CANTON, S.D. (KELO.com) - Lincoln County Commissioner Joel Arends is going to take another run at a moratorium on Data Centers. His proposal is on track to pull the city of Sioux Falls into the discussion. Commissioner Arends posted on social media that he'll make the proposal at a joint meeting next week with the Siou...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - Sioux Falls Mayor Christine Erickson says things are going well through her one month as mayor. She provided an update on her tenure on Wednesday, saying that most of her focus has been on the 2027 city budget. Her $794 million budget proposal calls for a focus on the three main component...

BRANDON, S.D. (KELO.com) - The Hoversten Orchard is opening up for apple picking season. Owner David Hoversten says four different apples are ready for picking, including Sunrise, Zestar, Red Free and Premier Honeycrisp. He says it's important to get out and pick the fruit early because the summer heat and lack of rain...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- There were no injuries in an early morning house fire in northern Sioux Falls this morning. Flames were venting from an attached garage when Sioux Falls fire and Rescue arrived in the 3600 block of North 8th Avenue just before three this morning. They helped evacuate a resident, and dous...

CANTON, S.D. (KELO.com) - Lincoln County Commissioner Joel Arends is going to take another run at a moratorium on Data Centers. His proposal is on track to pull the city of Sioux Falls into the discussion. Commissioner Arends posted on social media that he'll make the proposal at a joint meeting next week with the Siou...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - Sioux Falls Mayor Christine Erickson says things are going well through her one month as mayor. She provided an update on her tenure on Wednesday, saying that most of her focus has been on the 2027 city budget. Her $794 million budget proposal calls for a focus on the three main component...

BRANDON, S.D. (KELO.com) - The Hoversten Orchard is opening up for apple picking season. Owner David Hoversten says four different apples are ready for picking, including Sunrise, Zestar, Red Free and Premier Honeycrisp. He says it's important to get out and pick the fruit early because the summer heat and lack of rain...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- There were no injuries in an early morning house fire in northern Sioux Falls this morning. Flames were venting from an attached garage when Sioux Falls fire and Rescue arrived in the 3600 block of North 8th Avenue just before three this morning. They helped evacuate a resident, and dous...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls City Council is partnering with the University of South Dakota Dental Hygiene Program. The council approved a plan unanimously after a hearing on Tuesday night. The school will transition its current operation to the Falls Community Health Dental Clinic as part of the dea...

BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- The SDSU Jackrabbits are the football team to beat in the powerful Missouri Valley Conference this season. Coach Dan Jackson calls it a great honor, but he says preseason polls don't define the season. The Jacks won the conference in 2023 and 2024 when they were ranked number one in the pr...

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.

VERMILLION, SD (KELO.com) -- One final honor for the 2026 USD Coyotes softball squad. They were ranked #19 in the final poll of the Softball America top-25 poll - their first time to make the list. The 'Yotes also made it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever.

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, 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 ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Today, Governor Larry Rhoden ordered that flags be flown at half-staff at the State Capitol from sunrise until sunset on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, in honor of former state legislator Stanford M. Adelstein. He served in the South Dakota House of Representatives from 2001-2004 and the South Dak...

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Aug 20 (Reuters) - An ​earthquake ‌of magnitude 5.9 ‌struck ​the ⁠Flores region ⁠in Indonesia, the European-Mediterranean ​Seismological ⁠Centre (EMSC) ⁠said ​on Thursday. The ​quake was ‌at a depth ⁠of 10 km (6.21 ⁠mile), ‌EMSC ⁠said. (Reporting ​by ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Education Department has issued guidance urging schools to stop what it calls "racial balancing" in student discipline policies, prompting concerns that the Trump ​administration is making it harder to address lo...