Rapid City News

While the unemployment rate for Americans with disabilities dropped last month, U.S. Department of Labor statistics show that number is still significantly higher than the unemployment rate for the general population.

South Dakota's oldest pair of twins still ask for a daily drink of vinegar water, and bacon or sausage for breakfast.

Already, South Dakota has had four fatal motorcycle crashes this year. State leaders have declared May as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.

"Today we have every available trooper working," said Captain Kevin Karley, District Three Commander for the South Dakota Highway Patrol.

A new winery opens its doors in Hill city, further enhancing the areas reputation as a wine lovers paradise.

According to a news release from Regional Health, the parent company, the clinic has been operating in the community for more than 20 years.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard says seven South Dakota students have been chosen to receive scholarships aimed at helping Native Americans pursue degrees at schools in the state.

Crazy Horse Memorial is offering free admission and a dynamite blast on the mountain during the Memorial Day weekend to kick off its summer visitor season.

"We had some very large contracts come our way from oil companies who needed many houses out there," Kevin Foss said.

In 1952, Vern Kraemer designed and assembled the first home-built aircraft in South Dakota.

Special response members aren't just playing in the dirt at Robbinsdale Park, they are learning the art of tactical tracking.

A search warrant was executed at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon on Smoke It Up, a smoke shop on Omaha Street.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe wants the federal government to reopen nearly 40 death cases and it's presenting that list to U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson on Thursday.

The Rapid City Police Department and the Pennington County Sheriff's Office will conduct special training today.

A Rapid City police officer stops a woman from crossing onto property belonging to Rapid City Regional Hospital Monday, May 21, 2012, in Rapid City, S.D. Hundreds of people have marched more than two miles from Memorial Plaza in Rapid City to a local hospital where a man says the letters KKK were carved into his stomach while undergoing surgery.

May 23rd thru 25th is the annual Fill the boot campaign for Muscular Dystrophy put on by the Rapid City Fire Department.

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A recently released sex offender whom police say registered with a false address is now in custody.

That's the question leaders of eight Missouri River states are still trying to answer after last year's historic flooding.

Pennington County Chief Deputy Willie Whelchel said, "The primary reason why the Sheriff's Office selected Lattice as the County's inmate phone service provider was the increased investigative possibilities utilizing cutting edge technology.