01/24/2012 - Rapid City Man Killed In Weekend Crash In Arizona
A South Dakota man died over the weekend in a traffic crash in Arizona.
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01/12/2012 - SD corn production up in 2011, soybean crop down
(01-12) 08:50 PST Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota farmers produced more corn but fewer soybeans last year compared to 2010. The Agriculture Department in its annual production report estimates South Dakota's 2011...
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01/12/2012 - Winter wheat seedings down in SD, up in ND
(01-12) 09:32 PST Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP) -- Winter wheat seedings this season dropped in South Dakota but rose in North Dakota. The Agriculture Department says winter wheat seeded last fall for harvest this year totaled...
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01/04/2012 - Lack of snow not good for SD winter wheat, alfalfa
(01-04) 08:05 PST Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP) -- The lack of snow in South Dakota is causing concerns for winter wheat and alfalfa farmers, but the mild temperatures so far this winter have been good for livestock. The...
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12/22/2011 - Wyoming tops state economic index
Wyoming tops state economic index Bloomberg News Published Dec 22, 2011 04:36PM MDT Washington • Wyoming, South Dakota and Michigan outperformed the rest of the United States in the third quarter, a Bloomberg measure of economic health shows, as the central states benefited from demand for commodities and automobiles. The Bloomberg Economic Evaluation of States (BEES) illustrates how ...
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12/24/2011 - McGovern expects to return to St. Augustine in January
After former U.S. Sen. George McGovern fell and hit his head three weeks ago in his home state of South Dakota, his family listed his St.
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12/09/2011 - Association says foreclosure rate should drop soon
Recent real estate mortgage data indicates that South Dakota is on the verge of bringing down its foreclosure rate, the head...
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12/09/2011 - SD association says foreclosure rate should drop
Recent real estate mortgage data indicates that South Dakota is on the verge of bringing down its foreclosure rate, the head of the South Dakota Bankers Association said.
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12/08/2011 - September SD foreclosure rate up from last year
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) _ A real estate research firm says the foreclosure rate in South Dakota increased for the month of September from last year.
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11/29/2011 - Schools may avoid cuts, see slow rebound
BELLE FOURCHE – Schools in South Dakota may not face additional cuts from next year’s state aid budget, according to Wade Pogany, the new executive for the Associated School Boards of South Dakota.
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11/16/2011 - D.C.’s 5th and 6th Walmarts Will At Least Get Urban Design Right
You may have heard by now about Walmart's plans to open two more stores in D.C.: One at JBG's Fort Totten Square at South Dakota and Riggs Road NE and another in Ward 7's Skyland Town Center . You might feel overwhelmed by that many Walmarts coming to our little city, frustrated that there's still no city-wide community benefits agreement, or delighted that it's all happening.
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11/24/2011 - Gov. Arne Carlson Blog: Denny Sanford…. Another Minnesota 'Great' | Minnesota Blog Cabin
Gov. Arne Carlson Blog: Denny Sanford…. Another Minnesota 'Great' By Gov. Arne Carlson | Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011 Recently, on a flight back to Minneapolis, I was reading the Delta magazine and came across a special feature on South Dakota. The centerpiece focused on the extraordinary generosity of Denny Sanford who endowed a major breast cancer research and treatment center. Appropriately, it ...
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11/19/2011 - Daugaard looks to lure California businesses
South Dakota officials are trying to lure a significant California startup company to the Rapid City area next year.
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11/17/2011 - How Leona Helmsley Is Revolutionizing Health Care in the Midwest
(Updated) The South Dakota prairie is a world away from the luxury hotels of New York City, where the late Leona Helmsley ruled a $5 billion real estate empire. But it is here, in the grassy plains and rugged hills … Continue reading ?
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10/21/2011 - T-Rex fossil on display at DaVinci Academy
Individuals at work on the Hell Creek dig site in South Dakota where "Tinker" a 70 million year old juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered. (Photo courtesy Gainesville State College)
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10/15/2011 - Marketing rural properties training for Realtors
A continuing education program for Realtors who market rural properties is set for 8:30 a.m., on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at South Dakota State University's West River Ag Center, 1905 Plaza Drive, Rapid City.
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10/10/2011 - Reports: Iglesia ni Cristo buys town in South Dakota
The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), a religious group founded in the Philippines, now owns the nearly abandoned town of Scenic, South Dakota, for $700,000 or roughly P30,000,000, a local newspaper in the United States has reported.
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10/10/2011 - Outlook uncertain for Iglesia’s ghost town
SCENIC, South Dakota—The saloon is long empty. The roadside jail cells, rusted and worn. Even the swing sets peek from behind knee-high brush after decades of neglect.
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10/09/2011 - Iglesia ni Cristo buys a town in South Dakota
GMA: The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), a religious group founded in the Philippines, now owns the nearly abandoned town of Scenic, South Dakota, for $700,000 or roughly P30,000,000, a local newspaper in... Proud To Be Kapuso! Visit Us! http://gmaseven.blogspot.com | Spread and Vote - The Kapuso Online Awards, A Viewer's Choice Special http://votegma7.blogspot.com/ | FOLLOW US ON TWITTER http ...
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10/08/2011 - Future Unknown For Ghost Town Bought By Church
The saloon is long empty. The roadside jail cells, rusted and worn. Even the swing sets peek from behind knee-high brush after decades of neglect. This tiny exclave just west of South Dakota's badlands is officially an old ghost town. But its future is shrouded in new mystery.
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10/03/2011 - Shannon County to Build New School with Citi Financing
Through the support of GROW South Dakota and the Shannon County School District, a new educational facility for Batesland is under construction. Located ...
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10/02/2011 - Distinguished Alumni To Be Honored At USD’s Dakota Days Alumni Banquet
VERMILLION — Three distinguished alumni from The University of South Dakota will be honored with Alumni Achievement Awards during Dakota Days. Recipients will be presented with their awards during the alumni banquet at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7 at the Muenster University Center.
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09/20/2011 - S.D. Stockgrowers bring annual convention and trade show to town
Cattlemen from across the region will head to town this week for the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association’s 120th annual convention and trade show, which begins Wednesday evening at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center.
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09/17/2011 - Slow Growing ...
While South Dakota banks continue to outperform national averages, loan growth within the state remains weak, according to a recent Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis report.
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09/02/2011 - Jurisch seeks settlement in auction complaint
Auctioneer Martin Jurisch has asked the South Dakota Real Estate Commission to consider resolving a case against him with a settlement agreement. The commission on Wednesday directed its legal counsel to pursue a settlement agreement in the case, in which Jurisch was accused of unprofessional conduct.
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08/23/2011 - Power line operator ITC Holdings names 3 to board
ITC Holdings Corp., a company that operates power transmission lines, announced Tuesday that it has appointed to its board former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, former South Dakota Gov. M. Michael Rounds and utility executive Christopher Franklin as independent directors.
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08/23/2011 - South Dakota revs up the siren song | The Glean
AFTERNOON EDITION South Dakota revs up the siren song By Brian Lambert | Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 Right into the wheelhouse comes an ad campaign from South Dakota. Sarah Reinecke of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader writes: “Halfway through a two-month effort aimed at businesses in more highly taxed states — Illinois, Minnesota and California — South Dakota has received what officials describe as 50 ...
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08/23/2011 - ITC Holdings Corp. Appoints J.C. Watts, Jr., M. Michael Rounds and Christopher H. Franklin to Board of Directors
ITC Holdings Corp. has appointed former U.S. Congressman J.C. Watts, Jr., former South Dakota Governor M. Michael Rounds and public utility executive Christopher H. Franklin to its board of directors as independent board members, effective August 17, 2011.
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08/19/2011 - Sold! $799,000 South Dakota Town Finds A Buyer
[gallery]Last month I reported on a highly unusual real estate listing: the entire town of Scenic, South Dakota (population: 9), on sale for $799,000. At the time, former rodeo star Twila Merrill, 74, was desperately seeking the right owner to take over the 12-acre township. Merrill has owned Scenic for almost 50 years but, faced with a cancer diagnosis, was forced to sell up.There wasn’t much ...
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08/17/2011 - SD Ranked A Top Business State
For the eighth year in a row, Pollina Corporate Real Estate has placed South Dakota on its list of top ten “Pro-Business States.” This year South Dakota is listed as the seventh best state in the nation for business. South Dakota was in eighth place last year.
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07/28/2011 - For sale: one town, slightly used
While house prices in most Australian capital cities are likely to remain expensive for some time, there's still a chance to realise the Great Australian Dream. For a little more than the price of an average home, you can buy the entire town of Scenic, population: eight. The catch is it's in the US state of South Dakota. The local estate agent says the town has enormous potential.
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07/27/2011 - Buy an Entire Town for Less Than $1 Million
Scenic, South Dakota, might not have much right now but a dance hall, a jail and a handful of out-buildings. It is a town in need of reviving and most of it could be yours for just $799,000.
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07/22/2011 - In Brookings ...Housing market healthy
While most of the U.S. housing market aims for recovery, Brookings joins the rest of South Dakota in boasting a continued healthy scenario for both buyers and sellers.
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07/11/2011 - South Dakota man has mixed feelings about space programs end
A South Dakota man who worked on the first space shuttle launch has mixed feelings about the program's end.
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06/28/2011 - SDSU study shows land values booming: Increase is third highest in past two decades
An SDSU study shows agricultural land values are booming again in South Dakota, charting a 16.5 percent increase in 2010-2011, the third-largest since South Dakota State University economists began tracking the farm real estate market in 1991.
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06/24/2011 - Value of SD ag land rises 16.5 percent
University economists report a 16.5 percent jump in the value of agricultural land in South Dakota the past year. That's the third largest increase since economists at South Dakota State University began tracking the farm real estate market in 1991.
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06/24/2011 - South Dakota Study Suggests Ag Land Values Are Booming
Agricultural land values are booming again in the Northern Great Plains, if a South Dakota study is any indication. The latest study from South Dakota State University economists suggests South Dakota land values charted a 16.5 percent increase in 2010-2011.
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06/23/2011 - Former South Dakota Oilseed Processor Facility Going to Bank-Owned Sealed Bid Auction Friday, July 29, 2011
MILLER, S.D.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--South Dakota oilseed processing facility and acreage to be auctioned by Maas Companies July 29 via sealed-bid, band-ordered auction. Facility capable of processing 375 tons of soybeans per day.
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06/23/2011 - Ingenious 'Flat Earth' Theory Revealed In Old Map
In 1893, Orlando Ferguson, a real estate developer based in South Dakota, drew a map of the Earth that combined biblical and scientific knowledge in a unique way. The map accompanied a 92-page lecture that Ferguson — referring to himself as a "professor" — delivered in town after town, traveling far and wide to share his theory of geography, highlighted by his belief that the Earth was flat.
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06/21/2011 - Citi and Dakotas America Partner to Allocate $24 Million in New Markets Tax Credit Financing to Expand Rockyford ...
Citi Community Capital, the community development lending and investing arm of Citi, in partnership with Dakotas America LLC, the primary recipient of new markets tax credits in the state of South Dakota, recently closed on a combined $24 million New Markets Tax Credit transaction that will finance the major rehabilitation and expansion of a facility used by the Shannon County School District as ...
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06/05/2011 - South Dakota Home Ownership Holds Steady Over Last Decade
The pursuit of that grandest of American dreams - a nice house with a white-picket fence - took a nosedive across America in the past decade. But not in Tonya Clyde's neighborhood in the little community of Henry west of Watertown. And not, apparently, across South Dakota, either.
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06/01/2011 - South Dakota Kitchen & Bath Wholesaler Assets & Inventory Auction
First National Bank of Yankton, South Dakota authorizes the real estate and inventory liquidation of a former kitchen and bath wholesale distributor via auction on Friday, July 8 at 10 a.m., 2900 Alumax Road in Yankton, South Dakota.
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05/10/2011 - Exec: S.D. Must Promote Itself
South Dakota has one of the best business climates in the country, but according to Slater Barr, president of the Sioux Falls Development Foundation, no one seems to know it.
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05/09/2011 - Baby boomers postpone retirement
DULUTH, Minn. #8212; Paul von Goertz and his wife, Mary, like to travel to Pennsylvania and South Dakota to visit their grandchildren. He also enjoys bringing the Civil War to life for schoolchildren in the guise of an infantryman with the First Minnesota Volunteers.
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04/26/2011 - Innovation Center breaks ground for second wing
Local and state officials broke ground Friday afternoon on the second wing of the Innovation Center at the South Dakota State University Innovation Campus.
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04/15/2011 - Chinese Prof. Joins USD Dean’s Lecture Series
VERMILLION —The University of South Dakota’s Beacom School of Business and State Senator Eldon Nygaard of Vermillion are co-sponsoring a presentation by Chinese Professor Bingquan Lu at 3:15 p.m. on Monday, April 18, in the auditorium of Beacom Hall.
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04/15/2011 - Chinese professor to present lecture at USD
VERMILLION, S.D. -- Chinese professor Bingquan Lu will present "New Economy: Government Sponsored Enterprise -- China" Monday as part of the Dean's Lecture Series at the University of South Dakota.
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04/15/2011 - A Rockin’ History
Young people across South Dakota were experiencing, at best, the afterglow of Bill Haley & His Comets when Bob Ellison, a student at Vermillion High School, decided to start his own band.
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03/24/2011 - Custom Home Now Finished in Master Planned Community
A new home has just been competed at the Elkhorn Ridge Golf Estates in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Local realtors are ready to provide private showings at the Master Planned Community.
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03/07/2011 - Keith Gall, South Dakota Sheriff, Oversees More Bison Than People
MCLAUGHLIN, S.D. -- Sheriff Keith Gall is known as the "singing sheriff" for his a cappella performances at weddings and funerals. But thanks to a judge, the gun-toting tenor now spends more time with a grunting, testy audience of some 6,000 bison that outnumber people in his South Dakota county.
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