Category Archives: Local News
77-million dollar aquatic bond on hold
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a 77-million dollar package that will affect recreational opportunities in Sioux Falls for decades, but it will have to wait. City finance director Shawn Pritchett s...
May 8, 2024 A Sioux Falls swimming pool. Photo from the Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Department.
Safer firefighting foam from new soybean product
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The latest product from the humble soybean is boasting big benefits for the environment, farmers and firefighters. Cross Plains Solutions has created SoyFoam, which is an...
May 7, 2024 wattpublishing / CC
Fentanyl Awareness Day: "You only get one chance"
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by fentanyl. Angela Kennecke's daughter Emily was among those victims six years ago. Following her daughter's death, Kenn...
May 7, 2024 Jeff Anderson / CC
Importance of cyber security growing
MADISON, SD (KELO.com) -- It isn't a new issue, but it's becoming more important by the day. Data privacy and security was the focus of a Round Table discussion at Dakota State University, hosted by S...
May 6, 2024
DWU students get hands on experience in generating economic report
MITCHELL, SD (KELO.com) -- A new economic report is giving Dakota Wesleyan University students a valuable life experience. The students helped develop a new economic report that will be valuable to ec...
May 6, 2024 Mike Cohen / CC
Sioux Falls woman targeted by scam
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It started with a pop-up that said her computer had a problem. It ended with 58-thousand dollars lost to scam artists. The Sioux Falls woman was told she was accused of m...
May 6, 2024 Sioux Falls Police daily briefing graphic.
Officers justified in shooting suspect
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley says Sioux Falls police officers were justified in shooting a man last month. Police were trying to serve a mental health detention warrant...
May 3, 2024 KELO.com News photo by Ray Crockett.
Higher education opportunity for former prisoners
BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- You could consider it a second chance powered by higher education. South Dakota State University was awarded a three-year, 150-thousand dollar grant by the Mellon foundatio...
Apr 30, 2024 SDSU logo.
Witness gives his account of deadly accident
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are still working on the investigation into the deadly weekend crash that killed two teenagers, and probably will be working on it for several weeks. I...
Apr 30, 2024 Fatal accident graphic.
Two teens die in tragic crash
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It was the most catastrophic accident he's seen in 17 years of police work. Sioux Falls Police Lieutenant Andrew Siebenborn arrived shortly after a deadly crash that kill...
Apr 30, 2024 Sioux Falls Police cruiser door. KELO.com News file photo.
