PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A change at the top of South Dakota's Republican party. State chairman John Wiik won't seek a second term. The Dakota Scout reports there are three people interested in the post. Former state House Majority Leader Lee Qualm, "Vote No on H" chair Ezra Hays, and anti-carbon pipeline ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a plan that's been three years in the making - and it replaces a plan that was developed 30 years ago. The Sioux Falls Parks and Rec department is revealing new plans for the park that showcases the namesake of the city. This morning, as a leadup to a public open house on the plan t...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It appears as though major construction on another section of Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls will have to wait a year. Nine-million dollars cut from an Aquatics bond was intended to repay the city's reserve fund for the purchase price of the Sanford Wellness Center on Tea/Ellis Road. P...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Higher interest rates and inflation are taking some of the luster out of the Sioux Falls economy - and the city budget. City councilors are pulling in the reins on spending because of declining sales tax revenues. One of the areas of concern is new construction. City Finance Director Sh...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- He was considered armed and dangerous, but the long arm of the law has brought in the second suspect in a deadly Sioux Falls shooting. 28-year old Lamont Burks, Junior was arrested in South Carolina Tuesday afternoon. He faces several charges, including first degree murder in the late Au...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a plan that's been three years in the making - and it replaces a plan that was developed 30 years ago. The Sioux Falls Parks and Rec department is revealing new plans for the park that showcases the namesake of the city. This morning, as a leadup to a public open house on the plan t...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It appears as though major construction on another section of Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls will have to wait a year. Nine-million dollars cut from an Aquatics bond was intended to repay the city's reserve fund for the purchase price of the Sanford Wellness Center on Tea/Ellis Road. P...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Higher interest rates and inflation are taking some of the luster out of the Sioux Falls economy - and the city budget. City councilors are pulling in the reins on spending because of declining sales tax revenues. One of the areas of concern is new construction. City Finance Director Sh...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- He was considered armed and dangerous, but the long arm of the law has brought in the second suspect in a deadly Sioux Falls shooting. 28-year old Lamont Burks, Junior was arrested in South Carolina Tuesday afternoon. He faces several charges, including first degree murder in the late Au...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A two vehicle/Pedestrian accident sent five people to the hospital this morning, two in serious condition. Two vehicles collided at the intersection of 41st and Sertoma, shortly after 8:00 am Tuesday, then struck a pedestrian standing at the corner. The crash is still under investigation...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A change at the top of South Dakota's Republican party. State chairman John Wiik won't seek a second term. The Dakota Scout reports there are three people interested in the post. Former state House Majority Leader Lee Qualm, "Vote No on H" chair Ezra Hays, and anti-carbon pipeline ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- As expected, an election lawsuit involving both sides of the Abortion Amendment G on South Dakota's ballot has been dismissed. Both sides requested the dismissal. The suit challenged the petition signature collection process, but that became a moot point when the amendment was defeated.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- It's called the Kids Online Safety Act. Attorney General Marty Jackley and 31 of his colleagues say it's time for Congress to join the effort to protect children from harmful internet content. The measure would require platforms to automatically enable their strongest safety protections, prev...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A 20-million dollar investment is paying big dividends for the state of South Dakota, in the area of Rural Telemedicine. It's called the Telemedicine in Motion program, and the state Health Department says it has transformed emergency medical services across the state. EMS and Trauma Administ...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota just finished the first quarter of the 2025 fiscal year. The Legislature's Appropriations committee was told this afternoon revenues are down. Derek Johnson of the Bureau of Finance and Management says the budget assumed three-percent growth. The farm economy is down sharply, as ...

(Reuters) -Democratic Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania on Thursday conceded the final outstanding Senate race of the 2024 U.S. election to his Republican opponent, widening the majority for President-elect Donald Trump's party in the upper chamber of ...

(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to be Attorney General of the United States, moving swiftly to replace former nominee Matt Gaetz after the embattled former congressman wi...

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman filed a sexual assault complaint in 2017 against Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to take charge of the Pentagon, according to a California police report. Hegseth, a ...

By Ross Kerber (Reuters) - Investors are on track to withdraw more money from global climate funds than they deposit this year for the first time, Morningstar Sustainalytics said on Thursday, presenting an obstacle to energy-transition efforts. Net...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - The latest addition to the "Star Wars" franchise introduces a new sense of playfulness into the universe by turning children into the protagonists, actor Jude Law says. "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" is an eight-epis...

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes that Russia fired a never-before-fielded intermediate-range ballistic missile on Thursday in its attack on Ukraine, an escalation that analysts say could have implicat...

(Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament has postponed a sitting due to have taken place on Friday out of security concerns, public broadcaster Suspilne reported on Thursday, quoting sources. "On 22nd November, plans called for a session of the Verkhovna R...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping made a short visit to Morocco on Thursday, according to state news agency MAP. Xi was welcomed in Casablanca by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan and the visit reflected the strong bonds of friendship, cooper...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's presidential office said on Friday that President Lai Ching-te will visit Taiwan's Pacific island nation allies. The office will hold a news conference on Friday morning about the trip, it said without giving further det...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, has criticised Australia's proposed law to ban social media for children under 16 and fine social media platforms of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for companies f...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Finance Minister said on Thursday that government will freeze $860 million in 2024 spending and maintain its yearly primary deficit goal, adding that a fiscal package with budget cuts for the next years could be announ...

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Luana Maria Benedito BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government has blasted French retailer Carrefour after its CEO vowed to keep South American meat off its shelves in France in solidarity with farmers, calling the comment...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's core inflation in October held above the central bank's 2% target and an index stripping away the effect of fuel accelerated, data showed on Friday, keeping pressure on the central bank to raise its still-low in...

(Reuters) - Boeing said on Thursday it has secured a $2.38 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to build 15 additional KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tankers under the Lot 11 procurement. Boeing now has 168 KC-46A tankers on contract globally....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration plans to convene a corrective action review board in the coming weeks to consider safety concerns about engines on Boeing 737 MAX airplanes after two bird strike incidents on Southwest Airl...

The Pittsburgh Steelers take on what is typically an unenviable task -- traveling on a short week for a Thursday night primetime game. However, a few things are playing in Pittsburgh's favor as Week 12 of the NFL regular season kicks off. Namely, the ...

The Washington Capitals will be without their captain and goal-scoring machine Alex Ovechkin for four to six weeks after he was diagnosed Thursday with a fractured left fibula. Ovechkin, 39, exited Monday's 6-2 win over the Utah Hockey Club with 14:30...

Quarterback Sam Darnold kickstarted the Vikings' offense on Thursday as he has most of the 2024 season, and plans to play Sunday in a meaningful NFC North road game at Chicago. Darnold returned to practice after being listed as a limited participant o...

Current No. 3 quarterback Daniel Jones lined up as a scout team safety in Thursday's practice in the surest sign to date that he's done with the New York Giants. Jones read a prepared statement, saying he wanted to make sure he clearly shared the word...

"Prince" Lucas Bahdi has signed with Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions after fighting on the undercard of Paul's main event against Mike Tyson last week. Bahdi, a 30-year-old lightweight out of Canada, improved his record to 18-0 with 15 knockouts ...

By Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) -Private equity-owned Medline Industries is aiming to raise more than $5 billion in its U.S. initial public offering expected to occur in 2025, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The stock market f...

By Nate Raymond and Mike Spector BOSTON (Reuters) - McKinsey & Co is in the final stages of negotiating a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve a U.S. criminal investigation into the consulting firm's work helping opioid manufacturers boost sal...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is likely to come under tighter scrutiny over vaccine development and safety testing once Donald Trump takes over as the country's president, a top official at the agency said on Thursday. Peter Mar...

By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) -U.S. pharmaceutical giant Viatris Inc. has been fined 7.58 million dirhams ($760,000) by Morocco's competition regulator for failing to notify it regarding its merger, two official sources said on Thursday. Viatris ...

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Upcoming data from a mid-stage study of Amgen's experimental weight-loss drug MariTide will shed light on how well it might measure up against the popular GLP-1 drugs sold by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. Encouraging comm...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads toward its demise in a huge explosion called a supernova - the first time the events of ...

YAKUTSK, RUSSIA (Reuters) - The sabre-toothed cat cub is almost small enough to hold in one hand, but its discovery after 32,000 years is a momentous event for palaeontologists. It was around three weeks old when it died in what is now northeastern...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip star...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every cell type in the body to better understand huma...

By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions about the impact that climate change is having on tropical storms across the globe. ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, has criticised Australia's proposed law to ban social media for children under 16 and fine social media platforms of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for companies f...

By Anna Tong (Reuters) - The chief engineer for nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is joining nuclear fusion startup Fuse, the company said Thursday. James Owen spent over 28 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, focused on we...

(Reuters) - Online vehicle auction services provider Copart reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue on Thursday, driven by robust volumes of salvage vehicles. Increasing vehicle complexity and rising labor costs have led customers to fa...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's social media company is considering developing a cryptocurrency payment service, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Trump Media & Technology Group filed a trademark application on Mon...

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talen Energy has asked federal regulators to rehear its rejected agreement to ramp up power to an Amazon data center located on the site of Talen's Pennsylvania nuclear plant, according to a filing on Thursday....

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - The latest addition to the "Star Wars" franchise introduces a new sense of playfulness into the universe by turning children into the protagonists, actor Jude Law says. "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" is an eight-epis...

(Reuters) - Fox Entertainment and Hulu announced on Thursday a multi-year content deal whereby the Walt Disney-controlled streaming platform will retain the streaming rights for Fox's extensive programming slate. The agreement includes an expansion...

By Eric Cox and Brad Brooks CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett, the one-time star of the TV drama "Empire", for staging a hate crime against himself in 2019. The court agree...

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Ballet fans and members of Russia's cultural elite on Thursday filed past the open casket of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg, whose life they said had en...

By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - K-pop music may be South Korea's buzziest export but the industry needlessly creates mountains of plastic in its home market by churning out CDs that most fans don't even listen to, critics say. Wha...