Author: DawnSherine Bernard
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The Sports Complex, Full Circle? What’s Coming to Wednesday’s Legal and Finance Committee and the History that Got it this Far
Rapid City SD- Next Wednesday, the Legal and Finance Committee will take up a naming rights agreement that would lock Sanford Health’s name onto the city’s new sports complex for the next 21 years. It’s a small procedural step on its face — an origination at Legal and Finance on August 12, ahead of a…
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The Optics Check: A $10 Million Trial Balloon and the Shadow Over Rapid City’s Youth Sports Complex
Rapid City SD – Running the 20-minute game clock on a municipal maneuver — and a name barely three weeks in the ground. 20:00 — The Premature Celebration On Thursday, Aug. 6, at 10:30 a.m., Mayor Jason Salamun and Sanford Health officials stood in a parking lot along East Mall Drive to celebrate a $10…
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With Sanford’s $10M Locked In For Rapid City’s Sports Complex, City Council Eyes Next Steps
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Rapid City officials and the Rapid City Sports Commission announced Thursday morning that Sanford Health will hold the naming rights for the city’s planned multipurpose sports complex. The multi-million-dollar corporate partnership is a significant milestone, but several major structural pieces are still slated to fall into place next week, when the…
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The Holding Cell for General AG: Precedent Set for Rapid City – Cartoon
The Holding Cell Playbook: A Rezoning Batch That Passes the Paper Test, Not the Sniff Test The Samco Road Fire Sale: Inside the AG Zoning Rush Along Cement Plant Road
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Rapid City’s Hemp Crackdown Was Already Underway. Now It’s Part of a National Fight.
Rapid City, SD. — When South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley signed onto a 35-state coalition letter this week urging Congress to keep a stricter federal definition of hemp in place, it read like a routine statehouse press release — one AG among three dozen, weighing in on a Washington fight over a 2018 Farm…
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Same Land, New Ribbon: What Today’s Press Release Left Out Regarding the Elevate Business Park
Correction, Aug 5 2026: This piece originally stated that 24020 Hardesty Road has served as Hills Construction, Ltd.’s registered office “since 1995.” State filings show the company’s registered office moved away from that address in 2008–2009 and has not returned there since, most recently relocating to Keystone in 2026. The piece also described the paper…
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The Holding Cell Playbook: A Rezoning Batch That Passes the Paper Test, Not the Sniff Test
Rapid City SD- It doesn’t take a cloak and dagger to be underhanded. A rezoning can clear every procedural box — proper notice, staff recommendation, clean votes, mandatory oversight conditions — and still represent a use of the system that doesn’t survive a second look. Legal, but Is It Right? Here’s the timeline that matters.…
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What’s on Rapid City’s Table Monday Night 7/20/2026
Reprint after wp2shell rebuildRapid City SD- Rapid City’s Common Council has a packed evening ahead on July 20 — a special session on next year’s budget followed by a regular meeting carrying five separate storylines this outlet has been tracking. Here’s what’s known, what the documents say, and what’s still unanswered heading into the vote.5:30…
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What’s on Monday’s August 3rd Rapid City Council Agenda
Rapid City SD- Most of this agenda is standard municipal housekeeping. A handful of items connect to stories we’ve already been tracking, and we’ve flagged those below. Consent Items — Public Works Committee Fourteen items, almost all routine contract administration: change orders (a few thousand dollars up or down) on active projects like the Elk…
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What We Know – and Don’t Know – About Rapid City’s Water Infrastructure Cyber Incident
Rapid City SD- The City of Rapid City recently disclosed a cyber incident involving one of its lift stations, part of the city’s wastewater system. According to the city, officials discovered the attempt quickly and took precautions to protect the system. The city says at no time was its water or wastewater infrastructure placed in…