During a special legislative session Tuesday, members of the South Dakota House of Representatives approved the list of their members who will serve on the committee tasked with determining if impeachment proceedings move forward against the state’s attorney general. Speaker of the House Representative Spencer Gosch (gosh) of Glenham appointed himself and eight members to…… read more »
As Vermillion became the first school in South Dakota to implement a transgender restroom policy Monday, a South Dakota lawmaker is ready to take action against the policy on the state level during session starting in January. State Representative Fred Deutsch of Florence has been an outspoken critic of these types of transgender bathroom policies……… read more »
The students and staff of Yankton Middle School will be having their 16th annual Veteran’s Day Celebration Wednesday. Yankton Middle School Principal Dr. Heather Olson says that at 9:00 AM, Wednesday, November 10th the celebration will be held at the Yankton Middle School South Gym. Olson invites the community to join the students and staff…… read more »
The Vermillion School District Monday night became the first school district in South Dakota to implement a transgender restroom policy. The School Board, on a three to two vote, approved the policy that will allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that correspond with the gender in which they identify with. Former Vermillion Mayoral Candidate…… read more »
South Dakota lawmakers are at a stalemate after meeting in Pierre earlier this week to try and approve new legislative district maps. The new districts have to be redrawn after each ten-year census. Representative Mike Stevens of Yankton says it’s an unsettled situation… Stevens says he has looked at the different proposals for his own…… read more »
The Yankton School Board was presented with a petition Monday evening requesting the mask mandate be removed within the Yankton School District. Yankton School District parent Stacey Nickels presented a petition to the board with over seven hundred community signatures all in agreeance to remove the district wide masking mandate. Nickels says this mandate was…… read more »
One man was injured in an accident west of Yankton early Monday morning. On Monday at 4:23AM, the Yankton County Sheriff’s Office responded to an injury accident on Highway 50 & 433rd Avenue. Yankton County Chief Deputy Sheriff Michael Rothschadl says two vehicles were traveling eastbound on Hwy 50 when 37-year-old Thomas Massman of Tabor was…… read more »
After last week’s COVID-19 vaccine approval for youth ages five through eleven, the Yankton Medical Clinic and Avera Sacred Heart Hospital are teaming up to offer a pair of clinics to help get area youth vaccinated this week. The clinics are set for Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. and Thursday from 4-6 p.m. at the Avera…… read more »
The Yankton Police Department was involved in a vehicle pursuit early Saturday morning. Yankton Police Chief Jason Foote says that on Saturday morning just after midnight, an individual flagged down a Yankton police officer in the 100 block of East 3rd street to report a possible drunk driver in a silver sedan heading north. Foote says…… read more »
A Yankton man charged with embezzling over a quarter of a million dollars from the local VFW Post will spend eight years in the South Dakota State Penitentiary. 37-year-old Colin Reisner appeared in Yankton County Circuit Court Monday morning for his sentencing. Circuit Judge Cheryle Gehring sentenced Reisner to fifteen years in the state pen,…… read more »
