Gene Hetland

I saw a program on Public Television recently (Yup, I do watch it--I keep hoping I can become an investigator on "History Detectives") on the Seattle World's Fair of 1962.

It was, I suspect, produced by a public TV station in Seattle, but it hit home for me because I've been to the former fairgrounds twice, many years apart

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Every day we hear something about new concerns for our environment, and the latest one hits home, or could hit home, for most of us.

Seems that in citrus country, a disease called "citrus greening" is out there that harms the orange crop

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The Sioux Falls Police Department will make several changes to the School Resource Officer, or SRO, program for the new school year this fall.

In the past SROs were assigned to specific schools

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The trees and branches that came down in the April ice and snow storm in Sioux Falls are being ground up, but the public is being asked to stay away from the grinders.

A company called TFR Enterprises was hired by the city to grind the wood waste debris, and they began their work on Wednesday at the W-H Lyon Fairgrounds

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Sioux Falls police say a man exposed himself to a group of preschool children who were in the playground of a North End elementary school.

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A Sioux Falls man is facing several charges including rape for an alleged assault on a female relative.

Information Officer Sam Clemens says the juvenile told police she was sleeping Friday morning when she heard someone come into her apartment on North Lewis Avenue

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By now you've probably heard or read about the arrests of ten people in South Dakota through a federal investigation known as "Operation Black Widow."

Eight of the defendants are from Watertown, one is from Sioux Falls and

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I got a notice by e-mail (that's sent to news types all over the country) about a workshop to be held this fall at Hofstra University in New York that will target "suburban poverty,' and I have to admit the phrase was a new one to me

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It was a bogus online ad about a house for rent, and now a Sioux Falls man is out close to $900.

Information Officer Sam Clemens says the 40-year-old man told police he had seen an ad on Craigslist about a house for rent in the 1000 block of North Conklin Avenue

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It dawned on me the other day that May 5 was the 40th anniversary of my college graduation.

As you may know, I'm a proud Jackrabbit through and through, so commencement was in Frost Arena on the SDSU campus--the very first commencement in what was then a new building

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