South Dakota VFW Baseball adds state tournaments to give more youth teams a chance to play

MITCHELL — After 60-plus years of organizing state youth baseball tournaments in South Dakota, the Veterans of Foreign Wars baseball postseason is going to look much different in 2025. Gone are the past Class A and Class B region tournaments and...

SDHSCA Announces Spring Coach(es) Of The Year

Sioux Falls, SD (Press Release) – The South Dakota High School Coaches Association announces the Coach of the Year Awards for the Spring of 2025 (Other nominees listed below each winner): Tennis – Kari Jensen, Vermillion Tim Hedblom, Huron; Rachel...

The 9 best books of the year so far

A truism about stories (courtesy, more or less, of the novelist John Gardner) is that there are only two plots: a person goes on a journey, and a stranger comes to town. The joke is that they’re the same story, from two different perspectives. In...

Travelers can now see new Indigenous art at Rapid City Regional Airport

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Visitors coming in and out of Rapid City Regional Airport will now be able to indulge in 15 new Indigenous art pieces. As part of the airport’s partnerships with Crazy Horse Memorial, the Journey Museum, and the Sioux...

Sioux Falls woman hiking to Omaha to raise awareness about threats to giraffes

Michele Mattingly, a 67-year-old Sioux Falls resident, is hiking 180 miles across the Great Plains for her favorite animal, giraffes, which are now an endangered species. Mattingly started at Great Plains Zoo on June 22 and hopes to arrive at...

Smittys Split With Sioux Falls On Tuesday From Fossum Field

Posted on July 8, 2025 by - Sports TUES SCHEDULE HIGH SCHOOL Legion Baseball SF Post 15 East 9 F/7 Aberdeen Smittys 15 – WP: Bennett Eisenbeisz 3IP. 5H. 4R. 3ER. 2BB. Lance Siefken 2-4 + run & 4RBI. [Game 1] [Presented by Culvers of Aberdeen] SF...

Travelers can now see new Indigenous art at Rapid City Regional Airport

Sports Briefs: Latest S.D. Amateur Baseball poll, Watertown to host 4-H rodeo

WATERTOWN — There's a change at the top in this week's South Dakota amateur baseball rankings. The Winner-Colome Pheasants are the new No. 1 team in Class B and the Renner Monarchs now share the No. 1 spot in Class A with the Harrisburg Woodies....

Conversation: Former Windom great Timm Gronseth is settling down in South Dakota

(Note: Timm Gronseth was a fabulous all-around athlete at Windom High, earning all-Southwest Conference honors in three sports. He earned All-State in 1984 while leading the Eagles’ baseball team of head coach Dean Jaacks to the first state...

Officers shoot, injure 1 person Monday in Sioux Falls

Officials with the Sioux Falls Police Department say several officers shot and injured a person as they attempted to arrest him on July 7 near the area of West 10th Street and South Garfield Avenue. Assistant Chief Nick Cook, speaking at an 8:30...

35th Anniversary of the ADA marked in Sioux Falls

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The disability community in Sioux Falls is marking the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Vicki Stewart is one of those people with a positive personality and who lights up the room when...

Republican South Dakota lawmaker removes ‘white boy summer’ social media post after criticism

A South Dakota lawmaker removed a social media post that some fellow lawmakers described as “a direct expression of racism and sexism.” Meanwhile, a legislative leader declined to act on the post and criticized the legislators who complained about...

The biggest college football games to watch in South Dakota this fall

SIOUX FALLS — Get out your calendars, (no, seriously, get out a marker and an actual printed-on-paper calendar, we will die on the hill that these are more practical and effective than stashing everything somewhere on your phone) it's time for our...

109 year old former Onida area woman now living in Fort Pierre reigns for the 2nd time as South Dakota Centenarian of the Year

July 7, 2025: A 109 year old woman who grew up in Sully County and is now living in Fort Pierre has earned the title of 2025 South Dakota Centenarian of the Year. Born in January of 1916, Baumberger is the current oldest member of the Century...

Steve White receives top honor from Nebraska Agricultural Youth Council

Sherry Vinton Director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture | Nebraska Department of AgricultureSherry Vinton Director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture | Nebraska Department of Agriculture Steve White, a farm director for KRVN and a...

It's True-Vice Pres. JD Vance Made A Surprise South Dakota Trip

South Dakota had a special surprise visit over the 4th of July holiday weekend. It's not every day that the Vice President of the United States comes to South Dakota for a family vacation. But Vice President JD Vance, along with his family, made...

Monday Scoreboard (SDGA + Legion Baseball – 7/14/25)

Posted on July 14, 2025 by - Sports MON SCHEDULE HIGH SCHOOL Golf SDGA Sanford International Series in Rapid City [Day 1 of 2] Day 1: Hart Ranch GC / 2: Meadowbrook GC GGID: SIS25RAPID GIRLS SCOREBOARD: 1st) Rylan Horning (Rapid City, SD; +7, 79)...

Nasty Large Hail Storm Coming To South Dakota, Iowa, & Minnesota

UPDATE 8:20 AM: This major storm system will be widespread across the Sioux Empire. Storms could start as early as 2 PM. Here's the latest from our friends at the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls. The morning severe storm outlook from the...

Blues singer and songwriter Samantha Fish returning to Sioux Falls 

Samantha Fish, an ever-so-talented blues-rock artist, is returning to Sioux Falls for a show next Thursday, July 10, at the Icon Lounge. Known for her electrifying performances, Fish, with her guitar in hand, brings her Southern Kansas City charm...

Ex-Ticket hosts Danny Balis, Sirois brothers step into the future of entertainment

Danny Balis and Mike Sirois were on-air personalities at the juggernaut sports talk radio station The Ticket in 2022. They both left the station within weeks of each other in spring of that year. Realizing there were limited opportunities to move...