May 11, 2020

RAPID CITY, S.D. – In a Monday release, the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Health Board stated that 12 patients of the Oyate Health Center in Rapid City have tested positive for COVID-19. C.E.O. of the health board, Jerilyn Church, says one of those patients is an employee at the Wal-Mart store on LaCrosse Street in […]

PIERRE, S.D. – Governor Kristi Noem says she is concerned that the COVID-19 checkpoints on two South Dakota reservations could obstruct essential services. “If somebody needs an ambulance on a reservation, that one can get to them, and I’m not sure of that today with these checkpoints operating the way they are.” Noem says she’s […]

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says a shipment of an antiviral drug will be sent to the state this week to help treat severe cases of the coronavirus. Noem said Monday during her daily press conference, the shipment of remdesivir is intended for South Dakota’s “very worst cases” of COVID-19. The Food […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. – Rapid City police are investigating the robbery of a pharmacy early Monday morning. The robbery happened at around 2:50 a.m. at the Walgreens Pharmacy on Mountain View Road. Police say a store worker told them that a man, wearing a light-colored jacket, dark jeans, black mask, and dark shoes; jumped over […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. – Rapid City Police say aeveral guns were reportedly stolen from what they believe to be an unlocked pickup sometime before Friday night. Police were called around 6:20 a.m., Saturday, about the vehicle burglary on the 500 block of Viking Drive. The pickup owner told police that the night before, it was […]

SCENIC, S.D. – A 29-year-old woman has been identified as the person who died in a one-vehicle crash Thursday night near Scenic. A 2006 Chevy Impala was traveling westbound on South Dakota Highway 44 when the driver failed to negotiate a left curve. The vehicle went off the roadway to the right and rolled. Rae […]

PIERRE, S.D. – Both Meade and Pennington Counties reported an additional COVID-19 case in the Monday report released by the South Dakota Department of Health. The total number of new cases statewide was 97 Monday with the number of active cases increasing to 1,393. Pennington County now has 16 active cases and Meade County has […]

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. – The Miss America Organization announced Friday that the 2021 Miss America competition, previously scheduled for December, would be postponed until next year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result of this announcement, the South Dakota Scholarship Foundation board voted to also postpone the Miss South Dakota and Miss South Dakota’s […]