Whitewood News

A crumbling piece of history in one KOTA Territory town draws police barricades and questions about whether to tear it down.

The Armour Elementary gym was abuzz as children filed in Tuesday morning. Most weren't quite sure what the commotion was about, but each child proudly displayed a blue ribbon and presidential seal in anticipation of the morning's school-wide ceremony.

Wind -- one gust of 90 miles an hour was reported in Perkins County -- whipped the snow so hard that visibility was reduced to zero at many locations.

Other snow totals include 25 inches west of Spearfish, 18 inches near Whitewood, 13.5 inches at Lead, 12 inches in Rapid City, and 10 inches at Camp Crook and north of Box Elder.

I was 29 years old and wanted to build a hot rod from the ground up. I had some experience in restoring cars but had never started from the ground up! I knew eventually in my life I would start a family so a ...

Small towns in South Dakota rely on volunteer ambulance and fire departments during emergencies, but the volunteers who keep those communities safe are becoming more scarce.

A South Dakota Arts Council grant enabled the Whitewood Public Library to participate in the Hands-on Partnership for Science, Literature and Art.

The Whitewood city ambulance crew is desperately in need of more emergency medical technicians, Police Chief Jerry Davidson told the Whitewood City Council on Monday.

Among the issues discussed was the loss of power and similar emergencies. Whitewood Police Chief Jerry Davidson, who was at the meeting, says the goal is to improve the response to emergencies and to be ...

In light of problems stemming from the November blizzard that paralyzed western South Dakota, some Northern Black Hills emergency personnel have met to lay plans for the next big blizzard, storm or disaster.

With the economy on a downward spiral, many people are finding it hard to provide a good holiday season for the kids.

The odds for a long-awaited passenger train from Rapid City to Deadwood get longer every year, but the Northern Hills Regional Railroad Authority continues to pursue the land needed to lay track from Whitewood ...

Talk continues about the Highway 85 corridor study and Lawrence County Planning and Zoning Director Amber Vogt, Lawrence County Attorney Bruce Outka and Spearfish Planner Jayna Watson all met with the Lawrence ...