Rapid City & Pennington County, South Dakota

South Dakota Mines hasn’t hosted a speech team in a half-century, but its legacy is living on through a new tournament.

While the short-term rental industry represents a business opportunity for local property owners, others worry vacation rentals contribute to the region’s housing shortage.

The Rapid City Area Schools board is hiring the district’s next superintendent.

Monument Health received a major donation to buy new NICU equipment.

The Rushmore Rotary pledges $500,000 to the new Children’s Home Society Campus in Rapid City.

Authorities are investigating after two people were found dead in a camper in Rapid City.

Rapid City police say they’ve made an arrest in connection to a murder investigation.

West River adaptive climber Paul Martin is competing in the 2025 Paraclimbing National Championships in Oakland, California on March 1.

A bill aiming to legislate which bathrooms the public can use spurs a protest in downtown Rapid City.

In the heart of downtown Rapid stands another city, the City of Presidents. Find out the story of the presidential statues in downtown Rapid City in this 2014 Dakota Life story.