The vibrant downtown area features classic brick buildings housing local shops and restaurants that won’t drain your fixed income. Home to the University of South Dakota, this town offers cultural ...

Tucked away in the southeastern corner of South Dakota lies a forested paradise that defies everything you thought you knew about the Mount Rushmore State. Newton Hills State Park offers a woodland ...

Zebra mussels continued to show up in more South Dakota waters this year, despite efforts to control the aquatic invasive ...

Federal approval of South Dakota’s disaster relief plan has cleared the way for more than $15 mil‑lion in recovery aid to reach North Sioux City, nearly 18 months after floodwaters swept through the ...

The corps will monitor ice formation for potential ice jams that could impact Missouri River stages and water intakes.

Every dollar of the stamp is required by law to go toward wildlife habitat and public access projects. The stamp has raised ...

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight The first fish that Republican former state Sen. V.J. Smith ever caught was from a ...

According to the report, 67 projects created 83 linear miles of buffers, protecting 1,219 acres. The project contracts last for 10 years. They prevent an estimated 1,484 pounds of phosphorus, 6,415 ...

I think it takes more than the carrot to address this,” said state Senate President Pro Tempore Chris Karr, R-Sioux Falls.

Parts of the Plains, Midwest and Appalachians saw their first snow of the season. That included some heavy lake-effect snowbands, accompanied by thunder and lightning, in Chicago and elsewhere in the ...

Chicago — Large swaths of the U.S. prepared for one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather Sunday as temperatures dipped and snow fell in the Northern Plains, snowstorms developed eastward ...