Leonard PeltierA parole hearing was held in Florida for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier. A decision is expected within 21 days. Peltier has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota. At 79, his health is failing, and if this parole request is denied, it might be a…
Voters in at least three rural South Dakota counties are set to decide Tuesday whether to return to counting ballots by hand, the latest communities around the country to consider ditching machine tabulators based on unfounded conspiracy theories stemming from the 2020 presidential election. The three counties, each with fewer than 6,000 residents, would be among the first in the…
SOUTH DAKOTA, (CNN/KVRR) – South Dakota governor Kristi Noem is now banned from all tribal lands in her home state. A Tuesday vote by the Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe executive council bars the republican governor from its reservation. That vote book-ended a ripple effect of nine tribes with reservations that stretch into South Dakota moving to prevent Noem from setting…
SOUTH DAKOTA (AP) – South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from entering nearly 20% of her state after two more tribes banished her this week over comments she made earlier this year about tribal leaders benefitting from drug cartels. The latest developments in the ongoing tribal dispute come on the heels of the backlash Noem faced for writing about killing a hunting…
BROOKINGS, SD (KVRR) – The University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks’ season ended after falling in extra innings to South Dakota in the first round of Summit League tournament, losing 6-5. UND battled back from a three-run deficit to tie it up in the seventh frame, but the Coyotes scored the final run in the bottom of the 10th. Jackie…
NDSU Softball (5/1/24, Aaron Walling)FARGO (KVRR) – The NDSU Bison softball program will be on the road this week for their final regular season series when they take on conference foes in South Dakota. The Bison are looking to bounce back from a series loss to Kansas City, and will face a South Dakota squad who is also at the…
Politicians and dog experts are criticizing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after she wrote in a new book about killing a rambunctious puppy. The story — and the vilification she received on social media — has some wondering whether she’s still a viable potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Experts who work with hunting dogs like Noem’s said she…
PIERRE, S.D. (KVRR) – Republican South Dakota governor Kristi Noem is facing a new lawsuit — for posting a 5-minute video about her teeth on social media. The infomercial-style video went viral — and features Noem praising dental work she had done in Texas. At one point in the video, she says quote “”I love that my bite is better,…
SOUTH DAKOTA, (AP) – South Dakota has apologized and will pay $300,000 under a settlement with a transgender advocacy group that sued Gov. Kristi Noem and her health secretary last year after the state terminated a contract with it. Attorneys for the Transformation Project announced the settlement Monday. The nonprofit sued last year after the state canceled the contract for a community health worker…
PIERRE, S.D.(KVRR/AP) — Sixteen and 17 year olds can still wed in South Dakota, with consent, after a legislative committee shot down an effort to raise the age to 18 by a vote of 8 to 5. The bills sponsor, Democratic Rep. Kadyn Wittman of Sioux Falls, says between 2000 and 2020, 838 minors got married in the state. 81…
