Highway fatalities reach five-year low in South Dakota
In 2025, South Dakota recorded 110 fatal crashes resulting in 123 deaths, marking a five-year low and a significant improvement…
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Operation: Prairie Thunder saturates Brookings without city cooperation, notification
An Operation: Prairie Thunder deployment has taken place in Brookings, weeks after previous plans to conduct saturation patrols there were…
South Dakota lawmakers to debate guns, government power, term limits
South Dakota lawmakers have already begun staking out policy ground weeks ahead of the start of the state’s 101st Legislative…
S.D. Highway Patrol conflated arrests made in Rhoden’s Prairie Thunder saturation
State troopers assigned to southeast South Dakota to hunt guns, drugs and violent offenders didn’t nab as many bad guys…
S.D. troopers score largest meth bust in state’s history
A traffic stop on Interstate 90 ended with South Dakota state troopers seizing more than 200 pounds of methamphetamine —…
Traffic ticket scam hits South Dakota
Another text-message scam has been making the rounds in South Dakota. This one is purportedly from the South Dakota Department…
Two WPD officers graduate from Law Enforcement Certification Course
Kendon Koep and Kaitlyn Schmeling of the Watertown Police Department were among 36 students who graduated on Friday, June 5,…
South Dakota Supreme Court upholds state revocation of driver’s commercial license in DUI case
A driver who holds a commercial driver’s license must submit to a blood draw or chemical analysis even if that…
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