SPEARFISH — Albert Einstein said, “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” Young scientists from Spearfish Middle School Thursday showed the results of their questions at the annual ...

SPEARFISH — The driver of a Dodge Caravan received serious but non-life-threatening injuries Thursday afternoon in a crash near Exit 10 in Spearfish stemming from a high-speed pursuit.

At approximately 2:40 p.m., a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper attempted to make a traffic stop on the ...

DEADWOOD — A Mountaintop Field master plan at the middle/high school campus and a flagpole plaza addition at the elementary school entryway characterize two project contracts the Lead-Deadwood school board approved Tuesday.

The contract with Tallgrass Landscape Architecture, LLC, is for ...

DEADWOOD — An integral spoke in the judicial system’s wheel, the Lawrence County Public Defender’s Office worked 540 cases in 2018, many of which were felonies. According to Public Defender Amber Richey, the trend continues.

“I wanted to give you an opportunity to hear about some changes ...

SPEARFISH — There’s a new place in Spearfish for people to experience wellness: The Black Hills Salt Cave and Spa, now open at 738 N. Fifth St.

“It’s been going really well. We’ve had a really good response from the community,” owner April Johnson said, describing that the contemporary ...

BELLE FOURCHE — The case against a Belle Fourche woman arrested in relation to vandalism that played out over the course of three days last August and culminated in her alleged arson of her home continues to be in limbo after her psychologist told the court Tuesday that she is still not mentally ...

STURGIS — The air temperature in Sturgis may have been in the upper teens, but a strong wind made it feel much colder.

That didn’t deter workers from continuing construction on the Hotel Sturgis Friday.

Outside the historic building, crews pulled away siding from near the front ...

STURGIS — Pending formal approval by the Meade School Board in March, students in the Meade School District could have new Mac computers in the coming year.

Meade School Board members gave a verbal OK at their meeting Monday to move ahead with a plan to spend about $2 million to replace ...

BELLE FOURCHE — The Associated School Boards of South Dakota honored the Belle Fourche School Board during its meeting Monday in recognition of its dedicated leadership and for improving achievement for its students.

Steve Willard, superintendent, expressed gratitude for all the board ...

DEADWOOD — The Whitewood Creek Trail will soon be lengthened, thanks to the approval Feb. 4 by the Deadwood City Commission of a $20,000 extension proposal that will be reimbursed by BID District #8, as approved by the BID 8 Board of Directors Dec. 8.

Tallgrass Landscape Architecture of ...

DEADWOOD — A North Dakota juvenile died Sunday at Lead-Deadwood Regional Hospital from injuries sustained from a snowmobile accident.

According to a prepared statement issued by the Lawrence County Coroner’s Office, the crash occurred around 9:45 p.m. Saturday on SD Snowmobile Trail 7 on ...

STURGIS — The town of Buffalo Chip will continue to operate as a municipality despite a ruling Tuesday that puts the town’s incorporation into question.

Fourth Circuit Judge Gordon Swanson, during a motions’ hearing in the State vs. Buffalo Chip case, ruled from the bench that the ...

DEADWOOD — Around 50 community members and others gathered Saturday at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center for the Lead-Deadwood High School Hall of Fame Luncheon and Induction Ceremony to honor the 2018 inductee, David Roesler, Deadwood High School Class of 1959.

Superintendent Dr. ...

STURGIS — Retro rally radio has gone worldwide: Pirate radio station KNKL, which broadcasts from a windowed cubical inside The Knuckle Saloon, is sharing its commercial-free sound on smart phones, tablets and computers from Vale to Venezuela and Fairburn to France 24 hours a day.

The ...

BELLE FOURCHE — Arctic weather has put progress on Belle Fourche’s Eighth Avenue sewer interceptor project at a standstill for the foreseeable future as financial penalties against the contractor continue to grow.

Bret Olson, with Heavy Constructors, the Rapid-City based construction firm ...

DEADWOOD — “Where the hills heal the heroes.” That’s the motto for and mission of Sacred Mountain Retreat Center, a non-profit set to open outside of Deadwood in short order, meeting a tall mission.

“The goal of Sacred Mountain Retreat Center is to bring our military, first responders, and ...

STURGIS — The Sturgis City Council wants a few more details ironed out before they agree to continue paying the Sturgis Volunteer Fire Department for a fire engine purchased in 2010.

According to City Manager Daniel Ainslie, there was a verbal understanding between the city of Sturgis and ...

DEADWOOD — For 25 years, Cpl. Rob Lester of the Deadwood Police Department has served the community in a law enforcement capacity, and, in more recent years, as a school resource officer, as well.

He recently announced his retirement, effective June 1 as a full-time police officer, and ...

SPEARFISH — The Spearfish Community Foundation awarded more than $52,000 to 24 nonprofit community service groups Thursday during its annual grant breakfast at the Spearfish Canyon Golf Club.

Organizations receiving grants in 2019 include: Action for the Betterment of our community, a ...

SPEARFISH — The north entrance to Spearfish Canyon may have a slightly different look in the next few years, as the newest multi-phase, mixed use development in Spearfish is proposed for the former Spearfish Canyon Golf Club driving range between East Colorado Boulevard and U.S. Highway ...

SPEARFISH — It’s cold out there.

The National Weather Service in Rapid City recorded Spearfish as having the coldest overnight temperature late Wednesday and into Thursday.

Shane Eagan, a meteorologist, said an observer recorded -24 in Spearfish.

Eagan said he thought that ...

SPEARFISH — There’s a new tool being piloted this year at Spearfish Middle School to help students manage their stress and wellness.

Thanks to a grant from the Spearfish Foundation for Public Education, the school received EmWave2 devices, which allow the trained school counselors to ...

SPEARFISH — Spearfish Middle School Principal Don Lyon received quite the surprise this morning. Instead of an early staff meeting, like he had been led to believe was happening, Lyon was surprised with the announcement from district staff that he was named Middle School Principal of the Year by ...

SPEARFISH — Every once in a blue moon an animal not normally encountered in the Black Hills is spotted. A bear here, a wolf there. This weekend it was a moose spotted in the Northern Hills.

Jake Kiley and his family and friends were snowmobiling down from the Cement Ridge Lookout area ...

PENNINGTON COUNTY — The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office has made the decision to transition the search for missing 9-year-old Serenity Dennard from a rescue to a recovery operation. If Dennard was outside, it’s unlikely she survived. Officials have not ruled out the possibility that she found ...

DEADWOOD — The Deadwood History and Information Center, located at 3 Siever St., is long overdue for an exhibit space revamp and Monday, the Deadwood City Commission moved to accept the sole bid received on the project in the amount of $180,000 to Split Rock Studios of Arden Hills, ...

BELLE FOURCHE — Community members poured into Graps Burgers and Brews in Belle Fourche Saturday to attend a Legislative cracker barrel and discuss a variety of topics with District 28 Sen. Ryan Maher, R-Isabel; District 28B Rep. Sam Marty, R-Prairie City; District 29 Reps. Thomas Brunner, ...

LEAD — A garage in Lead was destroyed in an over night fire.

At around 4 a.m. Lead Volunteer Fire Department responded to a call about the fire on Hearst Avenue.

Fire Chief Tim Eggers said the fire was confined to the detached structure with minor damage to the surrounding structures ...

SPEARFISH — Thursday’s 3 Cheers Celebration brought in more than $15,000 for the Spearfish Foundation for Public Education.

The annual event is the largest fundraiser for the Spearfish Foundation for Public Education and the final event of the fund drive.

This year’s fund drive ...

SPEARFISH — It started with his desire to have a place on the east side of Spearfish to get gas, and after 33 years after opening the Minitman Food and Fuel gas station at 820 E. Colorado Blvd., he handed over the keys to the new owner Thursday.

Hess, current Black Hills State University ...

LEAD — Yogis and yoginis will soon have a new place to call home in the Black Hills as Mystic Hills Yoga prepares to open its doors in the newly remodeled Gold Rush Plaza in Lead.

Stormy Walters recently moved to Lead with her boyfriend, a local, with big plans for her new life in the ...

LEAD — A gesture of generosity and kindness equally enormous and random as the swath of devastation and destruction handed down by Hurricane Maria in September 2017, Lead-Deadwood School District Superintendent Dr. Dan Leikvold, joined by 42 people from across North America, spent the last week ...

SPEARFISH — Glen Lester is celebrating 35 years of customer service with Great Western Tire, Inc., with no inclination towards re-TIRE-ment.

“I don’t know what I’d do if I did,” Lester said with a laugh. “I enjoy people, I enjoy the people I work with. … I would feel I deserted them if I ...

SPEARFISH — A bighorn sheep ram shot in Pennington County Oct. 30 crushed the previous record held for 20 years.

The Pope and Young Club convened a special panel of judges Thursday in Sioux Falls to certify the score.

Clayton Miller’s massive ram is now the largest hunter-killed ...

STURGIS — The Belle Fourche ShopKo pharmacy is now closed and the Sturgis ShopKo pharmacy will close Feb. 12

The closures are part of ShopKos Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.

“This decision is a difficult, but necessary one,” Chief Executive Officer Russ Steinhorst, said in a ...

SPEARFISH — Eighth-grade students at Spearfish Middle School have a fresh way to engage with news content.

Thanks to a grant from the Spearfish Foundation for Public Education, classrooms have access to a subscription to Newsela, an instructional content platform that provides news content ...

DEADWOOD — A spring/summer South Dakota Department of Transportation (DOT) project in partnership with the city that will stretch from Tin Lizzie to Deadwood Station on Lower Main Street in Deadwood will ramp up in the next month or so. On Jan. 22, the city commission awarded the low bid of ...

DEADWOOD — In order to drum up more business and alleviate abuse of a former fee, the Deadwood City Commission approved new rates for the Broadway Parking Ramp Tuesday. They added the items to other fee changes in the city’s rate schedule that went into effect Jan. 1.

“Parking and ...

SPEARFISH — BooBoo is one lucky pup: After being separated from his owner, Curtis Clark, of Lucerne Valley, Calif., after an incident with another dog in the Spearfish Walmart in July, he was running loose and fending for himself for six months until Jan. 25. On Monday, his family came to ...

DEADWOOD — Treasurer Deb Tridle presented the annual county wheel tax collections report to county commissioners Jan. 22, reporting that Lawrence County collected more than $330,000 in 2018.

“We collected $333,213.27 in 2018 for the wheel tax, which was up $8,822.13, compared to 2017,” ...

STURGIS — Meade County Sheriff Ron Merwin Jan. 22 updated the county commissioners on the jail trends and recapped in a report the services performed by the sheriff’s office in 2018.

The number of inmates booked into the jail was 3,061, which is up over 2017, at 2,718.

“This morning ...

DEADWOOD — The Lawrence County Veterans Service Office, located in the Sheriff’s Department at 80 Sherman St., is now open Monday-Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., following county commission approval of allowing Veterans Service Officer Jesse Ketzer to add an additional day of service, Mondays, ...

SPEARFISH — Visit Spearfish, Inc., the private, nonprofit destination marketing organization located on Spearfish Main Street, is sporting a brand-new director of special events position and office and visitor center manager position, with two new faces joining the team since ...

FORT MEADE — Veterans, it is as easy as clicking on a link in an email, and you could have access to your doctor, nurse, specialist, or a provider at the Black Hills Health Care System (BHHCS) at Fort Meade. Telehealth refers to the use of technology, such as a computer or cell phone, to provide ...

STURGIS — Dr. George Jenter is seeing some of his final patients in the next week, as he has plans to retire on Feb. 1.

“I think age 72 is a good age to retire,” said Jenter. “I have noticed that over the past 30 to 40 years, that if the person is healthy, it is a good time to retire from ...

SPEARFISH — It will be the 20th time Spearfish High School will represent South Dakota at the national “We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution” competition this spring.

The team won the state competition Thursday at Black Hills State University.

“It’s commendable that you ...

SPEARFISH — It’s back to the drawing board for a proposed ordinance amendment aimed at providing flexibility for property owners in Spearfish to park RVs and trailers in their driveways for longer than 48 hours, the current limit.

The Spearfish City Council Tuesday voted unanimously to ...

STURGIS — The Meade County Commissioners discussed a newly proposed snow removal policy Tuesday. The purpose as stated in the new policy is to formalize and establish Meade County’s level of service with respect to the removal of snow or ice, as well as the placement of sand, salt, or other ...

DEADWOOD — The Lawrence County Commission voted Tuesday to support the use of the county right-of-way as shown in revised exhibits regarding the proposed Exit 8 shared use rec path project, subject to the typical permitting process that will occur once the design and build phases ensue. The ...

BELLE FOURCHE — A Belle Fourche man was sentenced Jan. 11 to serve 30 days in jail with 13 suspended, and credit for 17 already served in a possession of marijuana and simple assault against a law enforcement officer case.

According to court documents, Belle Fourche Police Officers Tony ...