Lead, South Dakota

Chosen from among 78 artists, Chris Combs serves as this year’s Artist-in-Residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Based out of Washington D.C., Combs says his artwork both embraces and questions technology.

Over the weekend, Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. led an engagement to cleanse the Sanford Underground Research Facility. The sprawling underground laboratory was once home to the Homestake Mine in the northern Black Hills, which produced over 40 million ounces of gold.

The rise of railroad transportation in the Black Hills began in the 1880s. This video from the SDPB archives gives the early history of the railroads.

SURF and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have completed the first test lift and lowering of a six-ton L-shaped steel beam.

Sanford Underground Research Facility celebrates 15 years of healthy fish and clean water downstream from their treatment facilities. What goes into cleaning the water?

During a recent talk at the ethnobotanical garden near the old Homestake Mine, Marty Two Bulls Jr. described his visual art approach at a lab dedicated to studying the invisible.

There are fewer places for dark matter particles to hide thanks to a detector located a mile underground in the northern Black Hills. The Lux-Zeplin detector has narrowed down possibilities where these particles exist.

Cavern excavation for the long-baseline neutrino facility, or LBNF is officially complete, and the project is shifting into the next phase.

The Sanford Underground Research Facility hosts Neutrino Day in Lead July 13.

The EPA provides $3 million for cleanup and redevelopment projects across South Dakota.