Efforts are under way to restore flame to South Dakota's Flaming Fountain, an attraction that began life as a glorified natural-gas flare. The fountain is just east of the Capitol building in Pierre, ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The Flaming Fountain area that is part of the war memorials display outside the South Dakota Capitol will be significantly renovated starting later this year. That’s because ...

A short history of the flaming fountain at Capitol Lake in Pierre. The flaming fountain at the Capitol Lake in Pierre burned as a continuous tribute to the state’s veterans from the 1970’s until the ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — More than four decades after U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, some South Dakota veterans of that war are launching a new battle. They want to save the Flaming Fountain that is ...

A 2022 view looking up into the South Dakota Capitol dome in Pierre. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) Majority Leader Scott Odenbach waved his hand behind him, gesturing to the lawmakers’ lobby ...

Water bubbles from the Flaming Fountain, an uncapped artesian well on the Capitol grounds in Pierre. The fountain has not sustained flame in recent years, possibly because of a decline in the amount ...