Pennington County News

Pennington County Sheriff's office is looking for information about a spree of vandalism and burglaries in Rapid Valley.

Glitches in a new statewide computer system have left residents in South Dakota 's two largest counties waiting for hours to renew their license plates.

Rapid City Police say the victim in Saturday nights shooting is 44-year-old Paul Ortiz.

Bond remains at a half million dollars for a Rapid City man caught with pornographic pictures of children on his computer.

Commissioners will loan the dispatch center 30,000 interest free to pay their employees.

Major crimes in Pennington County increased nearly 7 percent last year. Statistics from the attorney general's office showed that an increase in violent crimes, such as rape, aggravated assault, murder and ...

Gang members in South Dakota are using social networking Web sites to recruit members and expand their drug trafficking here, according to a recent report by the U.S. Justice Department.

Despite a National Weather Service statement in Sioux Falls that the long drought is pretty much over in western South Dakota, an Extension Service official in Pennington County is not convinced.

State and federal funding to the Pennington County Highway department have been cut by nearly $1.5 million this year.

The Pennington County Commission has put the brakes on the idea of a wheel tax. Although state and federal funding of the Pennington County Highway Department have been cut by nearly $1.5 million this year, ...

Despite a National Weather Service statement in Sioux Falls that the long drought is pretty much over in western South Dakota, an Extension Service official in Pennington County is not convinced.

FEMA officials will be in Meade and Pennington counties for most of the week, surveying damage to homes as well as public infrastructure like roads and bridges.

Hundreds of KELOLAND communities have damage caused by recent storms. Emergency managers in the western half of the state met yesterday and declared the region a disaster area.

Pennington County Search and Rescue and the Box Elder Fire Department have retrieved a man from a manhole after he fell into it while working at a truck stop on the east edge of Rapid City.

Jurors at the trial of two Hells Angels bikers charged with starting a 2006 gunfight will not hear testimony about an earlier altercation involving one of the men and a gun, a judge ruled Tuesday.

More counties expected to follow suit as waters recede By Andrea J. Cook, Journal staff Wednesday, June 11, 2008 County commissioners in several West River counties have issued disaster declarations, and more ...

Election Day is here and bright, warm weather is greeting thousands of Rapid City voters.

The trial date for a Rapid City man accused of murder has been pushed back again.

Four people were rescued from their homes Wednesday night near Box Elder because of flooding.

South Dakotans love basketball and so does Sen. Barack Obama, the apparent Democratic Party presidential nominee.