Learn how South Dakota's 77,123 square miles compares to five countries, from Kyrgyzstan's mountains to Senegal's coastlines.

EMERY, S.D. (AP) — A seventh-grader in southeast South Dakota has just won the state geography bee for the third consecutive time. Owen Fink won his third South Dakota geography bee earlier this month ...

Filled with fertile prairies, craggy mountains, and rolling hills, is it any wonder that adventurous American pioneers were initially drawn to South Dakota? Over the centuries, the state has seduced ...

Fourth-grade students studying South Dakota’s statehood could be asked to analyze the history instead of just explaining the Homesteading Act. Instead of lecturing on Irish potatoes and Japanese fish, ...

In South Dakota, health care challenges are shaped by geography, an aging population, workforce shortages, chronic diseases ...

1. Since 1991, Clark, South Dakota has hosted an annual celebration of the potato. Regular festivities in the late August tradition include recipe competitions, potato decorating contests, potato car ...