Local News
Increases In Drought Noted This Week Across Lyman, Brule And Tripp Counties
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Rain and snow in the forecast for this week may slow the continual expansion of drought across South Dakota. Areas of severe drought are now cropping up in parts of central South Dakota. Tripp County went from zero to 81-percent severe drought in one week. Severe drought is new to Brule County this we...
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Work On Elizabeth Street To Begin This Week
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Work on the Euclid Avenue reconstruction project is nearing the one-month point for 2026. T-J Gallagher with Morris Incorporated says this week Elizabeth Street will be shut down so work can begin there... For direct updates on the Euclid project, your encouraged to enroll in the South Dakota Departm...
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Mortenson Concerned About Future State Budgets
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- South Dakota's budget is in the books for next year however one District 24 legislator has concerns about the future budgets because of it. Representative Will Mortenson isn't running for reelection this year but has question marks about the budget's staying power... Fort Pierre has signed on as a mem...
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Ziebach County Added To Central South Dakota Enhancement District
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Ziebach County is now under the Central South Dakota Enhancement District. The move happened by way of an executive order signed by South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden on Wednesday. Planning and Development districts in the state were created in the late 1970's by former Governor Frank Farrar. The Cent...
Mar 29, 2026
Pierre Planning More Taxiway Expansion At Pierre Regional Airport
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Pierre City Commission this week approved seeking bids for another project at Pierre Regional Airport. City Engineer Nick Waters says the Taxiway C project will consist of new construction on the airfield... Bids are due for the project April 20th at four p-m.
Mar 27, 2026
Local Sports
Governor Tennis finishes 1-3 in West River Invite
The Pierre Governor tennis team would start 1-3 on the opening weekend of the season out west as the Govs beat Rapid City Central for its lone win of the weekend. On Thursday, Pierre dropped its two matches to Rapid City Christian and St. Thomas More both by the score of 7-2. Marty Blanchette helped get three of those ...
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Governors Sweep Tea to Even Record
The Pierre Governor baseball team would bounce back Sunday picking up a sweep of the Tea Titans with a 16-3 win in game one and 10-4 win in game two. Pierre never trailed on the day but Tea battled in each of the two games as game one saw a 3-0 lead for Pierre in the top of the third vanish in the fourth as Titans tied...
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Governors Drop Two One Run Games
The Pierre Governor baseball team will start the season 0-2 falling 5-4 and 3-2 to the Yankton Bucks Saturday night on the road. It was a four run first inning for Yankton in game one as Carter Boomsma and Christian Weier had back-to-back two RBI singles and Yankton looked like they were off and running. But Will Danbu...
Mar 29, 2026
Williams-Smith Wins Two Events, Sets New Meet Record as Governors Open up Track and Field Season
The Pierre Governor Track and Field season got underway with the Ruth Marske indoor meet on Saturday in Brookings and Charlee Williams-Smith picked up two wins for Pierre including setting a new meet record. Williams-Smith would win the 200 meters and 400 meters setting the new meet mark in the 400 with a time of 56.56...
Mar 29, 2026
Team South Dakota 14U Falls in Semifinals
Team South Dakota 14U girls would fall just short of making the USA Hockey National Championship with a 5-2 semifinal loss Saturday to the Seacoast Spartans of New Hampshire in Rochester, Michigan. Seacoast would take a 2-0 lead at the end of the first period, but Team South Dakota would battle back to make it 2-1 afte...
Mar 29, 2026
National News
Iran conflict widens as strikes continue and talks remain uncertain
Fresh military action kept tensions high on Monday as strikes were reported in Iran, and air defense activity was reported again over Israel after ano...
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Why Iran's Nuclear Program Is Back at the Center of Global Concern
A new analysis is raising fresh questions about how close Iran may be to having the option to build a nuclear weapon. The concern is not that a bomb h...
Mar 29, 2026
Trump Moves to Pay TSA Workers as Homeland Security Funding Fight Deepens
Travelers may soon find some relief at the airport gate. Following a Friday executive action, President Donald Trump has moved to restore pay for Tran...
Mar 28, 2026
National Sports
2026 NFL Draft: Joel Klatt's Top 50 Prospects Show Changing of the Guard in CFB
Is the Big Ten set to overtake the SEC as the best conference at developing NFL prospects? Joel Klatt examines that as he unveils his top 50 2026 NFL Draft prospects.
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NFL to Begin Hiring, Training Replacement Officials as Potential Ref Lockout Nears
The NFL is moving forward with plans to begin hiring and training replacement officials in the next several weeks.
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Last Night in Baseball: You Can't Stop the Blue Jays (Or At Least The A's Can't)
The Blue Jays sweep with multiple walk-offs, a Guardians' rookie has a huge weekend, Munetaka Murakami showed off his power, Freddie Freeman got a hug and more from the weekend's MLB action.
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