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The law enforcement arm of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is departing the Pine Ridge Reservation, leaving its funding, equipment and investigative responsibilities in the hands of tribal police.

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Twelve people were detained Tuesday after multiple witnesses reported hearing gunfire near downtown Rapid City and some of the suspects hid inside a building for three

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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Humane Society workers hauled four cages with seven Husky puppies into the juvenile jail in Rapid City on a recent Wednesday where they found detained boys eager to give...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Wearing his typical uniform of paint-splattered clothing, Derek “Focus” Smith stood in front of a new, colorful mural full of Lakota imagery painted on a north

RAPID CITY, S.D. — The Sturgis man accused of hiring two men to kidnap and murder his ex-girlfriend Jessica Rehfeld in 2015 has admitted to his role in her stabbing death.

RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Two brothers previously charged with kidnapping a Rapid City woman for nine days last month have now been indicted on six combined kidnapping and sexual and physical abuse charges, while the brother who used to date the victim is facing six more charges from a 2018 incident.

STURGIS, S.D. — Eleven men were arrested in an undercover operation that targeted people using the internet to meet minors for sex during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, according to federal court records unsealed Tuesday, Aug. 13, and the spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Dakota.

STURGIS, S.D. — Law enforcement agencies in Meade and Pennington counties are hiring more officers, temporarily opening a second jail and keeping a courthouse open seven days a week for the Sturgis motorcycle rally and the hundreds of thousands of free-wheeling visitors it will attract over the next…

KEYSTONE, S.D. — A fifth face temporarily appeared on Mount Rushmore Friday, July 12, as a barefoot Nebraska woman illegally scaled the massive sculpture without a rope, making it about 15 feet from the top of the granite mountain, which stands at an elevation of 5,725 feet.

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Charles Rhines learned Tuesday, June 25, that he is scheduled to be executed in early November, 27 years after he stabbed a former co-worker to death while burglarizing a Rapid City doughnut shop.

RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Austin Ehnes came armed with crisply printed resumes for a job fair in Rapid City.

ROCKERVILLE, S.D. — Dogs have alerted to a cadaver scent during several April recovery searches for the 9-year-old girl who ran away from the Black Hills Children’s Home nearly three months ago.

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. - Andrea Norton, a 20-year-old from Hot Springs, “was larger than life,” her mother, Tamera, said Monday. “Her passion was saving the planet” and she believed science and her faith in God went hand in hand.

STURGIS, S.D. - A stuffed pink unicorn with lilac hoofs sits on Serenity Dennard’s neatly made bed with its arms open wide, waiting for the missing girl to return home.

ROCKERVILLE, S.D. - After a girl ran away from a residential youth home last Sunday, staff at the rural Pennington County facility called 911 more than one and a half hours after she went missing.