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Rapid City Hosts Open House and Speaker Panel on January 16 to Shape New Comprehensive Plan
RAPID CITY, S.D. – The next step in the evolving process to develop the new Rapid City Comprehensive Plan includes an open house next week featuring a speaker panel event. The City’s Community Development Department will host the event Thursday, January 16 at 4:30 p.m. at the Dahl Arts Center. The first hour will serve as an open house followed by the speaker panel event from 5:30-7 p.m. The speaker panel event will feature personal stories from community members, organizations and Rapid City experts reflecting on shared community experiences, successes celebrated and hopes for the future. Each speaker will focus on a specific area of the Comprehensive Plan.
Rep. Dusty Johnson Reintroduces Bill to Protect Wounded Knee Massacre Site as Memorial and Sacred Land
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Rep. Dusty Johnson is reintroducing the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act. The act preserves a section of the land on the Pine Ridge Reservation where hundreds of Lakota were massacred by the U.S. Army in 1890. The bill passed the House in 2023 but was never signed into law. The Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe purchased the land together in 2022. The two then signed a covenant saying the land should be held and maintained as a memorial and sacred site. The bill grants continued outright ownership to both tribes and applies restricted fee status to be held by the tribes.
Trudeau resigns
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that he will resign as both the country’s leader and head of the ruling Liberal Party once a new leader is selected. Trudeau, 53, has led the Liberal Party for 11 years and served as prime minister for nine but has recently faced increasing challenges, including Donald Trump’s tariff threats, the resignation of key allies, and plummeting poll numbers. With a general election looming later this year, his decision to step down may be seen as a strategic move to leave before facing likely defeat. Canada’s parliament will be suspended until March 24 to allow the party time to choose a new leader.
Jimmy Carter will be honored in Washington, a city where he remained an outsider
WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter’s state funeral moves to Washington after observances in his native Georgia. The 39th president’s remains will leave the Carter Presidential Center on Tuesday morning and fly to Washington aboard Special Air Mission 39. The Carter family and former president will arrive at Joint Base Andrews, with a motorcade following to the U.S. Navy Memorial. Carter’s flag-draped casket will be transferred to a horse-drawn caisson for his final journey to the Capitol. Carter is the only U.S. Naval Academy graduate to become president. Members of Congress will honor Carter in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday afternoon. The ceremonies carry some irony for the one-term president who campaigned as an outsider in 1976 and never mastered the city.
North Korea says it tested hypersonic intermediate range missile aimed at remote Pacific targets
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea says its latest weapons test was a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to strike targets in the Pacific as leader Kim Jong Un vowed to further expand his collection of nuclear-capable weapons to counter rivals. The report Tuesday came a day after South Korea’s military detected the launch. North Korea demonstrated multiple weapons systems last year that can target its neighbors and the United States, including solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles, and there are concerns that its military capabilities could advance further through technology transfers from Russia, as the two countries align over the war in Ukraine. Kim reiterated that his nuclear push was aimed at countering threats posed by hostile forces but didn’t directly mention the U.S.
The next round of bitter cold and snow will hit the southern US
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The next round of bitter cold is set to envelop the southern U.S., after the first significant winter storm of the year blasted a huge swath of the country with ice, snow and wind. The immense storm system brought disruption even to areas of the country that usually escape winter’s wrath, downing trees in some Southern states and threatening a freeze in Florida. The National Weather Service said the wind chill temperature was 16 at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport early Tuesday. A low-pressure system is then expected to form as soon as the next day, bringing snow to parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Bird Flu
Louisiana has reported the first human death from H5N1 bird flu in the United States. The patient, over 65 years old with underlying health conditions, was hospitalized with severe bird flu after exposure to a backyard flock and wild birds. State health officials confirmed their investigation found no other human cases connected to this infection. A recent CDC study of the first 46 human H5N1 cases in the U.S. last year revealed that nearly all were mild. While the risk to the general public remains low, health officials urge caution for backyard bird keepers and workers on poultry and dairy farms.
