Category Archives: Local News
Special Legislative Session scheduled for new men's prison in Sioux Falls
South Dakota lawmakers are gearing up for a special legislative session later this month. They'll debate a proposal to build a new men's penitentiary in northeast Sioux Falls at an estimated cost of 6...
Sep 02, 2025 cboswell / Depositphotos.com
Sioux Falls Airport to being expansion project
A major expansion project at the Sioux Falls Airport gets underway later this week. Ground will be broken on a project to add a new concourse and five more gates. Airport officials say the expansion w...
Sep 02, 2025 An American Airlines airplane is seen at John F. Kennedy International Airport during the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant in Queens, New York City, U.S., December 26, 2021. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Sanford Health to purchase Lewis Drug
Sanford Health is buying the largest locally owned pharmacy chain in South Dakota. Lewis has more than 60 locations across the region, and has been a household name for 80 years. Sanford and Lewis hav...
Aug 29, 2025
A Sioux Falls woman is charged for making a terroristic threat
A Sioux Falls woman is in jail for allegedly threatening to shoot up the Minnehaha County Jail. Police found Emily Calvert just a few blocks away from the facility, with a BB gun in her car. She's cha...
Aug 29, 2025 David von Diemar / Unsplash
A Sioux Falls man arrested on child pornography and drug charges
A 60-year-old Sioux Falls man has been arrested on child pornography and drug charges. William Tillman was arrested by the Divisoin of Criminal Investigation after an investigation by the state's Inte...
Aug 29, 2025 ArturVerkhovetskiy / Depositphotos.com
Sioux Falls Fire and Rescue investigating an apartment fire
Sioux Falls Fire and Rescue is investigating a late-afternoon apartment fire on the city's southwest side. Crews found heavy smoke in a 3rd floor hallway of an apartment on Valhalla Boulevard when the...
Aug 29, 2025
A Sioux Falls man arrested for an incident involving a knife
A 37 year old Sioux Falls man faces aggravated assault charges for an incident involving a knife. Marvin Runs Close is accused of chasing three victims who had been in his apartment...threatening them...
Aug 29, 2025 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Tonight's South Dakota Lottery Powerball Jackpot is 815 Million Dollars
South Dakota Lottery players are on a hot streak as tonight's 815-million dollar Powerball Jackpot is up for grabs. There was a two-million dollar winner in Mobridge on Saturday. That's just two weeks...
Aug 27, 2025 S.D. Lottery logo.
Attorney General Marty Jackley and others are protecting children from AI chatbots
They're joining together to protect children from sexual conversations with AI chatbots. Attorney General Marty Jackley and 43 of his colleagues have sent a letter to leading AI companies, demanding t...
Aug 26, 2025 denisismagilov / Depositphotos.com
A teacher at George McGovern Middle School is a first prize winner
She's one of the National Heroes of the Classroom. George McGovern Middle School teacher Erin McFarland is one of ten national first prize winners in the Kleenex Brand tissue program. The Grand Prize ...
Aug 26, 2025 luminastock / Depositphotos.com
