Awaken Wild Books opened last weekend to a very warm welcome from the Sioux Falls community. Here's what you need to know about the city's new independent book store.

Uniquely Yours is a childcare center and day habilitation facility for medically complex kids who currently fall into a gap between traditional childcare facilities and full-on residential services.

This time around, conversations are looking at the possibility of building a new facility – and keeping the current one in use.

There's always soooo many things going on this time of year. Here's our best attempt at simplifying it for you.

There's 65 years of community in the walls of Smoe's Bar, and when the bar opened Tuesday night for the first time since 2011, that vibe picked right back up, said co-owner Pat Nelson.

A grassroots get-out-the-vote effort is taking a unique approach at encouraging civic engagement with a haunted house in a 130-year-old barn northwest of Sioux Falls.

Jeff and Tammie Broin this week announced a donation of 20 acres of land they own to the City of Sioux falls, which will expand Great Bear Recreation Park to the south.

A new partnership between the South Dakota Lions Foundation and the Minnehaha County Juvenile Detention Center is connecting kids with eyeglasses. It's also helping improve their confidence, as well as their overall attitude, JDC Director Jamie Gravett said.

The people who work at Metro Communications spend their days responding to the most challenging moments in our city – the car accidents, the medical emergencies, the tragedies. But one thing has helped make that job a little bit more palatable: a 4-year-old poodle named Nena.

The Sioux Falls Mobile Market is back on the road this week bringing affordable grocery stores to food deserts across town.

Federal funding cuts are creating a major funding gap for Solace, a Sioux Falls nonprofit providing crisis care and long-term healing for victims of sexual assault, domestic abuse, human trafficking and child abuse.

An upcoming event from local nonprofit Rare by Design aims to start conversations about the importance of representation for people with disabilities and rare diseases.

A new, local documentary called "24 Hours on 8th Street" debuts at the State Theatre later this month.

A brand new housing development in northeast Sioux Falls will bring eight twin-homes and a total of 16 housing units.

Feed Sioux Falls is one of several nonprofits addressing food insecurity in the city, which impacts an estimated 1 in 10 people in Minnehaha County.

Nearly two years after reworking the city's bus routes, transit provider Via is teaming up with the city on a "Better Bus" initiative to improve rider experience.

The St. Francis House is in the midst of a capital campaign to raise $10 million for a planned "Healing Home Campus." Here's how that facility aims to help people move from homelessness to stability with structured, supportive housing.

Sioux Falls Stroll Club started last spring with a goal to build community and give dads a place to connect. Over the last year, it's grown to impact dozens of fathers in the area.

The Sioux Falls Zoo and Aquarium is nearing a fundraising milestone that'll allow it to start construction on a new aquarium on the Great Plains Zoo campus. Meanwhile, they're also looking at renovating the giraffe habitat – here's what you need to know.

The city this week celebrated the opening of the Carver Gallery, a free, public art gallery featuring exclusively local Sioux Falls artists. Here's what you need to know about how it all came together.

A new study details the challenges South Dakota families face in finding quality care for their kids before and after school, and during the summer months.

The fourth annual "All My Relatives" Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ Festival was selected to participate in The Smithsonian "Festival of Festivals" as part of the institution's celebration of American culture and recognizing the country's 250th anniversary.