Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and the proposed Powertech uranium mine near Edgemont are outraged that an emergency response drill in Hot Springs last week portrayed them as domestic terrorists. In the drill scenario on Tuesday the 14th, a fictional letter to the Hot Springs school district threatened that “things dear to everyone will [...]
Police in Lincoln this morning arrested one of the anti-alcohol activists accused of vandalizing two beer trucks in Whiteclay earlier this month. 33-year old T-R McKenzie, a member of the group Deep Green Resistance, is the first person arrested for the incidents on the 3rd and 13th. McKenzie, of Jefferson, SD, was taken into custody [...]
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission took about 90 minutes of testimony this morning in Chadron on a proposed mountain lion hunting season, then postpone action until its next meeting in July. The commission received nearly 30 written comments before the hearing…nearly all opposing the hunting season…then heard live testimony from 20 others…about 2/3rds of [...]
The biggest current question in Nebraska politics…will Republican Governor Dave Heineman run for the U-S Senate seat being given up by Mike Johanns next year…is about to be answered. Heineman, who is term-limited after next year, says he and his wife Sally are still weighing the pros and cons of a different lifestyle and whether [...]
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Authorities are searching for an inmate who left his work assignment at the Rapid City minimum-security facility. A release from the South Dakota Department of Corrections says 54-year-old Freddy Lawrence left the Rapid City Minimum Unit Wednesday morning. The department says security cameras show Lawrence left the facility on a [...]
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard says he will call the legislature into a special session sometime late next month to deal with cost overruns in the construction of a new State Veterans Home in Hot Springs. The Legislature earlier this year approved $41.3 million dollars in state and federal money for the project, but the [...]
Western Nebraska Community College has purchased a 32-year old business jet for use in its aviation maintenance program at the school’s Sidney Campus. A U-S Department of Labor grant provided 55% of the funding for the plane, whose flight from Florida to Sidney on Wednesday will be its last. WNCC President Dr Todd Holcomb says [...]
Crews began paving operations today on the latest phase of South Dakota’s portion of the Heartland Expressway, widening Highway 385 to 4-lanes in the Oelrichs area. Work on the $25-million dollar project is slated to continue to mid-July with Loiseau Construction of Flandreau the prime contractor. The paving operations will begin one-half mile north of [...]
LINCOLN, Neb. – Birders of all ages and experience levels are invited to join the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission for Northwest District Birding Day on May 29 at the Buffalo Creek Wildlife Management Area (WMA), south of Gering and just east of the Wildcat Hills State Recreation Area. Groups of birders will leave from [...]
South Dakota authorities have identified the man found dead in a drainage ditch in Rapid City on Monday as 65-year-old James Tracke, whose last known address was in Pine Ridge. The Rapid City Police Department says employees at a car dealership discovered Tracke’s body late Monday afternoon, and that it appears he had been dead [...]