R APID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - America is getting ready to celebrate its 250th birthday. Each day leading up to the big event, ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Public Safety officials say people flocking to Oahe Dam to view the spectacular release of water are creating a traffic hazard on two area ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - As record amounts of water were flushed through Oahe Dam during the Missouri River flooding last summer, biologists and anglers worried about a repeat of 1997, ...

Fort Peck Dam, in northeastern Montana, was already operating in 1940 and Oahe, a massive reservoir that runs from North Dakota to the dam near Pierre in central South Dakota, was completed in 1962.

Oahe has been out of whack since 1997 when high water forced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release large volumes of water through Oahe Dam in the spring. The timing could not have been worse.

In 1997, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ran what was then record high releases through Oahe Dam, and state biologists later estimated that more than 400 million smelt went with the water.

The five-year walleye tagging project, which is in its final year, focuses on the Missouri River from the Oahe Dam near Pierre, N.D., north to the Garrison Dam near Riverdale, N.D.

PIERRE (AP) - Tours of Oahe Dam and the power plant near Pierre have been canceled indefinitely because of an unspecified security threat under investigation by the FBI. Oahe managers became ...

PIERRE -- Officials say steps are being taken to channel the water if the Oahe Dam's emergency spillway has to be used to move floodwater out of the massive reservoir ...

Close Subscribe Now KELOLAND This Morning Over 60 divers from six states spent the day in the cold Oahe. Their goal was to bring up as much garbage, crawdaddies, fish and buffalo skulls as possible.

The quality of Oahe's walleye population went from boom to bust in 1997, when a large portion of the lake's rainbow smelt were flushed through Oahe Dam in the spring as the Corps battled record ...