SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The FBI and law enforcement from three states are working with Sioux Falls police to find answers in the disappearance and death of 14-year old McKenna Wendel of Sioux Falls. She was missing most of last week, and her body was found near Brookings last Thursday. Police Chief Jon Thum sa...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Eight years of challenges and accomplishments. Sioux Falls Mayor Paul Tenhaken has delivered his final 'State of the City' address, marking major difficulties and victories of his time in office. He says he won't be able to lead the charge as Mayor, but is excited about the opportunities...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- State funding is now in place for construction of the James Abdnor Center for Advanced Manufacturing at Southeast Technical College in Sioux Falls. Governor Rhoden has signed a bill providing six-million dollars for the center, which is being paired with federal, private and local contr...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- An autopsy was performed Monday, but so far, officials aren't naming any suspects in last week's disappearance and death of a 14-year old Sioux Falls girl. Police Chief Jon Thum says the search was intense as authorities hoped to find McKenna Wendel alive. "I can tell you, very few ...

CANTON, SD (KELO.com) -- The Lincoln County Planning & Zoning Commission has placed a hold on an application for a conditional use permit for a large dairy operation. Landowners packed this week's Commission meeting, only to hear the application has been delayed. Several residents spoke on the project, including ...

WASHINGTON, DC (KELO.com) -- Rep. Dusty Johnson says South Dakota is missing the opportunity of large scale data center development. Rather than recruiting the centers to be built in the state, current state leadership is chasing them away, while states like North Dakota are reaping the benefits of the jobs and tax re...

OMAHA, NE (KELO.com) -- The DEA is working to create a Fentanyl Free America. After round two of the operation, they're 57-million doses closer to their goal. Dustin Gillespie, the Special Agent in Charge of the Omaha DEA region, says the agency is working to dismantle cartels and their financial operations. "W...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A leaky sewer line that created a nasty mess during the legislative session is leading to a million dollar upgrade of the South Dakota Capitol building. Lawmakers pushed through a bill with $1.1-million worth of upgrades for the 116-year old building. Governor Rhoden signed the bill Thursday.

BLACK HILLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Fire crews are working to put out a new wildfire in the Black Hills - this south of Rapid City. Residents were evacuated for a time, but an evacuation order was lifted at about 8 last night. Meanwhile, over 300 people are fighting a large wildfire near Custer. That fire has now blackened...

RAPID CITY, SD (KELO.com) -- TSA workers aren't getting paid because of the partial government shutdown, so the Rapid City Regional Airport has decided to do something to help. A donation bin has been set up near baggage claim. Airport officials are asking for gift cards, nonperishable food and other supplies, with a...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has targeted U.S. cultural and historical institutions - from museums to monuments to national parks - to remove what he calls "anti-American" ideology. His declarations and exec...

SEOUL, March 25 (Reuters) - The livestream of ​Kpop ‌supergroup BTS's concert in Seoul on Saturday, ‌their ​first ⁠in more ⁠than three years, drew 18.4 million viewers ​worldwide, Netflix said ⁠on ⁠Wednesday. The broadcast ​from Seoul's ​historic Gwang...

By Jarrett Renshaw HOUSTON, March 24 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is expected to announce as soon as Wednesday that it will temporarily lift federal smog-cutting restrictions ​on summer-blend gasoline to curb rising energy prices ‌stemming from...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Charlie Javice's bid to throw out her conviction for defrauding JPMorgan Chase into buying her ​education startup Frank for $175 million, after she said ‌two law cle...

By Marcelo Teixeira NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) - Beef production is the leading driver of agriculture-linked deforestation, accounting for 40% of all forest clearing done to open space for food production, ​according to details of a study released on...

March 25 (Reuters) - The United States is negotiating with itself, an Iranian military spokesman ​said according to state ‌media on Wednesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said Tehran wants to make a deal ‌to ​end the ⁠war in the Middle ⁠Eas...

(Fixes typo in headline, no change to text) CAIRO/WASHINGTON March 25 (Reuters) - Israel struck the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, Israeli military and Iranian media said, as President Donald Trump said the U.S. was making progress in its efforts...

TAIPEI, March 25 (Reuters) - The United States has "quite a high" sense of urgency in helping Taiwan strengthen its military capabilities and is working to help speed up ​delayed weapons deliveries, the island's Defence Minister Wellington ‌Koo said on...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has targeted U.S. cultural and historical institutions - from museums to monuments to national parks - to remove what he calls "anti-American" ideology. His declarations and exec...

SYDNEY, March 25 (Reuters) - Hundreds of staff at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation began a one-day strike on Wednesday, the first walkout in 20 years, over pay and ​working conditions, disrupting live news coverage at the public ‌broadcaster. Li...

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...

VERMILLION, SD (KELO.com) -- USD football coach Travis Johansen is leaving Vermillion after one season for Rutgers in the Big 10. He guided the Coyotes to the FCS quarterfinals and a final ranking of 11th in 2025. Co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Matt Vitzthum was named head coach.

BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- The SDSU Jackrabbits will notice something missing during next fall's football season. NDSU is jumping from the FCS Missouri Valley Conference to the FBS Mountain West Conference for football. The Jacks and Bison will compete against each other in other sports in the Summit League and Big ...

Brookings, SD (KELO.com) -- Big news for South Dakota State women's volleyball! The team has been so successful that, despite their tournament loss, they've been invited to play in the NCAA tournament. The Jacks will face the Arizona Wildcats Friday at in California.

BEIJING, March 25 (Reuters) - Pop Mart International Group, the Beijing-based maker of collectible "blind box" toys - including the viral, toothy-grinned Labubu - on ​Wednesday said its 2025 revenue rose ‌185% from a year earlier and was in line with m...

March 25 (Reuters) - China has restricted two co-founders of artificial intelligence startup Manus from leaving the country as regulators review whether Meta's $2 ​billion acquisition of the firm violated ‌investment rules, the Financial Times reported...

JAKARTA, March 25 - Videogame platform Roblox will introduce content and communications controls for players under 16 in Indonesia to comply ​with the country's social media block ‌for children, Matt Kaufman, Roblox's Chief Safety Officer, said in an e...

By Mrinmay Dey and Katie Paul March 24 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms is increasing compensation for top executives, including its first-ever offer of stock options, as it tries to fend off competition in the artificial ​intelligence race and incentivize l...

SYDNEY, March 25 (Reuters) - Australian consumer prices were flat in February as prices for domestic holidays and petrol dipped, while core inflation came in a little slower than forecast, though ​a war-driven spike in oil prices has since magnified in...

March 24 (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical company Merck is nearing a roughly $6 billion all-cash deal ​to acquire biotech firm ‌Terns Pharma, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The potential acquisition ‌comes ​a...

March 24 (Reuters) - Spanish drugmaker Grifols said on Tuesday it has approved a U.S. initial public ​offering of its U.S. biopharma ‌business. Grifols, which makes drugs using blood plasma, plans to float a minority stake in the biopharma business. Th...

By Amina Niasse March 24 (Reuters) - CVS Health said on Tuesday it has reached a proposed settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission on insulin pricing. Pharmacy benefit managers, which set ​how drugs are covered by health insurance, have f...

March 24 (Reuters) - Revealing the limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial duplication triggers grave genetic mutations that accumulate over the generations and ultimately become f...

By Siddhi Mahatole March 24 (Reuters) - Shares of ImmunityBio fell 26% on Tuesday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter that said a television advertisement ​and podcast promoting the company's cancer therapy were ‌false o...

March 24 (Reuters) - Intuitive Machines said on Tuesday NASA has awarded the space startup ​a $180.4 million contract to ‌deliver seven science and technology payloads to the moon's south pole. As part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services ‌initi...

March 24 (Reuters) - Revealing the limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial duplication triggers grave genetic mutations that accumulate over the generations and ultimately become f...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - NASA announced on Tuesday it has canceled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use components from the project to build a $20 billion base on the moon's surface, while also pl...

MOSCOW, March 24 (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it had launched 16 low-orbit satellites as Moscow seeks to ​build a rival to Elon ‌Musk's Starlink network. Russia remains far behind Starlink, which since its first launch of operational satellites i...

MOSCOW, March 23 (Reuters) - An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft has a problem with an antenna so it ​will have to be manually ‌docked when it reaches the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation said in a statemen...

March 25 (Reuters) - China has restricted two co-founders of artificial intelligence startup Manus from leaving the country as regulators review whether Meta's $2 ​billion acquisition of the firm violated ‌investment rules, the Financial Times reported...

JAKARTA, March 25 - Videogame platform Roblox will introduce content and communications controls for players under 16 in Indonesia to comply ​with the country's social media block ‌for children, Matt Kaufman, Roblox's Chief Safety Officer, said in an e...

By Mrinmay Dey and Katie Paul March 24 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms is increasing compensation for top executives, including its first-ever offer of stock options, as it tries to fend off competition in the artificial ​intelligence race and incentivize l...

By Sam Tabahriti LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - Openreach has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to use artificial intelligence ​to speed up fibre broadband construction ‌and cut emissions from one of Britain's largest commercial vehicle fleets, ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Anduril and Palantir Technologies are working together to develop software for U.S. President Donald Trump's Golden Dome ​antimissile shield initiative, a source familiar ‌with the matter said on Tuesday. The $185 billion Golden Do...

SEOUL, March 25 (Reuters) - The livestream of ​Kpop ‌supergroup BTS's concert in Seoul on Saturday, ‌their ​first ⁠in more ⁠than three years, drew 18.4 million viewers ​worldwide, Netflix said ⁠on ⁠Wednesday. The broadcast ​from Seoul's ​historic Gwang...

LONDON, March 24 (Reuters) - From an array of guitars to stage-worn costumes, memorabilia from the world of heavy metal is on offer ​in Julien's Auctions upcoming "Music Icons" sale and ‌on display in London over coming weeks. Items belonging to Ace Fr...

ROME, March 24 (Reuters) - Gino Paoli, the singer‑songwriter who helped reshape Italian popular music in the 1960s with poetic, introspective ​songs such as "Il cielo in una ‌stanza" (The sky in a room) and "Sapore di sale" (The taste of salt) has died...

March 24 (Reuters) - A Shakira concert due ​to ‌take place in Doha on April 1 ‌has ​been ⁠postponed due ⁠to the "current regional situation," Visit Qatar said ​in a social ⁠media ⁠post on ​Tuesday. Abu Dhabi's ​Offlimits Music Festival, ‌which was due ...

By Angie Teo and Ann Wang TAIPEI, March 24 (Reuters) - Taiwan Mandopop star Jay Chou will release his first album in nearly four years this week, unveiling on Tuesday its ​lead single accompanied by a music video in which ‌he battles a vampire. Chou's ...