A La Niña winter just started, but it isn’t expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.

The seventh “Hockey Day South Dakota” celebrated hockey in the state on Saturday and featured four games in the Denny Sanford. Click on the video viewer to watch highlights of one of those games featuring: -Sioux Falls West Flyers boys defeating the Mitchell Marlins 5-1.

The Illinois football team reached into the transfer portal for a pair of players from two of the top FCS football programs in the nation.

Eric Eidsness and Dan Jackson took jobs at Northern Illinois. Jason Eck was named head coach of Idaho. Brian Bergstrom became head coach of Winona State, Rob Erickson at Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Northwestern scooped up young offensive coordinator Zach Lujan and defensive line coach Christian Smith.

Iowa St. at West Virginia, 1 p.m. Ohio St. at Penn St., 1 p.m. Seton Hall at UConn, 1 p.m. William & Mary at Northeastern, 1 p.m. North Carolina at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m. Hofstra at Elon, 1 p.m. LSU at Florida, 1 p.m.

Tulane at Temple, 1 p.m. La Salle at UMass, 2 p.m. Rice at FAU, 1 p.m. Memphis at Charlotte, 3 p.m. Youngstown St. at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Jacari White’s 32 points led North Dakota State over South Dakota 103-77 on Saturday.

Isaiah Griffin had 23 points in Idaho State's 86-61 victory over Montana on Saturday night. Griffin shot 10 for 17, including 3 for 5 from beyond the arc for the Bengals (8-8, 3-2 Big Sky Conference).

South Korea has decided to extend to April 18 the shutdown of Muan international airport where a Jeju Air passenger jet crashed last month, the transport ministry said on Saturday. South Korea ...

A month after filing a formal comment lettering opposing the request, Attorney General Gentner Drummond announce that theU.S. Environmental Protection Agency (

The president-elect is using his political influence to draw leaders to his exclusive Palm Beach club, elevating its profile—and likely helping its bottom line.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley supports a Louisiana law that requires all kindergarten through 12th grade schools and state-funded universities to