Southeast Technical College congratulates its students completing their AAS, diploma and certificates at the end of the Spring 2025 semester. A commencement ceremony was held May 9 at the Sioux Falls Arena. Area students include: Samantha Reinartz of Gregory- Mechatronics Technology, Associate of Applied Science Summer Salonen of Gregory-Medical Coding, Associate of Applied Science

On July 12, 1879, Captain Charles Howell of the Corps of Engineers boarded the steamboat Miner at Sioux City. He was det ermined to go far up the Missouri to Fort Benton, Montana, to make a government survey of the river.

May is graduation season. Kids across South Dakota are looking forward to enjoying the summer, and they’re also looking ahead to whatever comes next.

On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Kathleen Wooden Knife declared a state of emergency on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Reservation. Stating that the tribe has, and continues to, experience “severe and pervasive law and order and public health issues related to the epidemic of meth and illicit drug use, drug trafficking, and gunrelated violence and other violent and unlawful activity creating severe and extreme threats to public safety, and the health and welfare of the general public,” she has called upon the United States Government, the U.S.

Who is the oldest person you know in South Dakota? Each year, the South Dakota Health Care Association’s (SDHCA) Century Club seeks to find the answer! If you know of a current living South Dakotan born before January 29, 1916, making this person at least 109 years young, he or she may be our state’s oldest living person! SDHCA would like to honor him or her with the 2025 Centenarian of the Year award. If you are aware of anyone living in South Dakota that was born before January 29, 1916, please reach out to LuAnnSeverson@sdhca.org at your earliest opportunity! In addition, any South Dakotan aged 100 or older is eligible to be recognized as part of SDHCA’s Century Club.

A Burke man who faked his own kidnapping and later violated a protection order while armed has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple felony charges stemming from two separate incidents in 2023 and 2024.