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RAPID CITY - State officials will be in Rapid City this weekend encouraging parents to register their kids in a comprehensive child identification program.

In Sioux Falls I have some favorites where I like to go with my son.

PINE RIDGE, - A unique program on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation aims to give Oglala Sioux youth an outlet through music.

For the children of Sandy Hook Elementary School, one week has passed. But the trauma will go on for a very long time to come.

The shooting of 20 elementary school children and their teachers in Newtown, Ct. in what was supposed to be a safe learning environment, may leave children worried and with plenty of questions for their parents.

If you're a parent or grandparent, Sioux Falls School Counselor Renee Halde has a message worth hearing! In light of the recent Connecticut tragedy, Renee, who has been a counselor at John F. Kennedy Elementary School for the past 11 years, says it's important not to over-plain what happened...

Three Sioux Falls teens talk about how the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut has affected them personally.

Pastor Jeff Hayes of Faith Temple Church in Sioux Falls says one in eight South Dakotans are "food insecure."  In other words, they don't know where their next meal will come from. That includes one in five children in South Dakota. Pastor Hayes participated in a hunger roundtable discussion at the University of Sioux Falls on Thursday...

A new report says South Dakota has violated federal law by removing too many American Indian children from their homes and placing them in foster care with non-Indian families.

During a Monday night Sioux Falls School Board meeting, the members approved on a vote of 4-1 to close three schools: Longfellow, Mark Twain and Jefferson.