A South Carolina beach town once nicknamed "Dirty Myrtle" because of its rowdy nightclubs and strip joints has become a ...

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

Records from the South Dakota Department of Social Services show that before the pandemic, in January 2020, about 37,000 households accounting for 78,000 people received $9.9 million in SNAP ...

South Dakota received nearly $14 billion in federal COVID-19 funding from March 2020 through January, according to an internal state fiscal report obtained exclusively by South Dakota News Watch.

The COVID-19 death toll throughout the pandemic is at 3,014 in South Dakota. According to Wednesday’s update to the South Dakota Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard, the deaths are up 12 ...

According to the South Dakota Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard, 2,936 people have died during the pandemic, up 5 from 2,931 the previous week. The deaths reported were in the following age ...

On the flip side, South Dakota’s COVID-19 death rate is in the top 10 in the nation, with 200 deaths per 100,000 people as of April 15. Colorado’s is about half that, with 107 deaths per 100,000.

Yet on March 10, 2020, the TV cameras were watching as she joined Gov. Kristi Noem to announce the first COVID-19 cases and a death in South Dakota.

Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) says South Dakota has fared better than virtually any other state during the pandemic, but she’s talking about economics, not health.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem claimed in a Fox News interview on Tuesday that, thanks to her state’s “unique” approach to the coronavirus pandemic, they “got through it better than ...