Current National and State News

  • Grant helps nursing home upgrade sprinkler system

    The sprinkler system upgrade at Kadoka Nursing Home is a federally mandated requirement for long-term care facilities. Without the upgrade, the home would have to close in 2013.

  • The Brookings Institution takes the nation's pulse

    AN INDEX of THREE FACTORS Bipartisanship has all but vaporized, incumbents’ approval ratings have plummeted and the nation is struggling to pull itself out of the Great Recession for which both par...

  • Wide-open spaces provide room to sing, play, pray and hug

    WORTHING - Just as the pioneer homestead has been succeeded by modern farms thousands of acres in size, is it any wonder then that out here in the country south of Sioux Falls the annual Christian mus...

  • Mayor pushing plan behind closed doors

    In eight days, the Sioux Falls City Council will vote on the early stages of events center funding. But Mayor Mike Huether has not publicly revealed his plan - although he has talked privately about a...