Arielle Zionts
KHN ReporterArielle Zionts, Rural Health Care Correspondent, is based in South Dakota. She primarily covers South Dakota and its neighboring states and tribal nations.
Arielle previously worked at South Dakota Public Broadcasting, where she reported on business and economic development. Before that, she was the criminal justice reporter at the Rapid City Journal and a general assignment reporter at the Nogales International, on the border of Arizona and Mexico. She graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Arielle lives in Rapid City with her cat, Sully.
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Wind Cave National Park shares a northern border with Custer State Park in the Black Hills. Visitors can see bison and pronghorn while traversing scenery ranging from flat prairies to forested mountains and canyons.The Beaver Creek Bridge provides an essential link between the parks across a steep canyon. -
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Hundreds of thousands of bikers are traveling to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota again this year. Last year's rally was linked to several hundred cases. -
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is sending National Guard troops to Texas at the request of that state's governor. A private donation is funding the deployment. It's not clear that that's legal.
