Author: DawnSherine Bernard
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What’s on Thursday Mornings Agenda for Rapid City’s Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission
Rapid City SD – Rapid City’s Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission meet back-to-back Thursday morning, starting at 7:00 a.m. in the City Council Meeting Room. Eight items are up between the two bodies. Most of it is routine — a garage, a couple of subdivisions, a variance or two. Two items carry more…
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The Heart of the Rush: Celebrating Nuggets Birthday and Nearly Two Decades on the Ice
RAPID CITY, SD — In a town where local sports franchises come and go, one towering, 6-foot-5 presence on the ice has remained a constant beacon of pure, unfiltered community spirit. August 22, marks the official birthday of Nugget, the amiable donkey mascot of the Rapid City Rush. While his major on-ice promotional birthday bash…
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Three Courtrooms, One Empire: Inside the Bankruptcy Fight Now Deciding the Fate of the Rushmore Hotel and an $86 Million Dollar Ranch in Pennington County
Rapid City SD — In the same week the city closed the book on 28 demolished garages at Star Village, the rest of Adam Hendry’s South Dakota real estate empire was quietly coming apart in a Florida bankruptcy court — on three separate fronts, all at once, all tied together by the same lender, the…
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Rapid City’s Water Restrictions Are Now Year -Round – And the Region Is Watching the Same Skies
Rapid City SD- The City of Rapid City announced this week that its outdoor watering restrictions, typically confined to June through August, will now continue through the entire year. The decision follows the city’s move to elevate Pactola Reservoir’s storage condition from “Concern Status” to “Alert Status” — a designation that, under the city’s own…
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Behind the Bench: How a Federal Fraud Investigation Traces to the Rapid City Rush
Rapid City’s ECHL team has been owned by the same North Carolina sports agency since 2019. What most fans watching from The Monument likely don’t know is that agency’s own ownership now runs, through several layers, straight up to a billionaire currently under federal investigation for alleged fraud. The Rush aren’t accused of anything. Nothing…
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A Chosen Family, Federal Mandates, Oxford Houses, and the End of Public Hearings for Reasonable Accomodations
Rapid City SD- The tension between a neighborhood’s “right to know” and a citizen’s federal right to privacy collided at city hall this month. The result? A fundamental change to how Rapid City handles group living accommodations is now one vote away from final passage — conveniently ending the exact kind of scrutiny that had…
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Cone-troversy on Main Street – Editorial Cartoon
Rapid City Council Recap 8/17: Sanford Deal Sails Through, Sidewalk Fight Goes the Developers Way
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Rapid City Council Recap 8/17: Sanford Deal Sails Through, Sidewalk Fight Goes the Developers Way
Rapid City SD – Public comment opened the night with its usual range — a resident pushing to beautify the city with flowers, a few of the meeting’s regulars returning to familiar themes, a man asking in apparent earnest whether he’d be arrested for putting a traffic cone on a president’s head downtown, a speaker…
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The Recap Prior to Monday’s City Council: Split Decisions and Supplemental Funds
What’s on the Rapid City Council Agenda for Aug. 17, 2026: Council takes up the Reasonable Accommodation ordinance, a $1.28M appropriation, and decides who actually wins the sidewalk waiver argument. Consent Agenda Highlights Council opens Monday with 20 consent items — five sets of minutes going back to late July. A string of Public Works…
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Sanford Bought the Microphone- Paying for its own Q&A about its own Deal
Rapid City SD- On August 13, Mayor Jason Salamun sat on a stage at an Elevate Rapid City luncheon, one of several panelists arranged across a small riser, answering questions about the Indoor Sports Complex rising off Mall Drive. Also on the panel: Domico Rodriguez, executive director of the Rapid City Sports Commission. Caleb Arceneaux,…