The Middle of Everywhere - Connecting Rural South Dakota

SDPB’s new documentary traces the tremendous efforts that brought services and amenities, like electricity, newspapers, radio and telephones, to our very rural region.

Leo P. Flynn was a Milbank attorney who played a prominent role in rural electrification efforts and regulation from the 1930s through the mid-1970s

South Dakota's radio pioneers realized that radio could provide valuable services, especially to rural listeners.

How technology has shortened police and fire response times.

A partial timeline of advancements in communication technologies in South Dakota, from 1832 to the present day.

Rural electrification was a huge step forward for agriculture in South Dakota and around the nation.Rural electrification was a huge step forward for agriculture in South Dakota an