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Data Matters Forums to Highlight State of the Black Hills

This spring, DataMatters workshops present top-notch experts in Education, Health & Welness and The Economy. Register Now!

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KOTA TV reports on income disparities map for the Black Hills. Check out the related story in the Rapid City Journal. See map on the Black Hills Knowledge Network here.

 

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The Bush Foundation has awarded the Black Hills Knowledge Network a $100,000 to expand its offerings of data, news and information.

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Stephanie Bents, from the Rapid City Public Library, and Suzanne Martley, from Rapid City's Sustainable Cities Taskforce, talk about the Black Hills Knowledge Network's role in making local information accessible. Listen to the podcast.

Featured Articles

Our new data visualization tracks health rankings over the last three years for each of our seven Black HIlls counties as measured by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute.

From "A Nation at Risk" to "No Child Left Behind," the decades of debate over education reform in the United States are about to bear fruit in the form of overhauled assessment tests and a nationalized "core curriculum," said a former South Dakota education secretary at the recent Data Matters Forum on Education.

 

Lecture series will begin in May through August will explore the science, history, and the legacy of the Flood of 1972.

 

Pennington County experienced one of the highest rates of West Nile Virus in South Dakota between 2002 and 2006. The number of incidents has dropped dramatically in the last few years, but there are good reasons to stay informed.

Wounded Knee was the site of both a 1890 conflict and a protest in 1973. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the occupation of Wounded Knee.

Stories of the Black Hills

January 2, 2012 09:37 AM

An enterprising hairdresser from Denver moved to Rapid City in 1927 to attend First Lady Grace Coolidge during her summer White House stay in the Black Hills.

July 8, 2011 07:59 AM

Childhood memories of the family band on the Dakota frontier produce 1960s Disney production.

June 25, 2011 03:47 PM

Peggy Keenan shuttled between the Holy Terror mine and the streets of New York in the early 1960s to build a successful mining company. For women aspiring to careers in fields traditionally dominated by men, she was a path breaker.

William Howard Taft campaigning in South Dakota.
June 17, 2011 09:41 PM

Crowds turned out to catch a glimpse or shake the hand of President William Howard Taft when he came to the Black Hills in 1911 seeking support for his embattled administration.

June 11, 2011 12:43 PM

 

When federal officials, in response to wartime needs, halted gold-mining, nearly 2,000 employees at Homestake Mine lost their jobs and subsequently joined the armed forces or moved.