Category Archives: Local/State Headlines

Officials announced the Murphy Fire that has been burning Northwest of Hermosa is 90% contained as of Sunday evening. The fire, which was reported last Thursday morning has burned 423 acres. Crews pla...

A Rapid City man pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter Friday in connection with a fatal stabbing that occurred downtown more than a year ago. Diontae Eagleman, 23, entered the plea during a hea...

Rapid City Area Schools has been awarded a $223,830 Workforce Education Grant to enhance the Culinary Arts program at Stevens High School. The grant, provided by the South Dakota Department of Educati...

A Rapid City educator has been named one of five finalists for South Dakota's 2027 Teacher of the Year. Kathryn Swank, a fifth-grade teacher in the Rapid City Area School District, was selected as the...

Governor Larry Rhoden has appointed Judge Chad Callahan as a circuit judge in South Dakota's Fourth Judicial Circuit, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Mike Day. Callahan currently s...

Governor Larry Rhoden and Attorney General Marty Jackley are moving forward with implementation of new legislation aimed at protecting law enforcement officers from doxxing, the online release of pers...

A St. Francis, South Dakota, man was sentenced after being convicted of distributing a controlled substance. U.S. District Judge Eric C. Schulte sentenced Julian Arcoren, 37, to time served through Ap...

A man from Eagle Butte was sentenced in federal court after being convicted of threatening a federal official. Joseph Lafferty, 68, was sentenced to four years of probation and ordered to pay a $100 s...

A Rosebud man was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to two counts of domestic assault as a habitual offender. Marlon Oliver Jr., 41, received a total sentence of two years and 10 months...

South Dakota's Bureau of Information & Technology (BIT) plans to seek support from the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) Program to help strengthen the state's cyber...