Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zebra mussels at Lewis and Clark Lake near Yankton, South Dakota. (Photo courtesy of Sam Stukel/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) ...

Emails obtained by clean-water advocates show the state of South Dakota declined $290,000 of federal funding for zebra mussel decontamination stations at Pactola Reservoir, which the advocates say is ...

Severe thunderstorms prompted an alert for nearly 5,000 people on Monday afternoon, with National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists warning that any people or animals caught outdoors would be ...

Those sweet, stout, stocked rainbow trout in Pactola Reservoir don’t have to worry about me these days. I like to tease them with a fly rod and a woolly bugger during the warm, open-water months, but ...

PACTOLA RESERVOIR, S.D. — Hundreds of swimmers took to the Pactola Reservoir Sunday morning for the annual Pure Pactola open-water swimming competition. The event featured multiple distances designed ...

Flathead Lake Biological Station released its 2024 Aquatic Invasive Species report recently, after pitching in to inspect more than 100,000 boats for invasive species. Nearly half of those boats ...

A 2015 view of the Pactola Reservoir in the Black Hills. (Courtesy of Black Hills National Forest) The federal government approved a 20-year ban Thursday on new mining-related activity in a portion of ...

A 2015 view of the Pactola Reservoir in the Black Hills. (Courtesy of Black Hills National Forest) The federal government approved a 20-year ban Thursday on new mining-related activity in a portion of ...

Two complete closures are scheduled on the only north-south highway through the Black Hills of South Dakota for the state’s reconstructing U.S. Highway 385 project. The first closure, which began on ...

The two-lane highway provides access to Pactola Reservoir and Sheridan Lake. The road is also a pipeline to Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Crazy Horse Memorial and helps fuel a regional tourism ...

PACTOLA RESERVOIR, S.D. – Angie Weaver, who co-owns the Pactola Marina in the Black Hills, remains hopeful that the full closure of U.S. 385 won't sink her summer revenues that are critical to ...

Welcome to Rapid City - a city so small, it might just be considered a small town by anyone from states with populations of more than a couple million. Nevertheless, it's a nice place - and it's a ...