For 12 years he led the Diocese of Rapid City now new challenges await him in Spokane.  Bishop Blase Cupich will be installed as the sixth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, leading an office that has been financially battered by the priest sex abuse scandal. 

The military says a chaplain who died in Afghanistan is the first Army clergyperson killed in action since the Vietnam War.  Capt. Dale Goetz from White, South Dakota was among five soldiers killed by an improvised bomb on Monday.

Two of the riders involved in a two motorcycle accident Wednesday morning on Highway 16 were still listed in critical condition at Rapid City Regional Hospital Thursday afternoon.

The superintendent of Rapid City Area Schools says the district is seeing a big influx of kindergartners this year.  Dr. Timothy Mitchell says the kindergarten classes in North Rapid City are beyond capacity so the district had to add two full-time equivalent teachers to that grade level.

Hundreds of thousands of pieces and - piece by piece - each one was moved into a brand new building where students and staff can learn and help educate the public at the same time.  The South Dakota School of Mines opened the doors Wednesday to its new Paleontology Research Laboratory.