RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: The recent discovery of zebra mussels in South Dakota's Lake Sharpe has prompted the Bureau of Reclamation to immediately require all motorized watercraft to launch and retrieve from designated boat ramps at Belle Fourche Reservoir. "Reclamation, South Dakota Game Fish and Parks, and the Belle Fourche Irrigation District are concerned that zebra mussels will make t  more

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Midwest Excavating LLC for exposing employees to trench cave-in hazards at a jobsite in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The company faces penalties of $58,343. OSHA initiated an inspection of the jobsite after receiving a complaint of employees allegedly work  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * - A public hearing will be held in Hot Springs, South Dakota on October 5th, 2019 * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting public comment on two Underground Injection Control (UIC) Draft Area Permits and one associated proposed aquifer exemption decision for the Dewey-Burdock uranium in-situ recovery (ISR) site located near Edgemont, South Dakota, under the authority   more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 24 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District will conduct vegetation management activities on sandbars in the Missouri River between Yankton and Vermillion, South Dakota as well as the upper portion of Lewis and Clark Lake near Springfield, South Dakota and Niobrara, Nebraska during September 2019. The Corps is conducting the work in an effort to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable   more