Several South Dakota lawmakers, including representatives Chris Kassin and Bill Shorma, have introduced a bill to create the McCook Lake contingency fund and put $2 million from the state budget into ...

Ice fishing experts and the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department remind anglers ice conditions continue to vary widely and water remains open on many lakes in eastern South Dakota.

Meanwhile, well below average snowfall has been common much farther north, such as in North Dakota ... jet stream often took wide, looping turns from western North America into the South, where ...