YANKTON, S.D. (KELO.com) - In keeping with America 250 it's Red, White and Riverboats in Yankton this weekend. The annual Riverboat Days celebration kicks off tonight with opening ceremonies at the Riverside Park Amphitheater at 6. Riverboat Days board member John Kraft says getting around to see all of the events this...

ABERDEEN, S.D. (KELO.com) - Aberdeen Mayor Travis Schaunaman's family is mourning the loss of their eight-year-old son in a paragliding accident. The mayor and his ten-year-old child were also injured, but both are expected to be ok. The family is asking for privacy and time to deal with their loss. No other details ar...

PARKER, S.D. (KELO.com) - Turner County's new courthouse is now open for business. The old courthouse was demolished a year and a half ago. The treasurer's office was busy yesterday with vehicle license plate work. Court proceedings will begin next month.

BRANDON, S.D. (KELO.com) - The new school year marks the opening of a new elementary school in the Brandon Valley School District. Burkman Valley Elementary is on Brandon's east side. The district also expanded its Middle School. Students arrive next Wednesday.

VERMILLION, S.D. (KELO.com) - USD Students have a new option for their morning cup of joe this morning. A new Dunkin' location is opening inside the Muenster Unversity Center. It marks the return of the company to South Dakota after several years absence.

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) - Attorney General Marty Jackley says an Appeals court got it right in dismissing an appeal by alleged gang members. The action opens the way for deporting suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang. Jackley was among 24 Attorneys General who enacted the Alien Enemies Act to remove violent non...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - A 50% tariff on some Canadian products is on hold for now and that's good news for South Dakota according to Senators Mike Rounds and John Thune. Thune says Canada and Mexico are the top two trading partners for the U.S. as well as for South Dakota. They're both hoping differences can be ...

GAYVILLE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Three volunteer fire departments in South Dakota are receiving $10,000 dollars in grant funding. It comes from part of the State Farm Good Neighbor Firefighter Safety Program. According to the program, roughly 82 percent of fire departments throughout the country are mostly or entirely volu...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Governor Larry Rhoden signed Executive Order 2026-10 to expand assistance to South Dakotans during this drought emergency. The order expands South Dakota Wildland Fire's assistance and resources to help rural fire departments outside the Black Hills Forest Fire Protection District. In additio...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee is crediting the Department of Health for improvements to South Dakota's medical marijuana program. Health officials report that more than 19,000 people in the state currently have access to medical marijuana through medical cards. Officials are also ...

BELGRADE, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The European Union's Civil Protection Mechanism sent helicopters and firefighters to help Serbia fight a massive wildfire in a nature reserve in the northeast of the country, the head ​of the EU mission to Belgrade said on ...

WARSAW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Romania's National Committee for Emergency Situations approved new measures to boost ​the water level of ‌the River Danube and ensure cooling of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, the government press office said on ‌Saturday...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday sought a federal probe into airport facilities for ritual washing before Islamic prayers, a move that a Muslim advocacy group called ​an "anti-Muslim political stunt....

By Kanishka Singh and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants ​from 75 countries, saying that the policy exceeded Secretary ‌o...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service published a final rule late on Friday to tighten requirements for mail-in voting ahead of the November congressional elections, despite a court order blocking the changes from ​...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Israel said it targeted a "terrorist" in southern Syria on Saturday in what Syria's foreign ministry said ​was a drone strike on a ‌civilian vehicle on the outskirts of Damascus in a "blatant" violation of its territory. The Syrian f...

By Nidhi Verma, Saurabh Sharma and Jatindra Dash Aug 22 (Reuters) - India's maritime rescue agency lost communication on Saturday with ​a Panama-flagged cargo vessel that ‌sank off the coast of eastern India, the Indian Coast Guard said. The vessel ha...

By Promit Mukherjee and Bhargav Acharya OTTAWA, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Saturday that Canada would impose tariffs starting September 8 on imports of U.S. steel, electronics and other products in retaliation for President D...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments published on Saturday that Kyiv had opened "Pandora's box" with its strikes on Russian ​economic targets, saying that Russia would hit back ‌at Ukraine's "most sensitive economic sect...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Two U.S. tanker aircraft have left Bulgaria's Bezmer air base, Bulgaria's defence minister said on ​Saturday, nearly a month after ‌their deployment in the Balkan country angered Iran. The United States, which has been at war with Ir...

MUSKEGON, MI (KELO.com) -- The Sioux falls Stampede Hockey Club go for it all Friday night. They're in Muskegon taking on the Lumberjacks in Game 3 of the Clark Cup Championship Finals. They have a 2 games to none lead in the 5-game series, and could make it a clean sweep.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Red takes on blue in South Dakota this November - and it has nothing to do with politics. The USD Coyote women's basketball team squares off against the Creighton Blue Jays at the Sanford Pentagon November 11th. Creighton has made four of the past five NCAA tournaments. USD played deep ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Webster native Logan Storley is the winner of this weekend's PFL Sioux Falls main event. He won in a unanimous decision at the Sanford Pentagon, taking his record to 19 & 4. With the win, Storley could be in the mix to be the next welterweight title challenger.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Stampede forward Cooper Soller is the 2025-26 USHL Rookie of the year. Soller played in all 62 games this season, racking up 49 points on 26 goals and 23 assists. Coach Ryan Cruthers says Soller's work ethic is unmatched. He's also one of the reasons for the team's success t...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Stampede fell to the Lincoln Stars in overtime Sunday night in the second game of their five game Clark Cup Playoff series. The game was scoreless after the first period, but Sioux Falls scored quickly in the second, capitalizing on a power play just 34 seconds in after a ...

BERLIN, Aug 23 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will urge his cabinet next week ​to accelerate reforms aimed ‌at easing the burden on businesses and reviving economic growth, the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on ‌Sunday. "At ​stake in ...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Canadian union Unifor said on Saturday it reached ​tentative agreements with ‌General Motors on behalf of 4,600 members in Ontario. Here are some details: • The ‌agreements ​cover members ⁠of the Oshawa ⁠Assembly Plant, CAMI Assembly...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Some of Nvidia's largest customers have been told prices of servers containing its AI ​chips will rise by more than ‌15% in many cases with memory chip costs soaring, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. The price hikes will go into ...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Paramount and California state officials are set to meet on Monday to discuss a potential ​settlement path of the state's lawsuit ‌aimed at stopping Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the New York Times reported on Sa...

By Giselda Vagnoni ROME, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The Vatican will build a roughly €100 million ($117 million) renewable energy plant that could power the Holy See within two years via a system combining solar power and agriculture, sources involved in discu...

Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had authorized 11 ​nicotine pouch products recently launched ‌by Philip Morris, citing lower levels of harmful constituents compared with other oral and smokeless tobacco produc...

Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Friday said they were investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli and salmonella infections linked to ​alfalfa sprouts. Here are more details: • The Food ‌and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Co...

Aug 21 (Reuters) - Scholar Rock said on Friday it withdrew its European application for the experimental spinal muscular atrophy drug and ​plans to resubmit it with a different ‌manufacturing site after issues at a Novo Nordisk-owned facility. Last yea...

PARIS, Aug 21 (Reuters) - French anti-fraud and health agencies issued a warning on Friday against tens of thousands of potentially unsafe condoms sold on the internet ​and in shops and pharmacies. The agencies recalled about ‌260,000 condoms sold in p...

Aug 21 (Reuters) - Nearly 1.9 million children in Somalia are expected to be malnourished this year, with the country seeing a ​32% jump in the number of children ‌admitted to facilities with severe acute malnutrition and complications, UNICEF said on ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The moon is, to put it mildly, an inhospitable place for people and other living organisms from Earth, with its lack of breathable air, extreme temperatures and exposure to relentless space radiation and en...

By Ethan Wang, Shi Bu and Ryan Woo BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - China is poised to launch Chang'e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in permanently shadowed craters near the moon's south p...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memo to help drastically increase the number of U.S. commercial space launches, including directing government agencies to look at federal land for new ...

By Will Dunham Aug 20 (Reuters) - In the Middle Ages, narwhal tusks were sold as unicorn horns blessed with magical powers such as neutralizing poisons and curing diseases - prized possessions of monarchs and nobles worth more than their weight in gold...

SANTIAGO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - As thousands more satellites enter orbit, astronomers may face mounting difficulties in observing the cosmos, according to a study by the European Southern Observatory, which ​operates telescopes in northern Chile. The ESO ...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Some of Nvidia's largest customers have been told prices of servers containing its AI ​chips will rise by more than ‌15% in many cases with memory chip costs soaring, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. The price hikes will go into ...

BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - It's been called the Robot Olympics. But unlike the human Olympics, Team China is collecting almost all the medals. Over the past decade, robotic competitions in China have provided a window into the advances of a now-surgin...

Aug 21 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for ​developers by more than 20% for ‌the next three months, as the ChatGPT maker faces growing competition from Anthropic and Chinese AI models. Here a...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance on Friday agreed to a $400-million settlement to resolve the U.S. Justice Department's allegations the short-video app violated children's ​online privac...

By Amy-Jo Crowley, David French and Milana Vinn LONDON/NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Vista Equity Partners is weighing a potential sale of Allvue Systems, in a deal that could value the provider of data and ​analytics for asset managers and credit inves...

LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Meghan, the wife of Britain's Prince Harry, may be returning to acting with a ​role in the Netflix series "The Gentlemen," ‌according to media reports on Friday. The Hollywood Reporter said the duchess was in advanced talks t...

Aug 20 (Reuters) - Prime Video said on Thursday it plans to invest more than $2 billion in Latin America between ​2027 and 2030, as it expands ‌its original programming and sports offerings across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Chile. Here are...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected a request by Disney on Thursday for an urgent hearing on its lawsuit seeking to block the Federal Communications Commission's early review ​of licenses for the entertainment gian...

LONDON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Cinema operators in Britain are introducing policies to prohibit or ​restrict camera-enabled smart glasses, including ‌Meta's AI-powered eyewear, the UK Cinema Association said on Thursday, citing privacy and film piracy conc...

By Blake Brittain Aug 19 (Reuters) - Christian metal band Demon Hunter has sued Netflix and concert promoter AEG Presents in California federal court, alleging an upcoming concert tour based on the streaming platform's "KPop Demon Hunters" infringes ​i...