More than 130 Soldiers from the South Dakota Army National Guard’s 665th Support Maintenance Company in Mitchell have been activated for federal duty and will deploy to Europe to provide critical maintenance support for U.S., NATO, and partner forces. The unit will spend the next year at the Grafenwöhr Training Area in Germany.
Dakota Wesleyan University will close its offices Wednesday through Friday, Nov. 26–28, for the Thanksgiving holiday. Regular operating hours will resume Monday, Dec. 1.
A Sioux Falls woman lost more than $200,000 to a scammer posing as an FBI agent, prompting renewed statewide warnings during International Fraud Awareness Week. Officials urge residents to be cautious of texts, cryptocurrency demands, and high-pressure tactics.
The Mitchell City Council will consider multiple land-use requests, license transfers, infrastructure agreements, and a proposed 2026 employee compensation plan during its Nov. 17 meeting. Councilors will also review several change orders and upcoming public hearing dates.
State prison offender Shane Osterkamp, 44, died Nov. 14 in a comfort care setting at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield. Osterkamp had been serving sentences out of Hughes and Sully counties.
Officer Shanden Reiners has graduated from the Basic Law Enforcement Academy and will soon begin serving the Mitchell community. Reiners follows in the footsteps of his father, Bill, who served with the South Dakota Capitol Complex Police Department.
Governor Larry Rhoden announced that South Dakota will expand the South Dakota Partners in Education Scholarship program to allow donor tax credits for contributions to accredited public and private schools, marking a notable shift in education-funding policy and school-choice options.
South Dakota lawmakers have ordered annual performance reviews of the state Department of Education as student reading scores lag and nearly half of students read below grade level, according to Education Secretary Joe Graves. The move increases legislative oversight of student achievement.
