Rapid City

Two Rapid City organizations have partnered to provide information to Black Hills tourists about the accessibility of businesses and other attractions.

Rapid City Regional Airport has been awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop a flight to the San Francisco Bay area. It will be matched by over $550,000 in local donations and non-monetary contributions.

Higher interest rates typically slow down a hot housing market. But in Sioux Falls and Rapid City, those factors are not affecting the market yet.

In Rapid City, this week people are gathering to commemorate the flood of 1972 and to honor the 238 people who died.

Months before the Rapid City demonstrations, city leaders and others were already organizing a tour of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Though many people make the 80-mile drive from Pine Ridge to Rapid City on a weekly basis, the same often isn't true for citizens of Rapid City. The tour was intended as the first step toward better relations between the two communities.

Rapid City is staying neutral even though its economy would benefit from the plan.

The U.S. Census Bureau has released its Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Rapid City not only ranks in the top 8% in the nation, but is the fastest-growing metro area in the Midwest.

Student athletes received a grand, red-carpet welcoming by family, friends and members of the Rapid City Community.

Downtown Rapid City is getting a new hotel and 130 loft apartments. A Hyatt Place Hotel will join Block 5 Lofts on St. Joseph Street between Fifth and Sixth streets.

Don Barnett led Rapid City through the construction of a new arena, a response to a devastating flood, and a period of civil unrest when he was mayor in the 1970s. His new memoir, "Thorns and Roses," reflects on those momentous years in the city's history.