Local News
Mayor TenHaken delivers upbeat message in State of the City - with a word of caution
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A long list of accomplishments and a bright, but challenging future. Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken hosted his State of the City address at the Convention Center this morning. Among the challenges, sales tax revenues running behind expectations that are creating a difficult budgeting pr...
13h ago
More family space for Bishop Dudley House program
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a three and a half million dollar fundraising drive aimed at emergency housing for families. The Bishop Dudley Hospitality House already houses up to 100 individuals in its downtown Sioux Falls center. Now, through a partnership with Interlakes Community Action, it will be able to s...
13h ago
Sioux Falls sales tax revenues lower than projected; budget reserves grow anyway
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Budget reserves for the city of Sioux Falls are growing, even though sales tax collections are running behind expectations. City Councilors received the 2023 year-end financial report last night. Reserves grew to 86-million dollars, even with sales tax growth coming in at 3-percent - tha...
Apr 17, 2024
DSU students staying in South Dakota after graduation
MADISON, SD (KELO.com) -- Dakota State University students appear to be falling in love with the state of South Dakota. DSU President Dr. Jose Marie Griffiths says a high percentage of the school's graduates are staying in South Dakota. 22-percent of the non-resident students are also staying in the state after gradua...
Apr 17, 2024
Toddler injured in fall from third story of hotel
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The condition of a 1 1/2 year old Minnesota boy who fell from the third floor of the Club House Hotel in Sioux Falls Saturday morning is still unknown. The child fell out of a window in a hotel room. Officer Sam Clemens says police are investigating. Clemens says someone with a medical b...
Apr 15, 2024
State News
Legislature to look at ways to prepare for Ellsworth AFB expansion
BOX ELDER, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota legislators have caught their breath and are looking ahead to next year. As they do, committees will study Artificial Intelligence, protecting youth from harmful aspects of the internet, and property tax assessment procedures. Senate Majority Leader Casey Crabtree says another...
Apr 17, 2024
Tribes inquiring about tribal law officer training
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Still no word on whether South Dakota Tribes will accept the state's offer to training tribal law officers - but the offer stands. Governor Noem's office has worked to provide the funding needed to train up to 48 officers. Attorney General Marty Jackley's office says at least a few of the sta...
Apr 15, 2024
Bird flu spreading, but no human cases in South Dakota
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- The spring migration is at its peak - and that means increased risk of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, commonly called bird flu. South Dakota reported its first case involving a dairy herd late last week, becoming the eighth state with cases involving dairy cows. State Health Secretary Mel...
Apr 15, 2024
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Rules committee holds off on GFP plan to issue more non-resident waterfowl licenses
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A South Dakota Legislative committee tapped the brakes today on plans to allow more non-resident waterfowl licenses to be issued next fall.The prairie pothole region in the northeastern part of the state is viewed as some of the best waterfowl hunting area in the nation, and that's where the co...
Apr 15, 2024
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Homicide in Custer ends with multi-state pursuit
CUSTER, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A Friday night homicide in Custer ends with the suspect's suicide in Colorado. The Custer County Sheriff's Office Friday night responded to a report of a homicide at a home west of Custer on U.S. Highway 16. Officers found a deceased adult male. An adult female, who also was assaulted, had dr...
Apr 13, 2024
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National News
Thai divers seek to take on 'ghost gear' threatening marine life
By Napat Wesshasartar PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Beneath the surface of the turquoise waters off a beach on Thailand's holiday island of Phuket, divers laboriously collect abandoned fishing gear, much of it made from plastic, that is tangled on c...
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US restricts drilling and mining in Alaska wilderness, angering state leaders
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Friday took steps to limit both oil and gas drilling and mining in Alaska, angering state officials who said the restrictions will cost jobs and make the U.S. reliant on foreign resources. Th...
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Emirates suspends flights transiting through Dubai after storm
DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai's flagship airline Emirates is suspending check-in for all customers with onward connections through the city, it said on Friday, three days after a record storm swept the United Arab Emirates. Emirates, one of the world's b...
2h ago
Biden's tariff warnings signal sharp anti-China election battle
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - The Biden administration's threat to impose more tariffs on China is the latest election-year signal that frostier relations with China are likely to follow regardless of who wins the U.S. presidency. U.S. President J...
3h ago
Indonesia extends closure of airport in Manado due to volcanic ash
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has extended the closure of the main international airport in North Sulawesi due to volcanic ash disruption from eruptions at Mount Ruang, the Transport Ministry said on Friday. The airport will be closed until 6 PM lo...
3h ago
World News
Factbox-What is the Russian bomber plane that Ukraine says it shot down?
(Reuters) - The Ukrainian military said its anti-missile units succeeded for the first time on Friday in shooting down a Russian Tu-22M3 bomber plane. Russia said the plane had crashed as it returned to base, apparently due to a technical malfuncti...
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UK PM Sunak: Not right for me to speculate on reports of attack in Iran
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would not speculate on reports Israel had carried out an attack on Iranian soil on Friday. "It's a developing situation, it wouldn't be right for me to speculate until the facts become c...
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Russia's Shoigu says tank production is booming
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday that the country was ramping up manufacturing of tanks and heavy flamethrower systems, but more work was needed to increase production of tank protection equipment. Shoigu's m...
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Two held in Poland over attack on Navalny aide, Lithuania says
WARSAW (Reuters) - Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Leonid Volkov, an exiled top aide to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda told reporters on Friday. Volkov suffe...
1h ago
G7 identified "specific steps" to help Ukraine, Kuleba says
CAPRI, Italy (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies have identified "specific steps" needed to help Ukraine fight Russia, Kyiv's foreign minister said on Friday, warning Europe would be engulfed by war if Russi...
1h ago
Sports
NCAA Hockey returns to the Denny
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Major college hockey is back at the Premier Center in Sioux Falls. Four teams are competing for a spot in the Frozen Four. Boston takes on Rochester Institute of Technology this afternoon. Minnesota squares off against the University of Nebraska-Omaha tonight. It's the first time the N...
Mar 28, 2024
Two of SDSU's leading players moving on
BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- It appears as though South Dakota State University will have some rebuilding to do before the 2024-25 basketball season. Two of its leading players are entering the NCAA transfer portal. William Kyle the Third was the first to announce he would enter the portal. Now, Zeke Mayo is declarin...
Mar 27, 2024
Milbank native, former USF standout new coach at Alabama
TUSCALOOSA, AL (KELO.com) -- A Milbank native now holds the reigns of one of college football's premiere programs. Kalen DeBoer has succeeded Nick Saban as coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide A record-setting receiver at the University of Sioux Falls, DeBoer became head coach of the Cougars in 2005. Over the next five se...
Jan 13, 2024
A big game and a bobblehead to boot
A little extra bling to go with a rematch from last year's football championship game...that is, if you consider a bobblehead bling. SDSU and NDSU squ...
Nov 03, 2023
Pheasant opener gives big boost to local economy
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- With the opening of this year's pheasant season hunters from all over the country will be flocking to South Dakota. St...
Oct 21, 2023
Business News
Exclusive-German government slightly raises 2024 GDP forecast to 0.3%, source says
By Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government will raise its economic growth forecast for this year to 0.3%, from a previous forecast of 0.2%, a source told Reuters on Friday. In 2025, the government expects gross domestic product to grow by...
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Lufthansa seeks to persuade EU regulators over ITA stake buy
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Lufthansa executives and lawyers will attend a day-long hearing in Brussels on Friday to try to convince EU antitrust regulators to clear the company's bid for a minority stake in Italian rival ITA Airways. Luft...
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Wall Street's "fear gauge" at over 5-month high on rate cut, Mideast worries
(Reuters) - Wall Street's "fear gauge" hit its highest in more than five months on Friday due to a sharp pullback in interest U.S. rate cut expectations and escalating geopolitical tensions. The CBOE Volatility index, an options-based measure of in...
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Explainer-Bitcoin's 'halving': what is it and does it matter?
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin's long-anticipated 'halving' is, depending on where you sit, a vital event that will burnish the cryptocurrency's value as an increasingly scarce commodity, or little more than a technical change talked up by speculators ...
1h ago
Take Five: Dancing to the dollar's beat
(Reuters) - Just when it looked like rate cuts were coming any minute now, inflation has reared its head and the strength of the dollar is forcing other central bankers to protect their currencies and reconsider their policy choices. What appeared ...
1h ago
Health News
Blackstone nears deal to sell S.Korean pharma wholesaler to MBK Partners, sources say
By Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Private equity firm Blackstone Inc is nearing a deal to sell its controlling stake in South Korean wholesale drug distributor Geo-Young to North Asian buyout fund MBK Partners for over $1 billion, three sources said...
1h ago
China's drugmakers can't sell mRNA shots but haven't quit yet
By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI/SUZHOU, China (Reuters) - China's vaccine developers stuck with unused mRNA COVID shots and idle manufacturing plants are pursuing new targets for the novel messenger RNA technology, but they face a tough path, crimped by ...
4h ago
US FDA mandates label updates on CAR-T cancer therapies
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday cancer therapies that use CAR-T technology will require changes to the so-called "boxed warning" to highlight the serious risk of T-cell blood cancer in patients who use these thera...
9h ago
J&J wins trial over Florida woman who claimed its baby powder caused her cancer
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida jury on Thursday concluded that Johnson & Johnson's baby powder talc product did not cause the ovarian cancer of a Florida woman who died in 2019. The lawsuit was brought by family members of Patric...
9h ago
World Bank sets goal of expanding healthcare to 1.5 billion people by 2030
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank Group on Thursday unveiled a new goal to help countries deliver affordable healthcare to 1.5 billion people by 2030 by expanding services to remote areas, cutting fees and other financial barrie...
14h ago
Science News
Three Russians parachute from stratosphere to North Pole
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russians set a world record for parachuting from the Earth's stratosphere to the North Pole last week in a mission that also served as a test of a new prototype communications system for use in the Arctic, an organiser of t...
1h ago
Fossils of colossal snake Vasuki unearthed in India mine
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 49 feet (15 meters) in length - longer than a T. rex - that prowled the sw...
18h ago
Gigantic marine reptile's fossils found by British girl and father
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Eart...
Apr 17, 2024
Head of Russian space agency says work under way on modernised Angara rocket
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is working on a modernised Angara-A5M rocket capable of launching manned spacecraft, and plans to launch it in 2027, the head of its Roscosmos state space agency said on Wednesday. "Already now, by order of Roscosmos, a mo...
Apr 17, 2024
Astronomers detect Milky Way's second-largest known black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galax...
Apr 16, 2024
Technology News
Crypto fans count down to bitcoin's 'halving'
By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin enthusiasts were eagerly waiting for bitcoin's 'halving' on Friday - a change to the cryptocurrency's underlying technology designed to cut the rate at which new bitcoins are created. The halving, wh...
1h ago
UK regulator says Google's ad-privacy changes fall short, WSJ reports
(Reuters) -The UK privacy regulator said Google's proposed replacements for cookies need to do more to protect consumer privacy, the Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday, citing internal documents reviewed by them. Google's proposed technology, d...
4h ago
India's Infosys falls as annual revenue outlook disappoints
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Shares of Infosys fell as much as 2.9% on Friday, a day after India's No.2 software services exporter forecast annual revenue below expectations, raising doubts over predictions of early recovery in the sector. Its shares were...
4h ago
Bitcoin slides below $60,000 on reports Israel strikes Iran
(Reuters) - Cryptocurrencies fell heavily and bitcoin broke below $60,000 on Friday in a rush out of risky assets following reports of an Israeli missile strike on Iran. Bitcoin slid more than 5.5% to $59,961 in the Asia session as the U.S. dollar ...
6h ago
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on government order
(Reuters) -Apple removed Meta Platforms' WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China on Friday after the iPhone maker was ordered by the Chinese government. "The Cyberspace Administration of China ordered the removal of these apps from the China s...
6h ago
Entertainment News
Sony, Apollo discuss joint bid for Paramount, says source
By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) - Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management are discussing making a joint bid for Paramount Global, according to a person familiar with the matter. The companies have yet to approach Paramount, which is ...
8h ago
Netflix handily beats subscriber targets but misses on revenue forecast
By Lisa Richwine and Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Netflix blew past Wall Street expectations on new customers for the second straight quarter on Thursday but signaled the positive surprises could be over, forecasting revenue growth slightly ...
12h ago
NBA's exclusive TV rights talks with Disney, Warner likely to end without deal, CNBC reports
(Reuters) -The National Basketball Association's exclusive media rights negotiating period with current partners Walt Disney and Warner Bros Discovery is likely to expire without a new deal on Monday, CNBC reported on Thursday. NBA will be able to eng...
14h ago
Alec Baldwin's criminal case hinges on a Wild West revolver
By Andrew Hay TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) - A Colt .45 "Peacemaker" revolver, a symbol of the American Wild West, is at the center of actor Alec Baldwin's fight to avoid criminal prosecution for the 2021 fatal shooting of "Rust" cinematographer Haly...
23h ago
Concord Chorus to buy music investor Hipgnosis Songs Fund for $1.4 billion
(Reuters) - Concord Chorus, a music and theatrical rights firm, has agreed to acquire British music investor Hipgnosis Songs Fund for $1.40 billion, the companies said on Thursday. Shareholders of Hipgnosis Songs will get $1.16 apiece in cash, repr...
Apr 18, 2024