1 House seat, says in a statement released on Twitter that he had received… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(KCCR)- A proposed carbon transport pipeline continues to have life after South Dakota regulators declined to approve a request to end the project.  Attorney Brian Jorde is representing a number of intervenors who are opposed to Summit Carbon Solution’s plan to pipe C-O-Two from ethanol plants in three states to North Dakota for storage. … Read more »

WATERTOWN, S.D.(KXLG)- On Tuesday the Watertown Library Board of Trustees met to discuss what to do on a personnel issue with the previous Director Dee Dee Whitman. Whitman was not present but called in to speak live over the phone. Board member Jean Moulton allowed Whitman to speak first. Whitman says she felt denied her… Read more »

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.(WNAX)- All South Dakota republican incumbents won their statewide races in Tuesday’s primary election. Governor Kristi Noem easily defeated state Representative Steven Haugaard of Sioux Falls by a seventy-six to twenty four percent margin. Congressman Dusty Johnson defeated state Representative Taffy Howard of Rapid City by a margin of fifty nine to forty… Read more »

SOUTH DAKOTA(WNAX)- South Dakota voters will have a chance in November to decide on Medicaid expansion. Erik Gaikowski, state director of AARP-South Dakota says they are supporting that. Gaikowski says without that expanded funding, many rural health care providers may close. Gaikowski says the state would also get hundreds of millions of federal dollars connected… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- Traffic fatalities in South Dakota are down compared to last year and the Highway Patrol is working to keep that trend going. As of the middle of May, thirty-six people had been killed on state highways, compared to fifty-four a year ago, a thirty three percent decline. There was also a thirty percent… Read more »