PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Election history was made in South Dakota Tuesday as votes were cast in the state's first runoff election for the Governor's office. Thousands of people registered to vote in the Republican Primary between Larry Rhoden and Toby Doeden, many of them Democrats wanting to play a role in the decis...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Fire and Rescue quickly put down a pair of house fires yesterday. Crews found smoke coming from the windows of a home in the 2600 Block of Kierra Court in southwest Sioux Falls at about 8 yesterday morning. Smoke was also coming from a home in the 800 block of North Sherman A...

BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's Board of Regents has approved new bachelors, masters and doctoral degree programs in Artificial Intelligence for Dakota State and South Dakota State Universities. Board President Jeff partridge says the programs will prepare students to lead in developing AI technology. SDSU...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- One person is dead after his vehicle went into the Missouri River near the Oahe Dam. Anglers witnessed a vehicle entering the river near the powerhouse at about 7:15 Monday morning. Divers located the vehicle and removed the lone male occupant. Life saving measures were not successful. At t...

SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA (KELO.com) -- Inmates joined cleanup efforts in Harrisburg and Hartford Tuesday following weekend storms. Corrections Secretary Nick Lamb says they'll be available as long as they're needed. Earlier this month, inmates worked over 27-hundred hours helping clean up Highmore and Huron which were ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Fire and Rescue quickly put down a pair of house fires yesterday. Crews found smoke coming from the windows of a home in the 2600 Block of Kierra Court in southwest Sioux Falls at about 8 yesterday morning. Smoke was also coming from a home in the 800 block of North Sherman A...

BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's Board of Regents has approved new bachelors, masters and doctoral degree programs in Artificial Intelligence for Dakota State and South Dakota State Universities. Board President Jeff partridge says the programs will prepare students to lead in developing AI technology. SDSU...

SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA (KELO.com) -- Inmates joined cleanup efforts in Harrisburg and Hartford Tuesday following weekend storms. Corrections Secretary Nick Lamb says they'll be available as long as they're needed. Earlier this month, inmates worked over 27-hundred hours helping clean up Highmore and Huron which were ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Christine Erickson has only been Mayor of Sioux Falls a little over a week, and already, she has enticed a world-renowned visitor to the city. Mr. Monopoly joined the Mayor and Experience Sioux Falls officials at Falls Park Tuesday morning to announce a new twist on an old board game - Mo...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are investigating the deaths of two 80-year old residents that happened Saturday morning. They answered a call for a stabbing and gunshot wound shortly after 8am, finding a deceased woman. They also found an 80-year old man with serious injuries, who died at a hospital...

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.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Election history was made in South Dakota Tuesday as votes were cast in the state's first runoff election for the Governor's office. Thousands of people registered to vote in the Republican Primary between Larry Rhoden and Toby Doeden, many of them Democrats wanting to play a role in the decis...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- One person is dead after his vehicle went into the Missouri River near the Oahe Dam. Anglers witnessed a vehicle entering the river near the powerhouse at about 7:15 Monday morning. Divers located the vehicle and removed the lone male occupant. Life saving measures were not successful. At t...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- It's primary runoff election eve, and South Dakota Republicans are still waiting to hear Aberdeen Businessman Toby Doeden's choice for a running mate. The Dakota Scout reports four are on the short list. They are: former State House Speaker Steve Haugaard, Rapid City legislator Taffy Howard, ...

RAPID CITY, SD (KELO.com) -- Western South Dakota is breaking some records residents would like to avoid. The Rapid City airport reached 112 degrees Sunday, breaking the previous record of 111 set in 2006. Triple digits will be scattered across the region again for Monday. Younger adults are encouraged to check on e...

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- A record $50-million price tag for 'Gus the T-Rex' of South Dakota is expected to draw more fossil hunters. The money is being split between those that excavated the fossil and the landowners where Gus was found. Experts estimate it took 25-thousand hours of labor to uncover the remains and five...

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