First Presbyterian Church on Kansas City Street in downtown Rapid City. ( Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – A request by He Sapa Community Alliance to set up a warming shelter at the First Presbyterian Church on Kansas City Street, just a few doors down from where the Hope
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Lakota Cultural Center (LCC) in Eagle Butte. EAGLE BUTTE – At its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, January 6, 2025, the governing board of the Lakota Cultural Center (LCC) in Eagle Butte reaffirmed its mission and operating policies and discussed plans for the future of the Center. The board includes
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J. Garrett Renville, chairman of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, delivers the State of the Tribes address on Jan. 15, 2025, to legislators at the South Dakota Capitol in Pierre. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) Tribal leaders are ready for a new South Dakota governor. Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Chairman J. Garrett Renville
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Snow buries cars in Livingston, Montana. For several years, the Great Plains area (in our case running from Billings to Rapid City) was favored by relatively mild winters. And, until the weekend of January 10-13, that continued to be the case; however, those conditions came to a screeching halt as
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Energy gaps narrowing after 2 years of clean energy programs Climate Power US, a non-profit that advocates for clean, renewable energy, stated that since 2022, there have been 751 new clean energy projects created, which are responsible for 406,007 new, well-paying jobs, according to a recent correspondence. The pay range
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District 4A encompasses the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The black outline is the entire legislative district, while the dashed lines mark the reservation’s segments. (Photo courtesy of the North Dakota Legislative Assembly) ‘Hard-fought progress toward fair representation is now protected’ The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that
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Researcher/historian Dakota Goodhouse (Standing Rock) digitizing Bismarck Indian School records Jan. 3, 2025 at the Kansas City National Archive. (Dennis J. Neumann photo) BISMARCK – Work is underway on a research project that promises to make it easier to access the historical records of a Native American residential boarding school
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EN Versión de audio en español disponible Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the only federal holiday designated as a day of service, to encourage all Americans to volunteer to take action toward the improvement of their community. In observance of the national holiday, schools, government agencies, businesses and banks are closed
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EN Versión de audio en español disponible The United States Postal Service provides a pathway for homeless individuals to have a P.O. Box at no cost. A free P.O. box can be incredibly useful for homeless individuals as it provides them with a secure mailing address. This allows them to receive
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View of Pactola Lake from the Pactola Visitors Center. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – Outgoing Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland called the Pactola Reservoir-Rapid Creek Watershed a “treasured landscape” as she finalized her decision to withdraw more than twenty thousand acres in the Black Hills National Forest
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