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COVID-19

The anniversary nobody wanted: five years with COVID-19

By Carrie Moritz, Gazette This March marks the five-year anniversary since President Donald Trump declared a National Emergency on March 13, 2020, and South Dakota...

South Dakota received $14 billion of federal pandemic relief

Bart Pfankuch South Dakota News Watch South Dakota received nearly $14 billion in federal COVID-19 funding from March 2020 through January, according to an internal state...

Rising anger and violence toward healthcare workers hampering patient care in S.D.

Bart Pfankuch South Dakota News Watch Increasing anger and even violence toward healthcare workers in South Dakota and across the U.S. is adding great stress on...

South Dakota COVID-19 cases finally declining statewide, 203 total deaths for January 2022

            After hitting a record high of 36,247 reported active cases of COVID-19 on January 24, South Dakota is on the back side of...

Letter to the Editor: Garretson Schools Move to “Yellow” Status

To: All parents, guardians and patrons of the Garretson School District Greetings,             The number of Covid-19 cases in the region continue to climb, and the...

Many South Dakota parents hesitant to get children vaccinated against COVID-19

Megan Raposa South Dakota News Watch Compared to other Great Plains states, South Dakota is off to a slow start in getting children ages 5-11 vaccinated...

Political partisanship driving vaccine hesitancy in South Dakota

Editor's Note 9-29-21: Due to a formatting error, a portion of the article was omitted from the printed issue. Due to this, we have...

COVID-19 numbers are back on the rise!

On Tuesday, the South Dakota Department of Health announced 720 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 65 probable cases. This was in addition to the...

No COVID protocols for high school sports this fall

By Dana Hess For the S.D. Newspaper Association PIERRE — The pandemic-inspired safety protocols that high school athletes needed to adhere to last year will not...

Editorial: Balancing public health and individual liberties

To the editor: Protection of individual freedom or liberties is among the essential elements of our democracy. The most important of these liberties are enumerated...

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