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

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.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said the No. 1 threat to the U.S. is immigration at the southern border with Mexico.

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).

Colgate at Lafayette, 1 p.m. Maine at UMBC, 1 p.m. Mercyhurst at Wagner, 1 p.m. Albany (NY) at Binghamton, 2 p.m. Canisius at Fairfield, 2 p.m. Cornell at Penn, 2 p.m.

Appalachian St. at Marshall, 1 p.m. Bryant at Mass.-Lowell, 1 p.m. Bucknell at Navy, 1 p.m. CCSU at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 1 p.m. Fairfield at Canisius, 1 p.m. Manhattan at Niagara, 1 p.m. Penn at Cornell, 1 p.m. UMBC at Maine, 1 p.m. Wagner at Mercyhurst, 1 p.m. Army at Boston U., 2 p.m.

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Idaho State will aim to end its three-game road losing streak when the Bengals play Montana. The teams play Saturday for the first time this season. Montana is 2-3 against

Renville also pointed to South Dakota's unique place in the U.S. political sphere, with Noem set to lead the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Sen. John Thune taking over the Republican Senate leader spot and U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson working within a divided House of Representatives.

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on President-elect Trump’s Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by raising flags before the end of a

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