Category Archives: Local/State Headlines

Home prices across Rapid City and the Black Hills continued to rise in the third quarter of 2025, but growing inventory and longer sale times suggest a cooling market. The median sale price in Rapid C...

South Dakota's cybersecurity and artificial intelligence industry has expanded by 350% over the past decade-ranking second in national growth. This boom is driving thousands of high-paying jobs, new r...

South Dakota State University's two leading support organizations-the SDSU Alumni Association and the SDSU Foundation-will officially consolidate on January 1, 2026. The decision was unanimously appro...

South Dakota First Lady Sandy Rhoden is calling on residents to nominate individuals who make a meaningful impact in their communities for the inaugural South Dakota Rising Award. The award aims to sp...

Two Rapid City residents were arrested early Friday morning in connection with an assault that left a woman hospitalized with serious injuries. The incident occurred around 2:05 a.m. on October 10, wh...

Rapid City police arrested 18-year-old Trevor Firstintrouble on October 9 following a late-night patrol in the 300 block of E. Adams Street. Just before 11 p.m., officers encountered Firstintrouble du...

The owner of a horse found dead near Pactola Reservoir is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the person or persons responsible. According to the Pennington Coun...

The Rapid City Transit System recorded more than 25,000 passenger trips in September, marking the second-highest September ridership total in the past six years. A key contributor to the increase was ...

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety has identified the driver killed in a single-vehicle crash earlier this month as 70-year-old Anthony Arthur Grenstiner of Sturgis. Grenstiner died on Octob...

A Pennington County jury has found 24-year-old Ezekiel Mayweather guilty of aiding and abetting first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of Esther Wolfe. Wolfe was...