A new statewide poll of South Dakota Republican voters shows U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson and Gov. Larry Rhoden in a statistical tie for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, with 28% backing Johnson and 27% supporting Rhoden. The poll, conducted Oct. 16-20 by Mason-Dixon Polling and co-sponsored by South Dakota News Watch and ...

An upgrade to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint is underway. Funded through both local and federal sources, the expansion is designed to improve efficiency and accommodate the increasing number of visitors to Rapid City and the surrounding Black Hills region. As part of the project, the airpor...

The identities of Two people who died in a two-vehicle crash early Friday morning, seven miles north of Mission, have been released. Preliminary crash information indicates 73-year-old Priscilla M. Wagner, the driver of a 2023 Kenworth T680, was traveling northbound on US Highway 83 near mile marker 29. At the same tim...

A 55-year-old man from Newcastle, Wyoming, died Thursday afternoon in a motorcycle crash on U.S. Highway 85, approximately 22 miles north of Newcastle. According to the Wyoming Highway Patrol, John Fowler was riding a 2016 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy when he failed to navigate a curve, struck a driveway at high speed, and ...

Matthew Hade, 30, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in the South Dakota State Penitentiary for aggravated assault in a domestic violence case. The sentence will run consecutively to a 27-year term he previously received in Meade County for violating probation tied to a rape conviction. The October 2024 assault occurred ...