Snow hits eastern KELOLAND; COVID-19 positivity rate up; missing Rapid City teen

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It’s Friday, January 14. Start your day with KELOLAND On The Go with everything you need to know in news and weather.

The COVID-19 testing positivity rate in the Monument Health System in Western South Dakota is the highest ever. This has health officials concerned.

Monument Health offers a new COVID-19 testing clinic due to high demand

Sanford Health in Sioux Falls is seeing too many patients in the ER with non-emergency symptoms.

Sanford Health seeing too many non-emergency cases in ER

A local Sioux Falls clinic is facing staff shortages. That in turn is causing stress to workers on top of seeing a huge spike in COVID-19 cases due to the contagious Omicron variant.

Rising COVID-19 cases causing stress in clinics

Friday forecast includes heavy snow, windy conditions

Police in Rapid City are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing teenager.

Rapid City Police looking for missing 16-year-old

Sioux Falls police are looking for a man who walked into a woman’s house and assaulted her. It happened at a home near 10th and Grange around 5:30 Wednesday night.