Gene Hetland

Areas of the northeastern United States are feeling the effects of Sandy, and for some, those effects are going to stick around.

Consolidated Edison said Tuesday the power would be back on in Brooklyn and Manhattan within four days, but for other boroughs it could take a week

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A four-game World Series. The Fall Classic doesn't get any shorter.

Hats off to the San Francisco Giants, winners of four straight over the Detroit Tigers.

I've said before that I'm a Minnesota Twins fan, although this year was another tough one

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As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the northeastern United States, we here in the Northern Plains can sympathize, at least to a point.

No, we don't get hurricanes here, and we wouldn't know what to do if we did

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The answer to the question, of course, is one. One conviction for driving while intoxicated conviction is too many.

But there's a guy in Minnesota who was to get out of prison on Friday after serving time for his 27th conviction for drinking while driving

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Political observers tell us more people are voting early this year, and it continues a trend we've seen in recent years.

I'll bet more people would cast an early ballot if they knew it would stop the phone calls and the mailings, but there's no way to keep the barrage of political ads off the radio or television

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A lot has been said and is being said about former Senator George McGovern in the aftermath of his death, and I've thought of a couple of things I haven't passed along.

In his 1980 campaign for re-election, the one he lost to Republican Jim Abdnor, George McGovern was the reason Peter, Paul and Mary came to Sioux Falls to play a concert

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It was just a small amount of snow that fell in Sioux Falls Thursday morning, some of it before the sun came up.

And while it didn't amount to much, it did remind us of what we can expect off and on for the next five or six months

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Some days I wonder what kind of world we live in.

True, there is a lot of good news to be found, but some days I check the news services and can only shake my head.

For example, just a sampling of a few stories on Wednesday--just one day this week, and only around 25 stories sampled from the Associated Press

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I don't think I've talked much about this, even on the air, but I learned to read at a very young age.

I was four (4) years old and was with my dad in Madison, and we were walking into the Chevy dealership when I looked up over the door, pointed and said "Your Authorized Dealer

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The Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History released a Great Horned Owl and an Eastern Screech Owl Tuesday morning.

Zoo President and CEO Elizabeth Whealey says the owls, part of the Raptor Rehabilitation Program, were released at Blood Run Nature Area near Rowena

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