Sioux Falls & Minnehaha County, South Dakota

Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation celebrates Earth Month in April with two family-friendly festivals.

Local school districts are beginning to set their budgets for the coming academic year. However, there are new challenges as COVID-era funding moves further into the past and a new crop of legislators leave their fingerprints on law.

Sioux Falls Christian gets their revenge against Hamlin in a rematch of the 2024 Class A Boys Basketball State Championships. The Chargers came out on top this time around, 61-51.

Sioux Falls Christian are wearing special T-shirts this weekend at the state tournament to support 2nd grader Forrest Murphy. Forrest is battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer, Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma.

The festival will be held at Nelson Park in downtown Sioux Falls.

LifeScape, the Sioux Falls-based nonprofit helping disabled individuals, opens a new residential home in the community.

Disappointment in 2024 led to a more determined Sioux Falls Washington team this season. That drive led them back to the Class AA Tournament in 2025. Warriors Coach Jamie Parish also crossed a career milestone of 300 wins this season.

The Department of Government Efficiency suspended a Sioux Falls Church on the Street grant and then restored it. The grant provides fresh produce and healthy foods to 1,400 people a month dealing with poverty and homelessness.

Augustana University played in its first conference tournament for Division I hockey this weekend.

Dakota Wesleyan University is launching a new nursing program in Sioux Falls.