De Smet takes a lot of pride in its connection to the Ingalls family. Tessa Flak, director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society of De Smet, said the Kingsbury County town provided much-needed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attendees can view historic sites in De Smet, S.D., during their day trip July 11 as part of LauraPalooza, taking place July 9-11 ...

De SMET, S.D. – A rural South Dakota county known mainly as the former home of beloved author Laura Ingalls Wilder is on the precipice of rapid growth as two record-setting agricultural processing ...

Note: This story has been updated with comments from Gov. Kristi Noem’s office related to First Gentleman Byron Noem’s and the GFP‘s interest in the project. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Visitors come ...

The real Laura Ingalls Wilder (left); Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls Wilder in 'Little House on the Prairie' (right) “[Laura] left a lot of things out, sometimes because she felt they weren’t ...

If an individual dairy farm with up to 25,000 cows and a nearly $1 billion biofuels plant both come to fruition, Kingsbury County could see a sudden surge in its population, economy and tax base.