South Dakota’s agriculture industry is one of the biggest contributors to the impairment of state rivers. The polluting occurs with almost no consequence to producers, even those who openly ...

Seventy-eight percent of South Dakota’s rivers and streams are impaired, according to the 2022 DANR water quality report. Eighty-four of 176 assessed lakes and reservoirs are on the impaired ...

SoDak temperatures heat up the bite across the board!

SIOUX FALLS -— The Big Sioux River snakes 420 miles down eastern South Dakota. From its headwaters in Roberts County, it gradually drops 800 feet as it cuts through the Coteau des Prairies ...

State representatives and senators visited North Sioux City and McCook Lake to tour the area one year post-flooding.

Residents are advised to secure docks, lifts and other property near the shoreline and use caution near high water.

After a tour of McCook Lake, South Dakota lawmakers said seeing the damage a year later has left many speechless. “We’ve been ...

Floodwaters surged at the borders of South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota over several days. In northwest Iowa, 13 rivers ...

The species of Snapping Turtles found in South Dakota is the "common snapping turtle" (or known as Chelydra serpentina).