Author Archives: Jim Kallas

City and county officials gathered at The Monument Thursday for a ceremonial ribbon cutting to launch the 2026 Black Hills Stock Show and Rodeo. Proclamations were issued to mark the start of the even...

Multiple agencies responded yesterday morning to a multivehicle crash on Highway 85 that involved two passenger vehicles and a road grader. The call came in at 11:57 a.m. Truck 4 was already in the ar...

Fire crews responded around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning to a garage fire in the 200 block of Viking Drive after homeowners awoke to the smell of smoke and unusual noises. According to officials, the re...

Rapid City police have reclassified the death of a man found last week as a homicide following autopsy results released Wednesday. The victim has been identified as 43yearold Randall Lonehill of Rapid...

A mistrial has been declared in the assault case involving NDN Collective Founder and CEO Nick Tilsen. Closing arguments concluded Wednesday afternoon at the Pennington County Courthouse. Tilsen faced...

Attorney General Marty Jackley is traveling to New York for a hearing related to a legal dispute over abortion-related advertising. Jackley will argue that a countersuit filed by New York-based Mayday...

The Oglala Sioux Tribe has formally barred U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol agents from entering the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Tribal President Frank Star Com...

A bill moving through the South Dakota Senate would allow voters to challenge another person's citizenship at the polls. Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Deadrick says the measure is intended to prote...

A former Deadwood city commissioner is again facing legal trouble after being charged with first-degree burglary and multiple new counts of violating a no-contact order. Blake Joseph was charged with ...

Rapid City collected more than $81.6 million in sales tax revenue through November 2025, a 3.23% increase over the same period in 2024, according to a new city report. The latest figures were presente...