Watertown & Codington County, South Dakota

The Watertown Arrows are back at the state girls basketball tournament this week for the first time since 2009. On top of that, they’re coached by Chad Rohde, who is in his first year at the helm, and he's getting the opportunity to coach his daughter.

The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the rape conviction of a Watertown man who tried to use the defense of advance consent.

Craig Mattick talks with Marv Sherrill who won eight state titles and was runner-up nine times during his 35-year career of coaching on the mat.

Step into the studio of Chester "The Bear Man" Yackley of Watertown and watch him carve his latest creation with a chainsaw.

We're celebrating 25 years of Dakota Life by revisiting conversations with people we've met on the show. This month it's Joshua Spies.

Step inside Watertown's Mellette House, the home of South Dakota's first governor Arthur C. Mellette.

Most of us take vacation to get a break from work. But a South Dakotan passionate about food safety, recently used up her two weeks’ vacation and volunteered to work to improve food safety in Egypt. SDPB’s Lura Roti has this story.

Watertown high school is hosting the 2022 South Dakota High School Activities Association state cheer and dance competition on October 21-22.

An upcoming performance at the Redlin Art Center will feature the work of Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge. Hauge is one of Norway's most influential poets. He was also a horticulturist, working as a gardener in his own apple orchard. His connection to the natural world inspired his writing about the fauna and the changing of the seasons.

Before World War II, facing persecution in Europe, Jews look to America for safety. The question is, what will America do? A traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explores what Americans knew and when they knew it.