Black Hills News

The United Way of the Black Hills has only a week to meet its fundraising goals.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 18, 2010 CONTACT: Jeff Mammenga, Media Coordinator, 773-6000, Jeff.Mammenga@state.sd.us hosting regional history conference PIERRE - The Mountain-Plains Museum Association will hold its 2010 annual conference Sept.

Areas of light snow continue to move across KELOLAND this morning. We've had about 4" in the Pierre area with around 2-4" in the Black Hills region.

The Black Hills National Forest 2010 Recreation season pass will be available for 50 percent off today.

Black Hills Energy wants to raise natural gas rates for its 197,000 customers in Nebraska.

It's one of the best places to catch up on the latest gossip, and today the topic is the possible electricity rate hike.

Black Hills Power wants to raise its rates by 26.6 percent. One local school says the hike would add tens of thousands of dollars to its yearly costs, forcing them to cut programs for students.

With the possibility of swine flu infecting as many as 40 percent of the country's population this fall and winter, the Black Hills Area Chapter of the American Red Cross in Rapid City, South Dakota, has jumped into action.

The annual bagel drive-thru launches the KOTA Territory Care and Share Food Drive.

Rapid City leaders are seeking to save families and businesses money by fighting a proposed power rate increase.

While industries across the nation falter it doesn't stifle one group's desire to make the Black Hills the "Silicon Valley" of South Dakota.

It's been said that a consultant is someone that you pay to use your wristwatch to tell you what time it is.

John Thune says Western Biomass Energy, which converts wood chips from the Black Hills into renewable fuel _a>s, has been selected to take par4 in the Biomass Crop Assistance Program.

SDBHP Rate Increase,0130 Cities would feel budget crunch with BHP increase SPEARFISH, S.D. City officials in the Northern Black Hills say they will feel the crunch if the Public Utilities Commission approves a 26.6 percent electricity rate increase requested by Black Hills Power.

The state capitol Christmas tree has started its trip from Rapid City to Pierre.

Managers at the Black Hill Institute in Hill City, The Winery in Hill City, and Reptile Gardens in Rapid City said there's no trick to good customer service.

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission will hold a public input meeting on Tuesday, Nov.

Investors jumped back into short bets on some of the already most shorted stocks in the SNL Energy coverage universe in the first half of October.

Black Hills Corp . unit Black Hills Power has issued $180 million in 6.125%, 30-year notes to fund its greenfield development of the 110 MW coal-fired Wygen III plant near Gillette, Wyo.

Sioux Valley Energy, based in Colman, will receive more than $4 million in federal stimulus money to install a smart-grid network across its customer base.