Snow

By Northern Plains News Service Recent snow and rains greatly improved South Dakota’s drought situation. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, heavy and record-setting precipitation fell this past week in the High Plains Region. In South Dakota, a blizzard set several snowfall...

RAPID CITY (AP) — More snow is on the way for parts of the Black Hills in western South Dakota, as crews continue working to restore power to people who lost electricity during a blizzard earlier this month. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the...

PIERRE (AP) — The director of an agricultural organization says more than 5 percent of the cattle in western South Dakota might have been killed from the wind and snow of a weekend storm. South Dakota Stockgrowers Association Director Silvia Christen says she has talked with...

RAPID CITY (AP) — Pilots with the South Dakota Wing of the Civil Air Patrol are searching for hunters who might be stranded in the Black Hills after the weekend snowstorm. The Department of Game, Fish and Parks asked for the search after getting numerous reports of stranded hunters. The...

RAPID CITY (AP) — Rapid City's airport has reopened, after being shut down by a weekend snowstorm that dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on the city. The airport reopened at 8 a.m. Monday, after crews removed snow, restored electricity and repaired damage from the storm. Officials...

Football games, scheduled to be played Friday, were postponed due to heavy snows that hammered the Black Hills and kept the teams like the Hill City Rangers from playing the Lyman Raiders. On Saturday snows closed most roads in the Hills and Interstate 90 from Wall to the Wyoming...

PIERRE – Gov. Dennis Daugaard has ordered all state offices in the Black Hills area closed today (Friday) because of the strong storm impacting the area. State offices are closed in Butte, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Custer and Fall River Counties. Officials are monitoring...

Heavy snow and strong winds are making travel extremely difficult on many roads in the Black Hills area, Transportation and Public Safety officials say. “Conditions are deteriorating rapidly on many of the highways in the Black Hills, and some roads likely will become impassable...

PIERRE (AP) — South Dakota officials have closed Interstate 90 from Sturgis to the Wyoming border because of the early autumn blizzard hitting the western part of the state. Officials say that section of the interstate will remain closed until storm conditions improve and crews...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Autumn storms are threatening much of the Midwest, with heavy snow in South Dakota and possibly dangerous thunderstorms from Wisconsin to Oklahoma. The National Weather Service says the summerlike system expected to hit the Plains on Friday could pack thunder,...