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After Cpl. Jake Hill stepped on an improvised explosive device during a chaotic battle in Afghanistan's Helmand province, the young Marine radioed his squad leader.

Four presidential mascots and the state tourism staff will be taking a two week long bus trip across the Midwest to promote the state.

PIERRE, S.D. Major Randy Hartley is retiring after 25 years with the South Dakota Highway Patrol, Col.

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A cold and snowy April set back fish spawning in South Dakota and complicated the efforts of state wildlife officials to collect walleye eggs from Lake Oahe and eight eastern lakes.

Steve Baker, publisher of the Capital Journal in Pierre, was elected president of South Dakota Newspaper Association on April 26 during the annual newspaper convention in Rapid City.

"Listening to some of the stories the kids had told, so it was very emotional," said Jonni Hertle, a second-grade teacher at General Beadle Elementary.

The Rapid City Police Department says employees at a car dealership discovered the body of 65-year-old James Tracke late Monday afternoon.

"When the little guy who was very young at the time, I think he was 5 looked at me and said he wanted to do 100 miles it captured my heart" Said Teacher, Mattie Ingram.

It's a program aimed to combat drinking and driving in South Dakota. But is it working? The ignition interlock devices were added to the 24/7 Sobriety Program in October.

Legislation approved by The House Agriculture Committee would cut about 2.5 billion dollars a year, or a little more than 3 percent from the federal food stamp program, which is used by 1 in 7 Americans.

A new ordinance to try and help clean up some of Rapid City's most unsafe and unattractive homes has many landlords up in arms.

For some South Dakota athletes the wait is over and competition has begun, but in these competitions winning isn't everything.

For the next several days, Candidate Mark Kirkeby and Incumbent Sam Kooiker will continue to answer some of the big questions facing voters.

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Leaders from 11 Native American tribes stormed out of a meeting with US federal officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which they say will lead to 'environmental genocide.' Native Americans are opposed to the 1,179-mile Keystone XL project, a system to transport tar sands oil from Canada and the ... (more)

If sudden cardiac arrest would strike someone at Black Hawk Elementary, the chances for survival are increased greatly thanks to the hard work and fundraising of a group of students.

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Tribal representatives walked out of a meeting with U.S. State Department officials who came to Rapid City to discuss concerns about the Keystone XL pipeline project.

"Ever since I was a little kid, I always thought of being a firefighter," said Tongue River High School senior Jacob Dukeman.

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