PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Things are cooling off some after a week of Heat Advisories for South Dakota. And while the serious heat has backed off some, summer is far from over... Triple-A data indicate heat and not cold weather causes more battery-issues for motor vehicles than any other issue. Last year, nearly 82-hundred cal...

FORT PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Just days after fire restrictions were put in place by the Bureau of Land Management for land they oversee in Stanley, Haakon and Ziebach Counties, the United States Department of Agriculture has implemented Stage One fire restrictions with the Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands. The restri...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Pierre City Commission this week approved two street closure requests at the request of contractors looking to do work under those roads. Construction and Operations Manager Josh Bible says the first request is for Lowell Avenue just east of Wal-Mart... A similar closure was approved recent for a ...

PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The news this week of a 69-million dollar state budget surplus is good news ahead of eventual preparation for next year's state budget. District 24 Representative-elect Mike Weisgram is encouraged by the fact 17-million of the 69-million dollar surplus is from increased revenues... Representative-elec...

PIERRE, (KCCR) --- Three South Dakota students were honored recently for their work in helping to commemorate America's 250th Birthday including an elementary school student from Pierre. Freedom 250 and the National Endowment for the Humanities honored regional, People's Choice and National Winner during a special cere...

The college football season is starting to ramp up and not just because of the new College Football video game. With just a little over a month away from the first games, media days took place this past week and Lincoln Kienholz, quarterback at Louisville stepped to the podium to answer questions and talk about the upc...

It would be a high scoring first game of a crucial four game series as the Casper Spuds would take the win 14-9 over the Oahe Zap to move to three and a half games ahead of Oahe. The Zap can still get within a half a game of the Spuds by the end of the series, but don't want the lead for the Spuds to get too far out wi...

The dynasty in which the Pierre Governor Football team has grown to be in the last decade has it's own stories within the years and Steve Steele, the head coach of the Governors in this dynasty run tells those stories in his new book which is now available. The Governor football team has won eight of the last nine stat...

The Oahe Zap would be looking for the four game sweep of the Spearfish Sasquatch on Wednesday, but the Sasquatch found its groove offensively turning up a 19-0 win to salvage a game in the series. After Oahe outscored Spearfish 25-7 in the first three games of the series, Spearfish was determined to not be swept and pu...

The South Dakota United U16 Soccer squad will be in Denver, Colorado beginning next week competing at the National Cup in the Premier Division with three guaranteed games as six members come from the Pierre Governors. Aubrey Fischer, Brittany Sargent, Cameron Larson, Josephine Wurtz, Myah Fravel and goalie Emyln Swanso...

China is pushing to expand its influence over the future of artificial intelligence as competition with the USA continues to grow. CNN reported that P...

President Donald Trump is reviewing a wider range of military options against Iran as tensions remain high across the region. CNN reports that the dis...

President Donald Trump has dropped a proposal to charge a 20% fee on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The plan had been presented as a way ...

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