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While today's unemployment rates are significantly lower than the COVID-19 pandemic peak of 14.7% experienced in April 2020, the fear of job losses remains as workers stare down an uncertain economic future.

PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs will be hosting a“Coffee and Conversation” program in Gregory. This program is in partnership with Gregory County Veterans Service Officer

South Dakota's Burke and Gregory High School have come together to form Gregory County FFA and are preparing to send their first team to nationals.

Most of the county officials who administer elections in South Dakota don’t consider hand counting to be an effective or efficient method of tabulating votes.

South Dakota's Burke and Gregory High School have come together to form Gregory County FFA and are preparing to send their first team to nationals.

Nearly 90% of county officials who administer elections in the state don't find hand counts effective or efficient.

Kiepke wrote she has asked the sheriff’s office to attend each county commission meeting and asked for security while ballots are being counted on election nights, all due to safety concerns

The assertion that election officials are not being threatened or intimidated in South Dakota helped derail legislation this week at the Capitol in Pierre that would have criminalized those acts.

Oscar Micheaux was a homesteader in Gregory County, South Dakota who became a world-renowned novelist and filmmaker. He was a pioneer in making films specifically targeted to a black audience.

A bill aimed at changing the names of some geographic features in South Dakota, like Scalp Creek in south-central South Dakota, failed to make it out of the Senate State Affairs Committee Wednesday.