Food
Eating Wild Cactus
Wild plants like the prickly pear cactus have served many purposes. [read more ]
Ambassadors For Beef
Kneading Tradition
Hunting Charles Mix Plums
Apple Pie: It's in the Bag
Travel
Gateway to the Sandhills
Nebraska gets rightful credit for the Sandhills, but America’s unique terrain begins in Bennett County, South Dakota. [read more ]
Iron Mountain Road
On the Quartzite Trail
The Entertainers of Milbank
The Dusty Trail
History
The Last Lakota Code Talker
How Clarence Wolf Guts of the Rosebud Reservation fooled the Japanese. [read more ]
Judging a Junk Man
The Fort Sisseton Kid
The Spirit Behind a Tragedy
The Missing Amidons
Outdoors
Explorers of an Unseen World
Curiosity took Jan & Herb Conn of Custer underground to discover the buried treasure that is South Dakota’s Jewel Cave. [read more ]
Last Raft Trip Down ‘Old Mo’
The Winter Deer Hunt
Autumn Grasslands
Looking Up
Culture
Oscar Howe’s Protégé
Bobby Penn became one of America’s leading Native artists. Photo by Don Doll. [read more ]
A Sun Dance and Maka Waconi: Circle of Life
Dressed for Calving
A Song for the Season
Blizzard in a Small Town
Business
The Art of Growing Grapes
Cold-hardy vines thrive on the South Dakota prairie. [read more ]
Turning to the River
A New Look
Rescuing a Colonial
Frosting Zebras
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Events
July 20 - June 09 November 01 - April 01Paul Goetz Toy Collection Exhibit - Yankton
November 27 - November 28Hill City's Olde Tyme Christmas Lighted Parade - Hill City
November 27 - November 29BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL- Sioux Falls
November 28Gregory Mid-Winter Fair - Gregory
All EventsOn This Day
November 25
I.D. Weeks, the University of South Dakota's longest serving president, died on this day in 1983. One of his accomplishments during his 31-year presidency was lobbying Arne Larson to move from Brookings to Vermillion to teach music. Larson arrived in 1966, bringing several grain trucks filled with his collection of 2,000 musical instruments, which would later become the National Music Museum.
Columns
November 19, 2020
A Thanksgiving Table Set for Two
FOOD: The holidays will look different this year, but you can still take comfort in dessert. [read More]
November 18, 2020
Crossing Over
PHOTOGRAPHY: With help from a few digital tools, photographs become works of art. [read More]
October 29, 2020
South Dakota’s Spooky Side
CULTURE: Places where things go bump in the night. Photo by Chad Coppess/S.D. Tourism [read More]
October 27, 2020
Growing Something Special
CULTURE: Unique crops spring from South Dakota’s soil. [read More]
October 22, 2020
Start the Day with Comfort
FOOD: Baked Oatmeal with Berries proves comfort food can be a morning thing. [read More]