A 47-year-old Rapid City man was arrested Wednesday morning and booked into the Pennington County Jail in connection with the death of his father, 66-year-old Timothy Branch. The incident began in the early hours of October 8, when police and emergency responders were called to a residence at 610 E. North Street for a ...

South Dakota's graduating class of 2025 continues to outperform the national average on the ACT, with an average score of 21.0 compared to the U.S. average of 19.4. This marks the fifth consecutive year that South Dakota students have scored higher than their peers nationwide. A total of 6,157 students took the ACT, wi...

Despite the ongoing government shutdown, the U.S. Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last week, allocating $378 million for projects at Ellsworth Air Force Base to support the B-21 bomber program. The House approved its version of the NDAA earlier, and both chambers are now worki...

Pennington County Auditor Cindy Mohler has announced her retirement, effective November 7, 2025, concluding more than 25 years of service to Pennington County. Her departure will leave a vacancy in the Auditor's office, which the Board of Commissioners is tasked with filling under South Dakota Codified Law §3-4-3(...

Airports across several states, including South Dakota, are not airing a video featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that blames Democrats for the ongoing federal government shutdown. Although the White House promoted the video as being shown at "every public airport in America," many airports hav...

Congressional Democrats held a second day of protests demanding that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., swear in Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva. The seat was left vacant after the death of her father, Rep. Raul Grijalva. Chair Rep. Teresa Leger Fern...

The Department of Homeland Security says Mexican drug cartels have created a "tiered" bounty system targeting ICE agents. The program allegedly offers $2,000 for intelligence gathering, $5,000 to $10,000 for kidnappings or assaults, and up to $50,000 f...

All 20 remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas returned home Monday before President Trump and global leaders signed a Gaza cease-fire in Egypt. The hostages had been in captivity for 738 days since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack that killed 1,200 peop...

Former President Joe Biden has begun radiation therapy, along with hormone treatment, to fight aggressive prostate cancer, a spokesperson confirmed Friday. The 82-year-old's radiation treatments are scheduled to continue for five weeks. Biden first rev...

A grand jury in Virginia has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James. The case follows the recent indictment of another Trump foe, former FBI Director James Comey, in the same courthouse. The charges against James remain unclear, though an inv...