Yankton & Yankton County, South Dakota

A meat processing facility in Yankton is closing, resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs.

She won three straight state basketball titles with Yankton, went on to become a dominant player in college and then played professionally in Europe. Lisa Van Goor joins Craig Mattick on this edition of In Play.

In this episode from the archives, Ben Jones speaks with University of South Dakota Law Professor Tom Simmons to see what happened when angry investor Peter Wintermute and Acting Territorial Governor Edwin McCook have a shootout and brawl in the midst of a Yankton public meeting.

The Yankton High School board is looking at its protocol and safety plans in the aftermath of a shooting at a school parking lot.

Gary Becker grew up next to the Meridian Bridge in Yankton. He shared some of his favorite memories.

The Mead Museum in Yankton is opening its “Hall of Trees” event the day after Thanksgiving until the end of December.

By the early 1990's officials in both Nebraska and South Dakota determined that an upgrade was needed at the Missouri River crossing at Yankton. The question became, what to do with the Meridian Bridge?

Once the Meridian Bridge was built, then came the work of maintenance. Don List details what type of work it took to keep the bridge functional.

Yankton's Meridian Bridge is quite a spectacle. It took 11,000 barrels of concrete & 3,500 tons of steel to build a modern marvels that cost 1.3 million dollars.

In this Dakota Life story from 1999, SDPB chronicles the history of Yankton's Meridian Bridge.