Pine Ridge

RAPID CITY (AP) — A 52-year-old Pine Ridge man has been fined $2,200 and sentenced to three years of probation for shooting a pregnant cow. The Rapid City Journal reports that George Ecoffey and another man were hunting turkeys when they shot the cow last year on a ranch near...

RAPID CITY (AP) — A group of Oglala Lakota tribal members say they’re close to putting a measure on the November ballot that would ask local voters whether they should rename Shannon County to something that better reflects its residents. Shannon County makes up the majority...

PINE RIDGE (AP) — The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has voted to not impeach President Bryan Brewer after he was suspended last month over allegations that he acted without the council's approval on two occasions and mishandled a $5,000 check. KOTA-TV reports that council members...

PINE RIDGE (AP) — Suspended Oglala Sioux President Bryan Brewer says allegations against him are unfounded. The Tribal Council suspended Brewer last week following allegations that he acted without the council's approval on two occasions and mishandled a $5,000 check. The council...

RAPID CITY (AP) — Federal grand jurors have indicted 10 people from Rapid City and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on drug distribution and conspiracy charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office says the allegations stem from the distribution of cocaine and marijuana from 2005, mainly...

PINE RIDGE (AP) — A Pine Ridge woman accused of causing the death of her infant grandson has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Fifty-one-year-old Cheryl Jealous of Him initially faced a murder charge in the April 2013 death of a 17-month-old boy in Pine Ridge. U.S. Attorney...

By Matt Volz HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Twenty-one American Indian reservations will be the focus of the next phase of a $1.9 billion program to buy fractionated land parcels owned by multiple individuals and turn them over to tribal governments, Interior Department officials said...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Authorities say a Pine Ridge man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for sexually abusing an unconscious female. U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says 20-year-old Daniel Tobacco was sentenced on Tuesday. He was convicted following a federal jury...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Interior says more than 16,000 land buyback offers have been sent to owners of parcels on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The offers total more than $100 million and will allow landowners to voluntarily sell their so-called...

South Dakota voters in 2010 rejected a proposal to legalize medicinal marijuana, but a majority of Shannon County voters supported it.

PINE RIDGE — Six students have been awarded the prestigious Horatio Alger Scholarship at Red Cloud Indian School — twice the number of any school in South Dakota and the most the school has had in a single year. The scholarship supports deserving young people who have overcome...

KYLE (AP) — A Pine Ridge Indian Reservation company that makes the buffalo-meat-and-cranberry Tanka Bar has rebranded its product line. Native American Natural Foods President Mark Tilsen said that included coming up with shrink-wrapped packaging to better protect the snacks. ...