Ellsworth Air Force Base

Rapid City and Ellsworth Air Force Base are working closely together to provide clean water to residents inside and outside Rapid City’s borders.

The new fleet of B-21 bombers will bring in thousands of additional service members and their families to Box Elder. That has local leaders talking about how to meet their needs.

Military officials said several crew members received non-life-threatening injuries when a B-1 Lancer bomber crashed at Ellsworth Air Force Base.

South Dakota’s congressional delegation is celebrating several provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act. The package includes more than $2.5 billion for the B-21 bomber, which will get housed at Ellsworth Airforce Base in western South Dakota.

The head of Ellsworth Airforce Base is reacting to the first test flight of a nuclear capable stealth bomber earlier this month. Ellsworth is the future home of the B-21 Raider, which is expected to arrive in the mid-2020’s.

Ellsworth Airforce Base in Box Elder is the home of the B-21 which took its first flight November 10th.

In this Dakota Life story from 2003, take a walk around the South Dakota Air and Space Museum in Box Elder.

The Black Hills National Forest is teaming up with Ellsworth Airforce Base in a stewardship agreement to maintain an accessible trail and picnic site at Pactola Reservoir.

Ellsworth Airforce Base’s mission is unchanged, despite conflict in the Gaza strip between Israel and Hamas.

A U.S. government construction and engineering firm has been awarded over $43 million to construct a B-21 weapons training facility in South Dakota.