Category Archives: Local News
Pipeline opponent among newcomers headed to legislature
HARTFORD, SD (KELO.com) -- Opposition to the Carbon Capture pipeline motivated Joy Hohn to run for the legislature this year. She won the primary, capturing 74-percent of the vote in District 9, which...
Jun 5, 2024
Absentee ballots challenged in Minnehaha County over residency requirements
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Minnehaha County Auditor's office has its hands full. 165 absentee ballots were successfully challenged because of residency questions. Those ballots came from voters...
Jun 5, 2024 Chris Phan / CC
Primary election turnout appears to be light
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- From all appearances, it looks like voter turnout for today's primary elections will be disappointing. A spokesman in the Minnehaha County Auditor's office says poll work...
Jun 4, 2024
Dakota Scout may become Sioux Falls' legal newspaper
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Argus Leader has been in publication for over 140 years, but its days of being the city's legal newspaper could be numbered. The city's operations committ...
Jun 4, 2024
16 year old shot during early Monday robbery attempt
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A 16 year old Sioux Falls boy is hospitalized after being shot while being robbed early Monday morning. Police information officer Sam Clemens says he went to meet someon...
Jun 3, 2024 Sioux Falls Police Briefing graphic.
Avera Research awarded grant to reduce infant mortality
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's an all-out effort to reduce infant mortality in South Dakota. The Avera Research Institute has received a five-year, 5.4-million dollar grant through the Healthy Sta...
May 31, 2024
Schwan's Sioux Falls presence growing
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It was already billed as the largest Asian food production facility in North America. Now, it's going to be even larger. In 2021, Governor Kristi Noem announced the large...
May 31, 2024 South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem; photo by Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch.
Cause of Mitchell fire still unknown - but suspicious
MITCHELL, SD (KELO.com) -- Six months later, and Mitchell Fire Department officials are still looking for the cause of a fire that destroyed the Perkins restaurant. So far, none of the material they'v...
May 30, 2024
SETC announces new President
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- He says it's like coming home. Dr. Cory Clasemann will become the next President of Southeast Technical College in Sioux Falls. Claseman grew up in Windom, Minnesota. He ...
May 30, 2024
Sioux Falls School District opts out of property tax freeze
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls School Board is opting out of the State property tax freeze, just like it has every year since the early 2000's. It was a unanimous vote at last night's S...
May 29, 2024
