MITCHELL, SD (KELO.com) -- A record-setting patriotic display with a quarter-million Idaho potatoes at a Mitchell grocery store. County Fair food Store manager Justin Luther says the best part is being able to give most of the potatoes away. Susanne Gale of Feeding South Dakota says the donation will help a lot of pe...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A 63 year old Sioux Falls man faces five years in Federal Prison for money laundering. Gregory Henderson was convicted in December of moving money on behalf of a drug trafficking organization that operated between California and South Dakota. U-S Attorney Ron Parsons says that organizati...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- "No Kings" rallies were held in several locations across South Dakota Saturday, ranging in size from a few hundred in Aberdeen to a few thousand in Sioux Falls. Backers say the theme was intentionally left open, to encourage participants to focus on the issue that drove them the...

VERMILLION, SD (KELO.com) -- The USD Coyote women were on fire Thursday night, so it's on to the 'Great 8' of the Women's National Invitational Tournament. The Coyotes jumped out to a 14-0 lead over Pepperdine - all of those points scored by Patience Williams. They'll host Montana State Sunday afternoon at the Sanfor...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls School officials are planning on two-million dollars in budget cuts for the upcoming year. A preliminary 360-million dollar budget was presented to the school board this week. Classroom staff reductions are part of the cuts.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota Recipients of 'Temporary Assistance for Needy Families' will see a five percent bump in their benefits. That follows action by the Legislature's Appropriations Committee Monday. The federal share of the money will come from carryover funds.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota lawmakers made quick work of their remaining duties, and closed out the 2026 legislative session Monday. Lawmakers came up short in efforts to override two vetoes issued by Governor Rhoden. One bill would have required licenses for non-medical home care services. The other would...

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- A new study shows South Dakota gains a new citizen every 1 hour and 15 minutes on average due to tax policy. That ranks 18th in the nation according to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. Conversely, California loses one taxpayer every minute.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Vietnam Veterans will hear the words they should have heard decades ago - "Welcome Home," according to Jeremiah Scheider, Secretary of the South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs. His agency and Governor Larry Rhoden are proclaiming this Sunday as "Welcome Home Vietnam Vete...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Help is coming in at least one area of school spending. Governor Rhoden says he'll sign a bill to have the state cover the cost of Reduced Price meals in the school nutrition program. The move will help lower income families, and reimburse schools for unpaid meal account balances.

TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - An earthquake ​of ‌magnitude 5 hit the ‌greater ​Tokyo ⁠region, authorities ⁠said on Wednesday, shaking buildings in ​the capital, ⁠but ⁠prompting ​no tsunami ​warning. The epicentre in ‌the Ibaraki region was ⁠50 km (31 mile...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - A three-judge panel in Wisconsin on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit from Democratic voters that had challenged the ​state's congressional map. The panel said in its ruling ‌that only the Wisconsin Supreme ...

By Nate Raymond March 31 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday declined to approve a Trump administration-crafted settlement that would have allowed churches and other houses of worship to endorse political candidates to their congregations without ri...

By Kalea Hall and David Shepardson NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - Republican Senator Bernie Moreno said on Tuesday he will introduce legislation next month to toughen a U.S. government ban on Chinese automakers from entering the American market, and en...

March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is temporarily pausing plans ​to use large warehouses ‌to detain immigrants, a Trump administration official and a second source familiar with the matter said, ‌as ​its new secretary, ⁠Markw...

April 1 (Reuters) - An Iranian drone attack struck fuel ​tanks at Kuwait ‌International Airport on Wednesday, sparking a massive fire but causing ‌no ​casualties, Kuwait's ⁠state news agency ⁠KUNA said. The latest of several attacks on the airport ​and...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said there will have to be a transition phase in Venezuela and the country ​will need free and fair elections, though he added ‌that there needs to be pat...

By Kanishka Singh and Ismail Shakil WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday Washington could see the "finish line" in the Iran war, which is now in its fifth week, ​and the U.S. will have to reexamine ties w...

BUENOS AIRES, March 31 (Reuters) - Argentina has designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist ​organization, its presidential office said ‌in a statement on Tuesday, following a push from the Trump administration for allies...

By Harold Isaac and Sarah Morland PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 31 (Reuters) - Armed men mounted further attacks in Haiti's breadbasket Artibonite region on Tuesday, days after a gang's weekend assault in the area of Jean-Denis left some 70 people dead, accord...

VERMILLION, SD (KELO.com) -- The USD Coyote women were on fire Thursday night, so it's on to the 'Great 8' of the Women's National Invitational Tournament. The Coyotes jumped out to a 14-0 lead over Pepperdine - all of those points scored by Patience Williams. They'll host Montana State Sunday afternoon at the Sanfor...

VERMILLION, SD (KELO.com) -- The USD Coyote women's basketball squad is on the national stage, facing Pepperdine in the Super 16 in the Women's National Invitational Tournament Thursday night. The Coyotes are led by guard combo Angelina Robles and Molly Joyce in USD's seventh WNIT run. The Coyotes won the WNIT in 201...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sanford Pentagon will host the state's first-ever WNBA game next month. The Phoenix Mercury, coached by Sioux Falls native Nate Tibbetts, will take on the Chicago Sky April 25th. The Mercury will also host a youth basketball clinic at the Pentagon April 24th.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's official. March Madness has arrived in Sioux Falls with the Summit League men's and women's basketball championships. The first game is Wednesday night, featuring ORU and Kansas City. The city is going all out, creating 'Summit League Central' at Jacobson Plaza at The Falls, free p...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Youth Hockey Association girls varsity team will host a "Grey-Out" Game vs Aberdeen on Sunday, February 15 at Scheels Iceplex to honor former standout goaltender and Brandon native, Riley Vander Esch, as she battles diffuse midline glioma, a very rare and aggress...

By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, April 1 (Reuters) - Stocks and bonds rallied and the dollar wallowed at the start of the Asian trading session on Wednesday on hopes of a de-escalation in the Iran conflict, while significantly better-than-expected ec...

March 31 (Reuters) - Sequoia Capital has named former senior steward Doug Leone as chairman, partners at the storied Silicon Valley venture ​capital firm said in X posts ‌on Tuesday. (Reporting by Fabiola Arámburo in Mexico City, Angela Christy in Beng...

By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - The dollar was largely steady on Wednesday, with gains from safe-haven demand fading, as U.S. President Donald Trump said the war with Iran could wind down within weeks, though conflicting signals on the c...

SEOUL, April 1 (Reuters) - South Korea's factory activity expanded at the strongest pace in more ​than four years in March, ‌led by semiconductor demand and new product launches, even as the Middle East war dragged on overseas orders, ‌a ​private-secto...

By Colleen Howe BEIJING, April 1 (Reuters) - Oil prices ticked up in early Wednesday trade, with Brent front-month futures extending a record March rally as Middle East volatility kept markets jittery, despite reports that the U.S. and Iran may ​be edg...

April 1 (Reuters) - UK's drug cost-effectiveness watchdog has recommended Novo Nordisk's Wegovy to reduce the risk of serious heart problems or strokes in obese or overweight adults, becoming the ​first GLP-1 drug to be endorsed for this use. With ‌the...

By Christy Santhosh March 31 (Reuters) - Activist investor Pineal Capital Management has urged sweeping changes at Teladoc Health, calling for cost cuts and a potential breakup of the telehealth ​provider to unlock shareholder value. In an open letter ...

March 31 (Reuters) - The American Heart Association's new nutrition guidance, released on Tuesday, emphasized a dietary pattern rich in vegetables, fruits and whole grains, prioritizing plant-based protein ​over meat. It also suggested limiting the use...

By Puyaan Singh March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it has identified cases of liver injury in patients taking Amgen's drug for a ​group of rare autoimmune diseases and urged healthcare ‌providers to discontinue t...

March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving toward allowing compounding pharmacies to produce more ​than a dozen injectable peptides that ‌were banned because of potentially significant safety risks, the New York Times reported...

By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, March 31 (Reuters) - Amazon's Leo satellite internet unit signed a deal with Delta Air Lines to provide in-flight Wi-Fi on 500 of the airline's planes starting in 2028, inking its second major partnership in the skies a...

By Gianluca Lo Nostro PARIS, March 31 (Reuters) - Eutelsat, Europe's main rival to Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink, is in talks with India's space agency about future satellite launches as it seeks to diversify beyond SpaceX and Europe...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - Chinese satellite maker GalaxySpace has begun the so-called tutoring process for a potential initial public offering, state media ​reported on Tuesday, the latest private space firm ‌to take steps towar...

March 30 (Reuters) - SpaceX's Starlink said one of its satellites had an anomaly on-orbit on Sunday, leading to a loss of ​communications with the spacecraft at roughly ‌560 km (347.97 miles) above Earth, though the event does not pose a risk to key mi...

By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, March 30 (Reuters) - NASA is preparing to launch the first crew of astronauts toward the moon in over 53 years with its second Artemis mission, a critical test flight in humanity's broader lunar goals as the U....

By Aditya Soni and Akash Sriram April 1 (Reuters) - In early 1976 in California, Steve Wozniak had just completed the design of a computer circuit board he intended to share with fellow hobbyists at a prominent local club. His friend Steve Jobs also sa...

March 31 (Reuters) - Microsoft, Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 have entered into an exclusivity agreement for power generation and ​supply, the three companies said on ‌Tuesday. Technology companies, including Microsoft, are rushing to secure...

SYDNEY, April 1 (Reuters) - Anthropic said on Wednesday it would sign an agreement to share its economic index data with ​the Australian government to help track ‌artificial intelligence adoption across the economy, and its impact on workers and jobs. ...

March 31 (Reuters) - AT&T has reached a deal to invest about $1 billion to improve ​the Commerce Department's FirstNet ‌and deliver $1 billion in cost savings for the program via reduced rates, a U.S government agency said on ‌Tuesday. The ​telecommuni...

March 31 (Reuters) - Social media platform X was back up ​after a brief ‌outage that impacted thousands of users in the U.S. on Tuesday, ‌according ​to Downdetector.com. There ⁠were 562 reports ⁠of issues with Elon Musk-owned X as of 5:03 p.m. ​ET, dow...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, March 31 (Reuters) - Icelandic-Chinese jazz singer-songwriter Laufey says her mission is simple: get young people to fall in love with jazz. "It's literally all I care ​about as an artist - having people...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, March 31 (Reuters) - American actor Jon Hamm said Season 2 of the Apple TV+ dark comedy "Your Friends and Neighbors" will focus on the consequences ​facing his character after beginning a life of ‌crime in Season 1. "S...

PARIS, March 30 (Reuters) - Canadian singer Celine Dion announced on Monday, her birthday, that she will return to the stage this fall with 10 concerts scheduled in Paris, ​spread out over September and October. The much‑anticipated announcement follow...

By Blake Brittain March 30 (Reuters) - Pop megastar Taylor Swift was sued by a Las Vegas performer on Monday who said Swift's latest hit album "The Life of a ​Showgirl" violates her trademark rights. Maren Wade said in the ‌complaint that marketing for...

LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - British actor and comedian Russell Brand's trial on seven charges of rape and sexual assault relating to ​six women will take place in ‌October, a London judge said on Monday. Brand, once one of Britain's most high-profile ...