• DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) -- Dakotas-based Sanford Health has moved up the opening date for its new clinic in Dickinson by several months.
• Ground was broken for the 85,000-square-foot facility last December. Officials say construction is going so well that it should be complete by January and ready for opening in February rather than next July.
• The clinic is more than three times the size of the existing clinic in Dickinson, one the main cities in the booming western North Dakota oil patch. Clinic Administrator Amy Kreidt says it will have more staff and more features, including a surgery center, a walk-in clinic with expanded hours and a chemotherapy center.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Drivers in Sioux Falls have a new way to find out about parking restrictions when the snow piles up this winter.
• The city will send out cellphone text messages when snow alerts are issued.
• To subscribe, send a text with the word SNOW to 605-413-1990 or go to siouxfalls.org/snow to subscribe to text, email or social media notifications.
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• Guard members team with Scotland counterparts
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A group of South Dakota National Guard soldiers have been working with some counterparts in Scotland on their vertical engineering skills
• The 40 guard members from South Dakota worked with soldiers from the Territorial Army, Britain's equivalent of a National Guard force, last month in northern Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park during construction of a viewing walkway.
• The visit was part of the Army National Guard's Reciprocal Unit Exchange Program.
• Col. Tim Moran says it's a cultural and doctrinal program that gives U.S. soldiers an opportunity to learn from NATO partners.
• Soldiers from the 153rd Engineer Battalion spent their two-week annual training working with British engineers from the 71 Engineer Regiment.
• They built a 150 meter-long, two meter-wide viewing walkway for the park.

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