South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) is hosting a yearround activity with chances to win prizes for going outside and playing BINGO in 2022. The 2022 Go Outdoors BINGO activity has a total of four BINGO cards - one for each season - with five chances to win.

National nonprofit credit counseling agency Take Charge America shares tips to cure the postholiday financial blues The holidays may be over, but their financial impact is likely to add extra strain in the new year for the 36% of individuals who took on debt to pay for gifts, decorations, and more in 2021, according to LendingTree. “It’s easy to feel overwhelmed if you brought holiday debt into the new year,” said Michael Sullivan, a personal financial consultant with Take Charge America, a nonprofit credit counseling and debt management agency, but with a little focus and hard work, you can create a plan of action that will pay off that debt as quickly as possible so you can focus on your other big money goals for 2022, like buying a home or taking a dream vacation.” Sullivan shares six tips to help you quickly pay off your holiday debt: Stop using credit cards.

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg told state lawmakers last week that he has been unable to find funds to hire someone to coordinate tribal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to investigate missing Indigenous people.

On January 13, Governor Kristi Noem issued the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court blocking the OSHA vaccine mandate: “Our nation was built on freedom, on the belief that our rights come from God, not from government. Any infringement on our rights risks breaking the constitutional republic that we hold so dear.

Participants in the next book talk at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre will get a glimpse of what it was like to grow up in rural America in the 1950s. The Pfeiffer sisters, who grew up on a North Dakota farm in the 1950s, will share information from their recent book “While the Windmill Watched: A Slice of Rural America in the 1950s.” The free program will begin at 7:00 p.m.

We’ve all heard it: “New year, new you.” January 1 is the beginning of a new year and the day to begin New Year’s resolutions. But for man,y it doesn’t seem to be a good start date.