The Black Hills, Badlands & Lakes Road Trip Road Show; coming to a city near you!

This weekend the city of Deadwood will commemorate the life and times of its most notorious resident, Wild Bill Hickok; with its annual Wild Bill Days.
The weekend-long celebration will take place in Deadwood June 17th-19th

Great news iPhone users, the Black Hills Mobile App is now available for free in the Apple App store.

When is a disaster not a disaster, but the consequences to business could be disastrous? When someone sees a newspaper headline about “South Dakota flooding,” and assumes the whole state is under water. And if that assumption causes them to cancel a vacation to the Black Hills, that would indeed be a disaster to Black …

If you’re around Ellsworth Air Force Base on Saturday (June 4) be sure to not only turn an eye to the sky but join our service men and women on base for the 2011 Dakota Thunder Airshow.

Here is a quick look at some of John C. H. Grabill’s Black Hills photo collection.

John C. H. Grabill, might not initially ring a bell to most; but chances are, if you have taken any interest at all in historic photos of the Black Hills area, you have experienced the work of this brilliantly mysterious man.

Spring is in the air, green grass is growing and the fish are biting. Well, we hope the fish are biting! This weekend is the Open House and Free Fishing Weekend at facilities operated by the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department. That means it’s time to get outside and take advantage of …

Although these bikes can’t be heard with revving engines throughout the Black Hills, there’s no lack of a soundtrack to this good time.

Years ago, in my former life as a newspaper reporter, I covered an unforgettable event. Mark Paulson, a Rapid City teenager, did an Eagle Scout project to release peregrine falcons from the roof of the Alex Johnson Hotel in downtown Rapid City.
The process is pretty involved. Falcons are extremely shy. They had to be kept …