Victoria Wicks
Former SDPB Freelance Reporter/ProducerRapid City freelancer Victoria L. Wicks has been producing news for SDPB since August 2007. She Retired from this position in March 2023.
She has been a newspaper reporter, and she spent about 14 years advocating for crime victims in Rapid City and Aberdeen.
Victoria is also a creative writer; several of her short stories have been published, one of them in an anthology titled Fishing for Chickens: Short Stories about Rural Youth.
In addition, Victoria is a visual artist, creating pottery, watercolors, oil and acrylic paintings, and photographs. She holds a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of South Dakota.
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A professor at Black Hills State University is asking for $150,000 in state funding to create a Center for American Exceptionalism. -
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is suing the U.S. Department of Interior and its agencies for violating treaty obligations to fund law enforcement on the Pine Ridge Reservation. -
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 91 that expands the concept of lack of consent in third-degree rape. -
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Senate Bill 146, dubbed the “truth in sentencing” law. -
Senate Bill 4 as written, allowed state court judges to refer juveniles to the Department of Corrections after three strikes. Under the amendment, the juvenile has only one strike. -
A pair of South Dakota House bills designed to codify aspects of the federal Indian Child Welfare protections in state law failed to pass on Monday, Feb. 6. -
A bill that would codify provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act has been approved by the South Dakota House Judiciary Committee on a vote of 9 to 3 -
House Bill 1063 hit a snag in the full Senate on Thursday, Feb. 2. There, it received solid opposition and narrowly passed with an 18 to 17 vote. -
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 4 aimed at give judges in South Dakota greater discretion to send juvenile repeat offenders to DOC -
A pair of bills authorizing the Unified Judicial System to create study groups are on their way to becoming law.
