Rapid City News Room (733 items)

City Greenhouse Manager Tim Forster retires today after 29 years of City service. Each year, Forster and his crew raise, plant and nurture 40-50,000 flowers and several hundred rose bushes that are placed in the City's parks, frontage areas and numerous visitor locations around the City. Forster works through the winter…

In just three months of 2016, the City's Code Enforcement Division has initiated 128 actions regarding 'nuisances' at home residences, compared to 292 such actions in all of 2015. The 128 actions this year have led to a dozen abatements, costing residents $2,520 in assessed cleanup costs.             Nuisance items…

The Rapid City Planning Commission approved two requests at a February meeting to transform the former Garfield School area on Dilger Avenue to an apartment complex and eight single family homes. The Garfield School hasn't been in operation since the 2000-01 school year.  The requests approved by the Commission will transform the…