SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, Aug. 20 -- Sanford Health issued the following news release on Aug. 19, 2025: * * * Sanford Pentagon to celebrate 100th DI game in November SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The Sanford Pentagon's 2025-26 events schedule includes a milestone matchup in November marking the 100th NCAA Division I basketball game played on Heritage Court. The landmark game takes place on Nov. 10 and features Iowa State and Mississippi State. Throughout the season, the Sanford Pentagon will commemor  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following commentary: * * * South Dakota's Greatest Generation * Eighty years ago this month, Americans switched on their radios and heard the long-hoped-for news that Japan had surrendered. In towns across South Dakota, people celebrated, and families breathed a sigh of relief that their loved ones would be coming home. Like all Americans, South Dakotans had made sacrifices during the war years. Food and fuel were rationed  more

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, Aug. 22 -- Sanford Health issued the following news release: * * * Three Sanford researchers awarded major grants from NIH SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Sanford Research has been awarded more than $8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study ovarian cancer, binge eating disorders and G protein-coupled receptor (GCPR) signaling. Dr. Leah Irish, associate professor of psychology at North Dakota State University and adjunct faculty with Sanford Research, re  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (TNSFR) -- The University of Kansas has completed its inventory of Native American human remains as required by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The university's analysis has determined a cultural affiliation between the remains of at least nine individuals and 3 Indian tribes. The remains were originally excavated in 1946 from the Woodruff Ossuary Site in Phillips County, Kansas, during a Smithsonian Institute survey for the Harlan County   more