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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Gov. Kristi Noem hopes the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade but has introduced bills to further restrict abortion in the meantime. -
A lawsuit says South Dakota's new four-appointment, three-week process for pill-based abortions is risky and disproportionately harms low-income and rural patients.
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A South Dakota doctor says vaccination and booster shots are more safe and effective than natural immunity at preventing COVID-19, as the governor calls for prior infections to count as exceptions to vaccine mandates. -
A second COVID-19 testing site has opened in Rapid City as the Black Hills region sees its highest testing demand and positivity rate — nearly 40% — since the pandemic began. -
The South Dakota Department of Health is using $7 million in federal funding to purchase 1 million rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests that residents can pick up for free. -
Developers behind a luxury private housing development on a mountain in the Black Hills are adding a public, 1,000-foot-long tubing run and mountain bike park designed by a world-class trail builder. -
Meade County residents have mixed feelings about a massive, public shooting range that Game, Fish and Parks wants to build north of Rapid City. -
South Dakotans need to get vaccinated because the highly contagious Omicron COVID-19 is causing high case and hospitalization rates, the state epidemiologist says. -
South Dakota broke records when people bet more than $1.4 billion in Deadwood and spent more than $1 billion on lotteries last year. -
The CEO of an engineering company says improving the visa process for highly skilled foreign workers could help address South Dakota's worker shortage.
