Category Archives: Local News

Teen Ticketed In Rollover Crash
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- No one was injured Monday in a two-vehicle rollover crash in Pierre. Pierre Police Captain Dusty Pelle says officers were called around three-pm to the intersection of Capitol and Mo...
Zach Nelson Jul 08, 2025

Pierre City Commission To Meet Tonight
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Pierre City Commission is meeting tonight at the Pierre Municipal Building. There is not much at all on the agenda. Only one action item will come before the Commission. That is ...
Zach Nelson Jul 08, 2025

Boys And Girls Club Of The Capital Area On The Scramble To Find GOLD Program Funds After Grant Frozen
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- At the beginning of the year, the Boys and Girls Club of the Capital Area announced the Stanley County GOLD program became a chartered entity of the Boys and Girls Club. Now with pas...
Zach Nelson Jul 08, 2025

Centerline Rumble Strips To Be Installed On Highways 83, 212 In Potter And Sully Counties
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Work is underway on a project to add center line rumble strips to U-S Highway 83 and U-S Highway 212 between Onida and Gettysburg in Sully and Potter Counties. Rumble strips have bee...
Zach Nelson Jul 07, 2025

Johnson Appreciative Of Support From Mortenson, Daugaard In Bid For Governor
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Last week, South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson announced he will run for Governor in 2026. Among those stumping for Johnson at his press conference and in Fort Pierre's 4th of Jul...
Zach Nelson Jul 07, 2025

Capitol Avenue Intersection Nearing Reopening On Euclid Reconstruction Project
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- As the first phases near completion on the Euclid Avenue reconstruction plans are being finalized for the next section of work. Morris Incorporated Operations Manager T-J Gallagher s...
Zach Nelson Jul 07, 2025

Pierre City Commission Approves Lease For SkyWest To Use Pierre Regional Airport
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The Pierre City Commission paved the way for United Express to call Pierre Regional Airport home for the next four years at the end of the month. Airport Manager Casey Pamperi...
Zach Nelson Jul 06, 2025

Lower Brule Man Given Two Year Prison Term For Assaulting Tribal Police
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- A Lower Brule man convicted of assaulting a Tribal police officer has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. U-S Attorney Alison Ramsdell says 32 year-old Thaddeus James Gran...
Zach Nelson Jul 05, 2025

Rounds Says Plenty Of Misinformation Surrounds Big Beautiful Bill
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- Congress passed President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" Friday with passage by the House of Representatives. Misinformation about the over 900 page bill has been abundant a...
Zach Nelson Jul 03, 2025

Capitol, Sioux To Be Fully Open To Traffic Soon.
PIERRE, (KCCR) -- The clock continues to tick down on the first phases of the Euclid Avenue reconstruction project. Morris Incorporated Operations Manager T-J Gallagher says crews had to move the fina...
Zach Nelson Jul 02, 2025