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A company that owns hundreds of decommissioned Army ordinance bunkers in southwestern South Dakota had the ability to evict a tenant who violated the terms of a lease agreement, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

PLATTE — Headlights cut through the early morning darkness Monday as a line of trucks idled outside the Platte Livestock Market, each one loaded with hay and ready for the road.

The vice president of the United States will be in the Black Hills ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.

A tried-and-true model for teaching young children how to read is getting a renewed push in South Dakota public schools.

STURGIS — Every August, headlines out of western South Dakota focus on how many bikers rolled into town, how many crashed, and how many ended up in jail.