Balloons drop on O'Gorman high school students as they celebrate being named a National Blue Ribbon School on Thursday, September 23, 2021, in the school auditorium in Sioux Falls.
Donarie "Money" Nuñez trains with boxing coach Jerry James on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at his home gym in Sioux Falls, SD. Nuñez, 19, is returning to boxing as an Olympic hopeful after losing a year of training due to a turbulent home life and felony charges.
Residents of Dell Rapids, SD, deal with massive flooding after severe storms in the area on Friday, September 13, 2019.
Morgan Oskar wears her prom dress in her front yard on Saturday, April 18, 2020, in Sioux Falls. Prom was canceled for the school district due to the coronavirus pandemic, though many students had already made their plans and bought their prom attire. Inspired by the queen’s gown at the renaissance fair Morgan has attended every year of her life, a blue puffy ball gown had fit the bill perfectly. Now, the Lincoln senior does feel like she’s living in a dream, but not the one she planned for. “Nothing feels real,” she said. “I’ve just been trying to keep it together, but being so isolated really sucks. PTSD, paranoia is all crashing in.”
Dakota 38+2 Memorial Riders start their day’s travel from Howard, SD, on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. The horseback journey stretches from the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe to Mankato, MN, commemorating Dakota warriors who died in the largest single-day mass execution in the country on Dec. 26, 1862.
Trent Spirtk, 10, takes a flying leap off a diving board on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, at the Drake Springs Family Aquatic Center in Sioux Falls. A significant heat wave washed over the region in June, leading to crowded public pools.
Ryan Alghoff measures the circumference of a pumpkin at the Great South Dakota Pumpkin Weigh-off on Saturday, October 3, 2020, at Riverview Tree Farm in Canton.
Giles Nitunga shows off a backflip at the Sioux Empire Fair on Friday, August 5, 2022, at the W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls.
Jenny Boever, widow of the deceased Joe Boever, simultaneously smiles and cries after the Senate votes to convict Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg on both articles of impeachment on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. Ravnsborg struck and killed Joe Boever with his car on a highway in 2020.
Devon Levy straightens the long fur of Andy, a Lhasa Apso, at the 60th annual Sioux Empire Kennel Club dog show on Friday, October 28, 2022, at the W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls.
19-year-old Kolbey Weier (Kassie Kain) and 20-year-old Stephen Heesch (Brandi Dandi) dress in drag to create online content from Weier's parents' home on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, in Brookings, South Dakota.
Jeff Thompson walks through his cornfields on Tuesday, October 15, 2019, in Lyons, SD. Harvest is later than typical due to excessive flooding, and a much smaller amount of crops are able to be harvested this year.
Lisa Frock hugs her first-grader, Theodore, before sending him in for the first day of school on Thursday, August 27, 2020 at Discovery Elementary School in Sioux Falls. Visitor restrictions due to the pandemic meant that parents had to say their goodbyes on the playground instead of walking their child into the building.
Tommy Heuer delivers mail during a winter storm on Tuesday, December 29, in Sioux Falls.
Girls look out the window at downtown during a day camp highlighting STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls.
A Canadian goose is brought over to receive a leg band Thursday, June 20, 2019, in Sioux Falls.
Bees work in their hive on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at Teresa Matthies' home in Hartford, SD.
Harley the hawk balances on 16-year-old Gabi Olson's head as the pair head to a wooded area to practice hunting on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at her home in Worthing, SD.
A bighorn sheep grazes in Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
Mila Yang stares in awe at the moving colors of a parachute during a music and movement program on Friday, September 27, 2019, at the Sioux Falls downtown library.
