Outdoors

Game, Fish and Parks has failed to hit its target for trapping licenses in five out of the last six years. While the department said some of that is out of its control, it’s important to get those numbers up.

The South Dakota Game Fish and Parks has opened an antelope hunting season in Custer State Park beginning in October 2025.

South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks officials say the 2024 pheasant hunting season saw the highest harvest numbers in over a decade.

Youth and Family Services is partnering with Rushmore Tramway Adventures in Keystone for a free day of adventure.

South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks is naming a major state shooting sports complex after one of the project’s biggest sponsors.

South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks is asking for public input on the department’s updated wildlife action plan.

You're invited to join the world's largest scavenger hunt. In this Dakota Life story from 2008, join SDPB geocaching across South Dakota.

The state Department of Health issues a couple advisories following a sampling program designed to assess the safety of fish consumption.

Black Hills residents can vote online by May 31 for the Thriving Communities Initiative, a $100,000 grantmaking effort that asks them to choose an issue in the community that needs support.

A bill allowing certain electric bicycles on the Mickelson Trail in the Black Hills is advancing in Pierre.