PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota has the unhappy distinction of being the only state suffering from drought from border to border. The entire state is in a drought, with 42-percent of the state under severe or extreme drought. Experts say the conditions are likely to continue for at least another month.

RAPID CITY, SD (KELO.com) -- Protests over the Trump Administration's employee and budget cuts are spreading in South Dakota. A group protested outside Senator John Thune's Rapid City office yesterday. Group members say they're frustrated over failed attempts to get Senator Thune to set up a town hall to discuss the ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's Prison Project Reset is about to spring into action. Governor Larry Rhoden appointed a Prison Reset task force after the legislature voted down funding and construction of a proposed new men's prison in Lincoln County. The Task Force will tour the current Penitentiary and ...

BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- A Brookings man is charged with possessing Child Pornography and sexually exploiting a minor in connection with a 15 year old girl who went missing in North Carolina. Attorney General Marty Jackley says Mohammad Gosheh was arrested yesterday, and released on a ten-thousand dollar cash bond....

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Legislative response today to criticism from the Sioux Falls School Board. Board members unloaded on the Legislature this week, saying they were disappointed and frustrated by bills they felt targeted education. Sioux Falls Representative Bethany Soye says this year's tight budget was a ...

BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- A Brookings man is charged with possessing Child Pornography and sexually exploiting a minor in connection with a 15 year old girl who went missing in North Carolina. Attorney General Marty Jackley says Mohammad Gosheh was arrested yesterday, and released on a ten-thousand dollar cash bond....

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Legislative response today to criticism from the Sioux Falls School Board. Board members unloaded on the Legislature this week, saying they were disappointed and frustrated by bills they felt targeted education. Sioux Falls Representative Bethany Soye says this year's tight budget was a ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Several Sioux Falls city departments will be changing locations in the future. The city hopes to break ground on a project at 60th and Sycamore this spring. The Light, Traffic and Power divisions will move to the new building when it's complete.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- When it's complete, it will be the largest intersection in the state of South Dakota - but it will take two years to build. Construction begins tomorrow of the intersection at Arrowhead and Veterans Parkways on the east side of Sioux Falls. Traffic flow will be cut off east of the inters...

MINNEHAHA COUNTY, SD (KELO.com) -- The Minnehaha County Commission took action this morning to issue a burn ban for rural parts of the county. Fire agencies have been called extinguish numerous grass fires this month as drought conditions grow worse. The burn ban will stay in effect until there' significant rainfall,...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota has the unhappy distinction of being the only state suffering from drought from border to border. The entire state is in a drought, with 42-percent of the state under severe or extreme drought. Experts say the conditions are likely to continue for at least another month.

RAPID CITY, SD (KELO.com) -- Protests over the Trump Administration's employee and budget cuts are spreading in South Dakota. A group protested outside Senator John Thune's Rapid City office yesterday. Group members say they're frustrated over failed attempts to get Senator Thune to set up a town hall to discuss the ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's Prison Project Reset is about to spring into action. Governor Larry Rhoden appointed a Prison Reset task force after the legislature voted down funding and construction of a proposed new men's prison in Lincoln County. The Task Force will tour the current Penitentiary and ...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Bird flu is taking a heavy toll on South Dakota poultry farms. The state ranks second in the nation for outbreaks according to a report by South Dakota News Watch. More than six-million birds have died or been destroyed due to the outbreak. State health officials say the bird flu is also lik...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota lawmakers are waiting to hear what Governor Larry Rhoden has in mind to provide property tax relief. Legislators passed a bill this year to limit property valuation assessments over the next five years, but admit that doesn't reduce property taxes. Republican Representative Karla...

(Reuters) - The Democratic Party on Monday asked a U.S. court to block Republican President Donald Trump's executive order overhauling the election system, arguing the changes risked denying eligible U.S. citizens the right to vote. In a lawsuit ag...

By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering employees financial incentives to leave the agency this month, according to a Monday evening email sent to staff and shared with Reuters. Trump in a February 26 executive or...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A group of Democratic-led states on Tuesday sued Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to challenge its cancellation of $11 billion in federal grants the states were allocated during the COVID-19 pandemic. A...

By Leah Douglas and Marisa Taylor (Reuters) -The Trump administration fired staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, as it embarked on its plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the Department of H...

HAMBURG (Reuters) -Low water levels after recent dry weather are preventing cargo vessels from sailing fully loaded on the Rhine river in Germany with surcharges added to the usual freight rates, commodity traders said on Tuesday. Low water is hamperin...

(Reuters) - The Democratic Party on Monday asked a U.S. court to block Republican President Donald Trump's executive order overhauling the election system, arguing the changes risked denying eligible U.S. citizens the right to vote. In a lawsuit ag...

(Reuters) - A major rebel alliance in Myanmar on Tuesday declared a unilateral ceasefire in its conflict with the ruling military to support an international humanitarian response to last week's devastating earthquake. The Three Brotherhood Allianc...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration erroneously deported a man it alleges is a gang member in Maryland back to El Salvador as part of its March 15 deportation flights despite a judge's ruling prohibiting his removal, according to a cour...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Ukrainian man who is suspected of having wounded five people during a stabbing rampage in Amsterdam last week is seen to have had a terrorist intent, Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenho...

By Mert Ozkan and Emilie Madi ANKARA (Reuters) - A new generation of young Turks is at the forefront of mass protests against President Tayyip Erdogan's government, demanding change in a country they see as increasingly authoritarian. Demonstration...

(Reuters) - Ford Motor reported a 1.3% drop in first-quarter U.S. sales on Tuesday, hit by the discontinuation of some models and the timing of certain rental fleet sales. The Detroit automaker's overall sales fell to 501,291 units in the three mon...

By Suzanne McGee (Reuters) - U.S. investors poured a record $10.6 billion into exchange-traded funds focused on European stocks in the first quarter, seven times the inflows recorded a year earlier, according to data from BlackRock. As U.S. Preside...

By Fergal Smith TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian manufacturing activity contracted at a steeper rate in March as a widening global trade war triggered the sharpest decline in new orders since shortly after the start of the COVID-19 crisis. The S&P Glob...

By Nicholas P. Brown and Helen Reid NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Nike could soon face another blow in its effort to revive its brand and reverse a long decline in sales: U.S. tariffs on imports from Vietnam. On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump...

By Akash Sriram (Reuters) - The frenzy to create Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT's image-generation tool led to a record surge in users for OpenAI's chatbot last week, straining its servers and temporarily limiting the feature's usage. The viral ...

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newcomers UCLA will face titans UConn in the Final Four while Dawn Staley's South Carolina Gamecocks are hoping to spoil Texas' best March Madness run in more than 20 years as the women's collegiate competition r...

(Reuters) -Lionel Messi's bodyguard Yassine Cheuko has been banned from protecting the Argentine forward from the touchline during Inter Miami matches. The former Navy SEAL gained widespread recognition after social media videos showed him closely watc...

By Nathan Frandino OAKLAND (Reuters) - The Golden State Valkyries hope to build on a blockbuster year for the WNBA in their debut season, with the newest expansion team hitting the court amid the league's surge in popularity. The Valkyries will tip...

Aaron Nesmith scored a team-high 24 points, helping the Indiana Pacers rally to a 111-109 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Monday in Indianapolis. Obi Toppin added 19 points and seven rebounds off the bench for Indiana (44-31), which won its sevent...

Casey DeSmith made 35 saves to help the visiting Dallas Stars win their sixth game in a row, a 3-1 decision against the Seattle Kraken on Monday night. DeSmith, the No. 2 goalie for Dallas behind Jake Oettinger, stretched his point streak to nine games...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A group of Democratic-led states on Tuesday sued Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to challenge its cancellation of $11 billion in federal grants the states were allocated during the COVID-19 pandemic. A...

MILAN (Reuters) -Italian drugmaker Angelini Pharma is keen on M&A, even after its offer to buy bigger rival Recordati fell through despite having the support of potential financial partners, its Chief Executive Sergio Marullo di Condojanni said on Tues...

By Leah Douglas and Marisa Taylor (Reuters) -The Trump administration fired staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, as it embarked on its plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the Department of H...

By Maggie Fick and Michael Erman LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Drugmakers are lobbying U.S. President Donald Trump to phase in tariffs on imported pharmaceutical products in hopes of reducing the sting from the charges and to allow time to shift manufactu...

(Reuters) -Bayer said on Tuesday it was preparing market launches this year of two new drugs that could each have annual peak sales of at least $1 billion, as it seeks to strengthen its pharmaceuticals business amid a high debt burden. In a statement, ...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and family time, while resuming work with Boeing to test the capsule that stranded them on t...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday was set to launch a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled befo...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin said on Monday it is targeting "late spring" for the second launch of its giant New Glenn rocket, as the U.S. FAA closed an investigation into the rocket's landing failure that followed an ...

ROME (Reuters) -Italy is pressing ahead with a plan to set up its own low-orbit satellite constellation, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday. The dual use constellation - for civil and military uses - will be made up of over 100 satelli...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said it closed out a review into SpaceX's explosive Starship test flight in January, while another investigation into the rocket's subsequent testing explosi...

By Akash Sriram (Reuters) - The frenzy to create Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT's image-generation tool led to a record surge in users for OpenAI's chatbot last week, straining its servers and temporarily limiting the feature's usage. The viral ...

By Zaheer Kachwala (Reuters) - Roblox on Tuesday launched a new format of video advertising on its gaming platform and announced a partnership with Google to help boost the growth of its nascent ad business. Gamers can choose to watch video adverti...

(Reuters) -U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm said on Tuesday it was considering making an offer to acquire UK-based Alphawave, sending shares of the British company surging. Alphawave, a supplier of semiconductor intellectual property, has also garnered acquisit...

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cerebras Systems, a Silicon Valley-based AI chip company, and Canadian chip startup Ranovus said on Tuesday that they had been awarded a $45 million contract from the U.S. military to speed up connections...

By Kane Wu and Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Luxshare Precision Industry, maker of Apple AirPods, is considering a Hong Kong listing this year, three people familiar with the matter said, adding to a recent run of mainland China-liste...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Pictures said its big-screen story about The Beatles will be told through four films released in April 2028, each from the perspective of one of the Fab Four. Director Sam Mendes also revealed the cast for the films on ...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar winner and former Bond villain Rami Malek plays an unlikely action hero in the espionage thriller "The Amateur". The movie is based on Robert Littell's 1981 book and film of the same name. The 2025 remake s...

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday planned to sign an executive order aimed at protecting fans from "exploitative ticket scalping" and reforming the U.S. live entertainment ticketing industry, according to a White H...

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday met the creators of "Adolescence", the Netflix drama about a boy charged over the killing of a female classmate which has sparked a national conversation about the impact of social media o...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean actor Kim Soo-hyun on Monday denied allegations that he dated the actress Kim Sae-ron when she was underage, breaking down in tears as he said he could not "admit what is not true." Brands including Prada have cut tie...