SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a plan that's been three years in the making - and it replaces a plan that was developed 30 years ago. The Sioux Falls Parks and Rec department is revealing new plans for the park that showcases the namesake of the city. This morning, as a leadup to a public open house on the plan t...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It appears as though major construction on another section of Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls will have to wait a year. Nine-million dollars cut from an Aquatics bond was intended to repay the city's reserve fund for the purchase price of the Sanford Wellness Center on Tea/Ellis Road. P...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Higher interest rates and inflation are taking some of the luster out of the Sioux Falls economy - and the city budget. City councilors are pulling in the reins on spending because of declining sales tax revenues. One of the areas of concern is new construction. City Finance Director Sh...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- He was considered armed and dangerous, but the long arm of the law has brought in the second suspect in a deadly Sioux Falls shooting. 28-year old Lamont Burks, Junior was arrested in South Carolina Tuesday afternoon. He faces several charges, including first degree murder in the late Au...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A two vehicle/Pedestrian accident sent five people to the hospital this morning, two in serious condition. Two vehicles collided at the intersection of 41st and Sertoma, shortly after 8:00 am Tuesday, then struck a pedestrian standing at the corner. The crash is still under investigation...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A change at the top of South Dakota's Republican party. State chairman John Wiik won't seek a second term. The Dakota Scout reports there are three people interested in the post. Former state House Majority Leader Lee Qualm, "Vote No on H" chair Ezra Hays, and anti-carbon pipeline ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- As expected, an election lawsuit involving both sides of the Abortion Amendment G on South Dakota's ballot has been dismissed. Both sides requested the dismissal. The suit challenged the petition signature collection process, but that became a moot point when the amendment was defeated.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- It's called the Kids Online Safety Act. Attorney General Marty Jackley and 31 of his colleagues say it's time for Congress to join the effort to protect children from harmful internet content. The measure would require platforms to automatically enable their strongest safety protections, prev...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A 20-million dollar investment is paying big dividends for the state of South Dakota, in the area of Rural Telemedicine. It's called the Telemedicine in Motion program, and the state Health Department says it has transformed emergency medical services across the state. EMS and Trauma Administ...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota just finished the first quarter of the 2025 fiscal year. The Legislature's Appropriations committee was told this afternoon revenues are down. Derek Johnson of the Bureau of Finance and Management says the budget assumed three-percent growth. The farm economy is down sharply, as ...

By Ross Kerber (Reuters) - Investors are on track to withdraw more money from global climate funds than they deposit this year for the first time, Morningstar Sustainalytics said on Thursday, presenting an obstacle to energy-transition efforts. Net...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - The latest addition to the "Star Wars" franchise introduces a new sense of playfulness into the universe by turning children into the protagonists, actor Jude Law says. "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" is an eight-epis...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans clinched a late-night deal on Wednesday that clears the way for votes on a group of President Joe Biden's nominees for federal trial courts in exchange for not pushing forward with f...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Thursday she will chair a U.S. House of Representatives panel on government efficiency, working with billionaire Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in their effort to streamline the U.S. g...

By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Snap on Thursday filed a motion to dismiss a New Mexico lawsuit that alleged the tech company enabled child sexual exploitation on its messaging app Snapchat, arguing there were inaccuracies to the state's investigation. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it was allowing U.S. flights to resume to six airports in northern Haiti. On Nov. 12, the FAA said it was barring U.S. airlines from operating in Haiti for 30 days after th...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's foreign minister met with the French ambasssador to the nation on Thursday over what the ministry branded as "unfriendly and inappropriate" comments from French President Emmanuel Macron as he left the G20 summit ...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen has introduced legislation seeking to halt American weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates until the United States certifies that the UAE is not arming the paramilitary Ra...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's first round of elections of judges by popular vote, the product of a contentious constitutional overhaul passed in September, could be pushed back by around three months if the Senate accepts a request by the electo...

By Mike Stone, Humeyra Pamuk and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden dropped his opposition to Ukraine firing U.S. missiles at targets deep inside Russia in response to North Korea's entry to the war, a shift in U.S. policy ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Are you ready for some football? One local entrepreneur is ready, too! Sioux Falls native Gio Oromo is mixing his love of sports history with his business mind. Oromo, a Senior Marketing major at USD has opened his business "Cosy Thrifts". He specializes in sports merchandise l...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Augustana University's hockey team is getting a one-year jump on conference membership. Central Collegiate Hockey Association Commissioner Don Lucia says Augie's support of its hockey program is impressive, and allowing them to compete in the regular season and conference championship is ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Ryan Zimmerman carried a perfect game into the eighth inning on Wednesday and Josh Rehwaldt drove in four as the Canaries topped Gary SouthShore 9-1 at the Bird Cage Wednesday night. Rehwaldt belted a 429-foot homerun in the sixth inning to open the scoring and added a two-run double in t...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Canaries are riding a three-game win streak after beating the Lincoln Saltdogs 6-to-2. Josh Rehwaldt smacked a 475-foot homer and Trevor Achenbach drove in two runs. It was also Mike Meyer's 300th career win as Canaries manager. The number one Canaries will continue thei...

LONGWOOD, FL (KELO.com) -- It's do or die for the Augustana University softball squad in the NCAA Division Two National Finals. They dropped a two-to-one decision to second-seeded University of Texas, Tyler yesterday in extra innings. The Vikings have a chance to pull it together with a day off today in the double-el...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese firms are squirreling away even more dollars, pricing contracts in yuan and opening import lines to mitigate currency risks as trade tensions threaten to roil foreign exchange rates. The trend shows exporters are prepar...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group representing major automakers including General Motors, Toyota Motor Corp, and Volkswagen urged President-elect Donald Trump to retain key tax credits for electric vehicle purchases and take steps ...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss National Bank governing board member Petra Tschudin said on Thursday that inflation was comfortably within the range it hoped to see. Inflation in October dropped to 0.6%, its lowest level since June 2021, sto...

By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Snap on Thursday filed a motion to dismiss a New Mexico lawsuit that alleged the tech company enabled child sexual exploitation on its messaging app Snapchat, arguing there were inaccuracies to the state's investigation. ...

By Dietrich Knauth, Marie Mannes, Terje Solsvik (Reuters) -Northvolt, the Swedish maker of battery cells for electric vehicles, said on Thursday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., dealing a blow to Europe's hopes that its mo...

By Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) -Private equity-owned Medline Industries is aiming to raise more than $5 billion in its U.S. initial public offering expected to occur in 2025, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The stock market f...

By Nate Raymond and Mike Spector BOSTON (Reuters) - McKinsey & Co is in the final stages of negotiating a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve a U.S. criminal investigation into the consulting firm's work helping opioid manufacturers boost sal...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is likely to come under tighter scrutiny over vaccine development and safety testing once Donald Trump takes over as the country's president, a top official at the agency said on Thursday. Peter Mar...

By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) -U.S. pharmaceutical giant Viatris Inc. has been fined 7.58 million dirhams ($760,000) by Morocco's competition regulator for failing to notify it regarding its merger, two official sources said on Thursday. Viatris ...

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Upcoming data from a mid-stage study of Amgen's experimental weight-loss drug MariTide will shed light on how well it might measure up against the popular GLP-1 drugs sold by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. Encouraging comm...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads toward its demise in a huge explosion called a supernova - the first time the events of ...

YAKUTSK, RUSSIA (Reuters) - The sabre-toothed cat cub is almost small enough to hold in one hand, but its discovery after 32,000 years is a momentous event for palaeontologists. It was around three weeks old when it died in what is now northeastern...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip star...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every cell type in the body to better understand huma...

By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions about the impact that climate change is having on tropical storms across the globe. ...

By Anna Tong (Reuters) - The chief engineer for nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is joining nuclear fusion startup Fuse, the company said Thursday. James Owen spent over 28 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, focused on we...

(Reuters) - Online vehicle auction services provider Copart reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue on Thursday, driven by robust volumes of salvage vehicles. Increasing vehicle complexity and rising labor costs have led customers to fa...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's social media company is considering developing a cryptocurrency payment service, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Trump Media & Technology Group filed a trademark application on Mon...

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talen Energy has asked federal regulators to rehear its rejected agreement to ramp up power to an Amazon data center located on the site of Talen's Pennsylvania nuclear plant, according to a filing on Thursday....

By Jaspreet Singh (Reuters) -Intuit projected second-quarter revenue and profit below market estimates on Thursday, hampered by sluggish demand for its financial management services and a planned change in the timing of its promotions. Shares of the Mo...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - The latest addition to the "Star Wars" franchise introduces a new sense of playfulness into the universe by turning children into the protagonists, actor Jude Law says. "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" is an eight-epis...

(Reuters) - Fox Entertainment and Hulu announced on Thursday a multi-year content deal whereby the Walt Disney-controlled streaming platform will retain the streaming rights for Fox's extensive programming slate. The agreement includes an expansion...

By Eric Cox and Brad Brooks CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett, the one-time star of the TV drama "Empire", for staging a hate crime against himself in 2019. The court agree...

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Ballet fans and members of Russia's cultural elite on Thursday filed past the open casket of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg, whose life they said had en...

By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - K-pop music may be South Korea's buzziest export but the industry needlessly creates mountains of plastic in its home market by churning out CDs that most fans don't even listen to, critics say. Wha...