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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Montana is an island of legal abortion, but three of the state's five clinics now restrict abortion pills from people in states with trigger bans to shield themselves and patients from legal attacks. -
In response to calls for a global boycott of Russian oil, some say the U.S. should revive the Keystone XL Pipeline, but the company is selling assets. (Story first aired on ATC on March 17, 2022.)
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Aimed at serving a regional "abortion desert," the clinic plans to open, despite the expected overturn of Roe v. Wade. It's become a focal point for abortion debate in the state.
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Rapid City is staying neutral even though its economy would benefit from the plan.
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The donation will help fund the Nucor Mineral Industries Building to replace an aging classroom and research facility that contains asbestos.
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However harsher punishment for fatal crashes doesn’t always result in fewer pedestrian fatalities.
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An SDPB investigation shows most drivers who are not legally intoxicated and accidentally kill pedestrians avoid felonies and jail time.
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The Black Hills National Forest is working with stakeholders to protect and balance recreation, business, the environment and grazing land as it sees an explosion in off-road vehicle riders.
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Protests haven't stopped after the hotel manager said the hotel does not support the owner's statements and will not implement a ban.
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A 2015 outbreak impacted 50 million birds in 15 states. It cost the federal government nearly $1 billion and caused egg prices to spike.
