Tigers are not female lions. Pickles are just cucumbers in vinegar, living their best fermented life. Reindeers aren’t ...

The Golden Girl Linoy Ashram is basically Israel’s Simone Biles—only with ribbons and hoops instead of vaults and flips. At ...

The Colts had 100-1 odds to win the Super Bowl before the season, so it makes sense that most would be slow to call them ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

This guide will showcase all of the animals you’ll see in Custer State Park, from bison to mountain lions and mountain goats.

This important (and still unofficial in many places) holiday is celebrated on the same day, and for years, Native American communities have been advocating for it to gain recognition. It’s a day to ...

The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore,” which will be published in November. One hundred years after its initial ...

EDITORIAL: When the president of the United States says he doesn’t think ‘anything’ can get him into heaven, it’s a teachable ...

From Lakota homelands to global icon, Mount Rushmore’s story blends colossal engineering and contested history: how Gutzon Borglum blasted four presidents into South Dakota granite, the abandoned ...

Mount Rushmore is an American icon: Its majestic, 60-foot-tall carved presidential heads, overlooking South Dakota’s Black Hills, have been immortalized in cinema and remain a bucket-list destination ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) – From Badlands National Park to Jewel Cave National Monument, the government shutdown is having an impact on some of South Dakota’s most popular tourist attractions KELOLAND ...