Category Archives: Local/State Headlines

Rapid City sales tax collections posted strong gains early in 2026, coming in well above budget projections for the first two months of the year. Finance Director Daniel Ainslie said February receipts...

Pennington County Sheriff Brian Mueller and Rapid City Police Chief Don Hedrick issued a joint statement expressing support for the Sioux Falls Police Department after an officer was seriously injured...

Prosecutors have filed charges following the April 27, 2026, shooting of a Sioux Falls police officer and related crimes, according to the Minnehaha County State's Attorney's Office. Darren Reuben Ric...

The murder trial of Luke Birch opened Tuesday with emotional testimony from the family of McGarland Walker VI, who was shot and killed March 8, 2024, inside a Rapid City apartment building. Birch, 23,...

A proposed constitutional amendment that would clarify that only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote has moved one step closer to the 2026 general election ballot. As required by state law, Attorney Ge...

South Dakota Secretary of State Monae L. Johnson announced Tuesday that Brian Bengs has officially qualified for the ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in the Nov. 3 general election. ...

A Mission man has been sentenced in federal court for assaulting a corrections officer at a tribal jail, U.S. Attorney Ron Parsons announced. Duane Rouillard III, 37, was sentenced April 21 by U.S. Di...

A Mission man has been sentenced in federal court for assault resulting in serious bodily injury. U.S. District Judge Eric C. Schulte sentenced Jacob Wright, 31, to three years and five months in pris...

The South Dakota Department of Social Services says roughly 1,213 people on expanded Medicaid - about 4% of enrollees - could lose coverage once new federal work requirements take effect in 2027. The ...

A Rapid City man was arrested this afternoon after police responded to a report of a man brandishing a handgun in a residential neighborhood, an incident that prompted precautionary security measures ...