Category Archives: Local News
Farm state leaders asking for waiver for E-15 ethanol use
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- With gas prices headed higher, Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig is calling for a summertime waiver for E-15 Gasoline. Naig says a waiver approved last year saved driv...
Apr 27, 2023 Choices at the gas pump including ethanol or no ethanol gas are seen in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Benefit for man needing liver transplant
BRUCE, SD (KELO.com) -- He has already lived beyond doctors' expectations...and has a lot of reasons to keep going. Justin Saathoff of Bruce needs a liver transplant. Appearing on the Greg Belfrage sh...
Apr 27, 2023
$250,000 grant for "Eat Well Mobile Market" in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a quarter of a million dollar grant aimed at food deserts in Sioux Falls. The Food Deserts developed when neighborhood grocery stores closed their doors. The Sioux F...
Apr 27, 2023 Grocery story soft drink aisle. Photo by Perry Beeman/Iowa Capital Dispatch.
Potential trouble for Sanford/Fairview merger
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Trouble may be brewing for Sanford Health's proposed merger with Fairview Health of Minnesota. The Minnesota legislature is working on a proposal to give veto power to th...
Apr 26, 2023 Sanford and Fairview are looking to merge healthcare systems.
Avian flu hitting South Dakota poultry farms
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota is seeing new cases of bird flu...and more could be on the way. State producers have already destroyed hundreds of thousands of turkeys and chickens because ...
Apr 26, 2023 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade / CC
Breakthrough drugs for Alzheimer's patients
YANKTON, SD (KELO.com) -- There is new hope for Alzheimer's patients and their families. That's the result of new drugs and expanded research by the Alzheimer's Association. Leslie Morrow, Executive D...
Apr 26, 2023 Michael Havens / CC
Johnson: President won't negotiate on debt limit
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) -- There is still no agreement in Washington, and the clock is ticking on the national debt ceiling. The Treasury department says the debt ceiling needs to be raised, or th...
Apr 26, 2023 Congressman Dustry Johnson (R-S.D.)
$7.9 Million for new apprenticeship program
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's economy is booming, and about to get even hotter. The state's 1.9% unemployment rate may be the lowest ever recorded in the U.S. That makes it more difficu...
Apr 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: SHANNON STAPLETON June 07, 2022 09:32pm EDT. Reuters photo.
Nothern Lights make an appearance throughout the KELO Listening Area
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- It was quite a show last night as the northern lights made an appearance for many across the area. Three days ago, our Sun emitted a large solar flare that sent charged...
Apr 24, 2023 KELO.com News File Photo of the Northern Lights taken by Julia Kaye on 4/23/23
Volunteer fireman dies while responding to fire call
CHESTER, SD (KELO-.com) -- South Dakota firefighters are mourning the loss of one of their own. A volunteer firefighter from Lake County died Saturday after suffering a medical emergency while on scen...
Apr 24, 2023
