BELLE FOURCHE –– Many Northern Hills parents are filled with concerns about health, finances, security, and more, but in Belle Fourche, Lunchtime Solutions has gone the extra mile to ensure parents needn’t worry about how they’ll feed their kids.
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SPEARFISH — A banner hung on Spearfish Monument Hospital honoring healthcare workers.
SIOUX FALLS (AP) — South Dakota health officials on Monday reported 32 new cases of the coronavirus, the lowest daily total since late July.
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BELLE FOURCHE –– Butte County has seen a consistent increase in the number of criminal cases handled by the state’s attorney’s office in the last handful of years, and even during a global pandemic, 2020 was no different.
SPEARFISH — makeSPACE is launching its local fundraising effort to encourage people who are able to share a portion of their federal COVID stimulus checks with those in the community that are more financially impacted by the pandemic.
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DEADWOOD — The gift of a 20% increase in December was just what Deadwood gaming needed to bridge the pandemic-induced six-week shutdown gap, as statistics released by the South Dakota Gaming Commission Thursday show double digit gains for December compared to 2019.
PIERRE — State health officials are seeing COVID-19 numbers drop across South Dakota, but encourage people to continue taking infection protection measures even as vaccine distribution moves forward.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Drugmaker Eli Lilly said Thursday its antibody drug can prevent COVID-19 illness in residents and staff of nursing homes and other long-term care locations.
RAPID CITY — The South Dakota Department of Health vaccine distribution plan entered into a new category in its phase one roll out Monday; phase “1D”, which is open to South Dakotans 65 years old and older.
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NORTHERN HILLS — More than 20% of South Dakota children have missed routine vaccinations since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country.
STURGIS — Thirteen vehicles were involved in two related crashes that injured four on Interstate 90 Monday afternoon.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota health officials say the state on Monday is launching the next phase of coronavirus vaccinations.
PIERRE (AP) — South Dakota is looking to build on one of the nation’s fastest COVID-19 vaccinations rollouts so far by making vaccines available to a much larger group of people, though some health care providers are cautioning that vulnerable people in rural areas could be left behind in the rush.
STURGIS — Two South Dakotans have died after receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. State officials told the Pioneer Jan. 14 the deaths are not related to the vaccine.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Getting 100 million shots into Americans’ arms in his first 100 days is only the beginning of his coronavirus plan, President-elect Joe Biden declared Friday. Lasting impact, he said, will come from uniting the nation in a new effort grounded in science and fueled by …
STURGIS — Two South Dakotans have died after receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. State officials say the deaths are not related to the vaccine.
STURGIS — All fans can now attend winter sports events in the Meade School District.
PIERRE — South Dakotans want to know when it will be their turn to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
DEADWOOD — The Lead-Deadwood School District is back from break and Tuesday Superintendent Dr. Dan Leikvold apprised the school board of current COVID-19 cases and other pandemic-related matters.
OPINION — Over 20 million doses of vaccine have been distributed to date, but fewer than 7 million doses have been administered. Federal responsibility has been simply to distribute vaccine to the states: getting shots in arms has been left to local healthcare.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barely a month into a mass vaccination campaign to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration unexpectedly shifted gears Tuesday to speed the delivery of shots. The move came after widespread concern over a slow start even as coronavirus cases and deaths reach new highs.
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BELLE FOURCHE –– With COVID-19 cases declining in the area, the Belle Fourche School Board Monday agreed to begin allowing anyone to attend school sports and activities, contingent upon the continual monitoring of local case numbers.
DEADWOOD — When it comes to short-term rental violations and an impetus to begin navigating this slippery slope and ramping up its regulation, Deadwood is taking the bull by the horns, so to speak.
SIOUX FALLS (AP) — South Dakota health officials on Sunday confirmed 15 deaths due to the coronavirus in the last day, lifting the totals to 29 over the weekend, 97 in January and 1,585 since the start of the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more Native Americans living on reservations in South Dakota to seek homeownership, a potential step toward greater family financial security and community stability in some of the state’s most impoverished regions.
New research suggests Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in the two more-contagious variants of the coronavirus that have erupted in Britain and South Africa.
SIOUX FALLS (AP) — South Dakota reported 12 deaths among people with COVID-19 on Friday, but the state continued to see declining hospitalizations from the virus and progress in administering vaccinations.
NEW YORK (AP) — For Nancy Sinoway, a second coronavirus relief loan would increase the chances that her dressmaking business will survive.
(AP ) — The U.S. registered more COVID-19 deaths in a single day than ever before — nearly 3,900 — on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic.
PIERRE — South Dakota continues to lead the nation in number of doses of COVID-19 vaccinations administered.
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