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South Dakota Park Rangers Bake Raw Cookies In Blazing Hot Car!
This was posted on the South Dakota Badlands National Park Facebook page... "It's been over a hundred degrees at Badlands for the last few days, so the rangers decided to make the best of it by testing a classic hypothesis - can you bake cookies in your car on a hot summer day?
How Many Towns Are Officially Part of the Sioux Falls Metro?
Sioux Falls is growing at a faster rate than at any other time in its history. Whether you believe that to be a good or bad thing is up for debate, but it's undeniably becoming one of the power cities of the Upper Midwest. Estimates vary, but the current population...
1 dies in motorcycle crash Saturday in Sioux Falls, police say
Officials with the Sioux Falls Police Department are investigating the cause of a crash that left a 21-year-old motorcyclist dead Saturday evening. Police, firefighters and paramedics responded at about 9 p.m. to the area of East 57th Street and South Rateliff Avenue, where a sedan and motorcycle collided, a press release from the department states. ...
Vermillion conducting another round of mosquito control fogging next week
VERMILLION, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The City of Vermillion Parks Department will conduct mosquito fogging from Monday, July 15 to Thursday, July 18, weather permitting. The targeted spray is planned in response to increased numbers of mosquito populations and follows a phased-response guideline created by the CDC. If you...
Excavation is complete for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
This interview originally aired on "In the Moment" on SDPB Radio. Excavation is complete for the caverns of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Yet, the experiment is years away from starting. Josh Willhite, project manager for the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility run by Fermilab,...
More chances for severe storms in Minnesota loom going into Monday
MINNEAPOLIS — Parts of Minnesota are still assessing damage after storms late Saturday and overnight left some with large hail, and others with high winds that knocked down trees and led to power outages for tens of thousands.And we may not be finished with the severe storms just yet. WCCO meteorologist Katie Steiner says that there's another chance for storms today, and Monday brings with it a marginal to slight risk of severe weather.Steiner says one silver lining is that the National Weather Service canceled the heat advisory for the Twin Cities. High temperatures could still flirt with 90 degrees,...
How does Alcester-Hudson Elementary rank according to the South Dakota state report card?
RAPID CITY, S.D. — South Dakota maintains a state Report Card system that grades each public school on a variety of metrics. We are sharing the results of the report card for every school to see how each school measures up. It is worth noting that these statistics only...
Photos show downed Twin Cities trees after overnight storms, large hail in other parts of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS – Strong winds tested the strength of trees across the Twin Cities metro area overnight, and some parts of the state saw monstrous hail stones as severe storms rolled through the region.More than 50,000 Xcel Energy customers were without power Sunday afternoon in Minnesota and Wisconsin, down from well over 100,000 reported earlier in the day.Multiple residents of Monticello reported seeing large hail late Saturday. Some of the photos shared with WCCO showed hail stones roughly the size of baseballs, including a shot from Brian Anderson, who captured one hailstone measuring about 4 inches in diameter.Other viewers sent similar...
SURF seeks to be the first to directly detect dark matter
This interview originally aired on "In the Moment" on SDPB Radio. The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility seeks to directly detect dark matter. Researchers Linda Di Felice and Ellie Bishop discuss the science of the experiment and why detecting dark matter would have huge ramifications for physics.
Severe Storms Are Possible in Minnesota Sunday Night
UNDATED (WJON News) -- Morning showers and thunderstorms move out leaving behind hot and humid conditions Sunday afternoon. Thunderstorms should develop upstream in the Dakotas Sunday evening and track into western Minnesota tonight into Monday morning. Storms could be strong to severe. The primary concern is damaging wind gusts and...
South Dakota Park Rangers Bake Raw Cookies In Blazing Hot Car!
This was posted on the South Dakota Badlands National Park Facebook page... "It's been over a hundred degrees at Badlands for the last few days, so the rangers decided to make the best of it by testing a classic hypothesis - can you bake cookies in your car on a hot summer day?
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