PIERRE, S.D. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted inspections of all six tunnels at the Oahe Dam Stilling Basin north of Pierre, S.D., Aug. 29.

At Oahe Dam, 5 miles upstream from Pierre, water is flowing through the power plant and the emergency outlet tubes at a record 150,000 cubic feet a second, or slightly more than 1.1 million ...

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. (KELO) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allowed Missouri River water to keep flowing through Oahe Dam at the planned rate of 30,000 cubic feet per second Wednesday.

At 4 p.m. on Friday, they will have a display of Oahe Dam construction images at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre. Visitors are invited to view the images and share stories of their experiences.

The corps now plans to maintain releases from Oahe Dam at the current level of 85,000 cubic feet a second until Thursday, June 2, 2011, and then step it up to 150,000 by mid-June - much higher ...

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.

The planned route also would run under Lake Oahe, which was created through a dam along the Missouri River. Lake Oahe runs for 231 miles from Oahe Dam in South Dakota to Bismarck, North Dakota.

Film shot between 1948 and 1959 shows the monumental challenge of damming the Missouri. Film shot for the Army Corps of Engineers between 1948 and 1959 shows work on the Oahe Dam across the ...

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, ...

Jason Besmer wasn't a member of that crew. The 19-year-old Custer angler didn't know a thing about the phantom fish haunting the stilling basin, a narrow backwater below Oahe Dam.

by: KELO Posted: Aug 3, 2016 / 06:55 AM CDT Updated: Aug 3, 2016 / 06:55 AM CDT A Watertown resident recently landed what might be a South Dakota state-record chinook salmon on Lake Oahe.