Child protection advocates are worried that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a spike in child-abuse cases in South Dakota and that the abuse of children was more severe than in the past.

"Right now, I would consider us to be in the delta wave of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.” If immunity is a key to reaching an endemical state, South Dakota might have a ways to go.

State health officials and health system leaders are now familiar faces of the pandemic response in South Dakota, ... What lessons has the state learned from COVID-19? Vaccine Tracker ...

COVID-19 in South Dakota: 171 total new cases; Death … Dr. Clayton said the future of the pandemic comes down to how many people receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit South Dakota restaurants harder than just about any other industry in the state. Six months into the pandemic, with the state economy mostly open for business, ...

South Dakota gripped by pandemic as governor resists mask mandate 01:32. South Dakota has reported more COVID-19 deaths per capita over the last week than anywhere else in the country, and it has ...

South Dakota has also posted some of the country’s highest positivity rates for COVID-19 tests in the last week — over 17% — an indication that there are more infections than tests are catching.

South Dakota may be past the worst of this COVID-19 surge. New coronavirus cases in the state are on the wane; vaccines are perhaps weeks away for nursing home residents at Tieszen and elsewhere. All ...

PIERRE, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - South Dakotans who rely on food stamps missed out on $100 million for groceries because the state declared an end to the COVID-19 emergency while federal ...

More than 215,000 South Dakotans will travel 50 miles or more this holiday weekend, with about 85 percent of them hitting the ...