UPDATE: Judicial Emergency Declared in State Computer Outage

UPDATE: Judicial emergency declared in state computer outage

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- The State of South Dakota is still facing computer issues. The Lincoln County Sheriff's office stated in a Facebook post that they are unable to work on their computers. They also said their phone lines are down. Crash near Harrisburg High School Just before 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, the South Dakota Supreme Court issued a judicial emergency. "All deadlines, time schedules, due dates and filing requirements impos…

Power outages across South Dakota government stymie services statewide

The waiting room at the driver licensing is empty on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. Exams were closed due to a state-wide power outage for government systems. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)South Dakota state government telephone systems and websites went down across several departments Tuesday, limiting systems and services. One woman filling out driver’s licensing paperwork at the Sioux Falls One Stop Tuesday afternoon yelled in exasperatio…

South Dakota government experiencing statewide network outage that is limiting services

UPDATE 2:45 p.m. — According to Lisa Rahja, Executive Communications Manager for the State of South Dakota, a power outage is the cause of the network issue. "This morning, electrical power to the State Data Center was impacted. The event affected all state hosted services and some network communications. The State Engineer and [Bureau of Information and Technology] BIT technical staff have investigated the root cause and are taking measures to …

Power outages across SD government stymie services statewide

PIERRE — South Dakota state government telephone systems and websites went down across several departments Tuesday, limiting systems and services. Those services remained disrupted Wednesday.

Power Outages Across SD Government Stymie Services

South Dakota state government telephone systems and websites went down across several departments Tuesday, limiting systems and services.