Gene Hetland

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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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The interim president at Dakota State University since February has been chosen by the Board of Regents to become the school's 22nd president.
David Borofsky  succeeds Douglas Knowlton, who left the South Dakota public university system earlier this year for a higher education position in Minnesota

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Word came Monday morning of the death of Russell Means.

The former American Indian Movement activist and actor died Monday morning at his ranch at Porcupine, according to a spokeswoman for the Oglala Sioux Tribe

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The South Dakota Department of Health says it has contacted 13 health care facilities in the state after they were identified as receiving drugs from a Massachusetts firm linked to a multistate outbreak of fungal infections, including meningitis

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Countless hunters will be out in the fields of South Dakota this weekend for the traditional opening of the annual pheasant hunting season, and state wildlife officials are optimistic.
For one thing, the Game, Fish and Parks Department says the mid-summer pheasant count estimated the statewide ringneck population to be up 18 percent from last year

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You're going to be hearing and reading a lot about George McGovern in the days ahead.

I think the first time I saw Mr. McGovern might have been in 1960, when he was running for the Senate and visited Salem for McCook County Achievement Days (I was a young 4-Her at the time)

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State officials say Andrew Steen, the Highway Patrol trooper injured Wednesday in an incident in Sioux Falls, underwent successful surgery early Thursday to relieve pressure on his brain.

Patrol Superintendent Col

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Unemployment in South Dakota dropped slightly from August to September, ending the month at a seasonally-adjusted rate of 4.4 percent.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says South Dakota's jobless rate has remained relatively stable during the first three quarters of this year, holding at 4

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