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 Deadwood property owner has appealed to the South Dakota Supreme Court to overturn the city’s denial of his planned renovation. -
According to the Secretary of Corrections, the solution for overcrowded prisons lies in more and better prisons, and solutions need a lot of money. -
The Legislative Task Force on the Incarceration Construction Fund determines whether the legislature can take action to implement solutions. -
The South Dakota Legislature is conducting a summer study on the need for regional jails. Committee members are hearing that small town jails are often old, not meeting legal requirements anymore -
Lyman County filed notice of its intent to appeal a judge’s order to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and asked the federal judge for an emergency stay of an Aug. 11 order pending appeal. -
A legislative interim committee is meeting this summer to study juvenile justice, and committee members have heard much about truancy as a doorway to criminal behavior. -
A lawsuit initiated by the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe against Lyman County could be complicated by a recent case on the U.S. Supreme Court’s emergency docket. Also referred to as the “shadow docket,” it allows justices to resolve an issue temporarily until a case can have a full hearing. -
A federal judge has ordered Lyman County to come up with a plan for the November elections that gives the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe a chance to elect its preferred county commissioner candidates. -
A lawsuit against a former special education teacher in Aberdeen can go forward, according to an opinion by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. -
