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The small town of Sturgis can’t house the hundreds of thousands of bikers who attend its motorcycle rally. 

Governor Kristi Noem arrived in Deadwood by horse, where she attended an auction that raised $149,000 for charity. Noem then swapped her horse for a motorcycle and took off to the Buffalo Chip campground near Sturgis.

The Budweiser Clydesdale, a man dressed as Captain America, women wearing nothing but body paint, and a motorcycle covered in antlers and taxidermy are just some of the sites to see at the 81st annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.  

The South Dakota National Guard is deploying to Guantanamo Bay for the first time since the detention camp opened in 2002.

About half of South Dakota counties are protected by the new federal eviction ban as 96% of federal housing aid to the state remains unspent.  

Construction workers installed windowpanes and rode cranes to reach the top layers of the new Summit Arena in Rapid City on Monday morning.  

The South Dakota Department of Health stopped providing daily COVID-19 updates earlier this month. It now updates the data every Wednesday.  

South Dakota prison employees will receive temporary bonuses and raises for certain kinds of work, according to an email obtained by SDPB.  

Workers are in high demand across the country. That includes the Black Hills where businesses need to hire extra staff during the tourism season.  

The South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation reports a big gap between the number of job openings and available workers.