Category Archives: Local News

Watertown church heavily damaged by fire caused by lightning
WATERTOWN, SD (KELO.com) -- Cleanup and restoration work is underway at a Watertown church that caught fire following a lightning strike. The fire at Hosanna Lutheran on 14th Avenue North began around...
Tom Rooney May 20, 2025

SFSD teacher contracts coming in
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls School District is entering the home stretch of teacher contract season. Every year there are resignations as teachers move or retire. Human Resources Dir...
Tom Rooney May 14, 2025 Substitute teacher Laurie Hansen Neisen ran students through a math lesson at Creekside Elementary School in Spearfish in fall 2021. Photo by SDNW.

Car thefts declining in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls authorities say stolen car numbers are down in the city but are still warning of the everyday threat. Reports have been on the decline the last two years. How...
Tom Rooney May 14, 2025 VitalikRadko / Depositphotos.com

ICE raid in Madison - 8 arrested
MADISON, SD (KELO.com) -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is confirming raid operations took place in Madison yesterday. As a result, ICE arrested eight people at two manufacturing businesses...
Tom Rooney May 14, 2025 Madison, S.D. from Google Maps.

22-year old Sioux Falls man accused of murder in mother's shooting death
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A 22-year old Sioux Falls man is charged with murder in the shooting death of his mother early Monday morning. Nathaniel Borchert was arrested a short time after police a...
Tom Rooney May 13, 2025 gioiak2 / Depositphotos.com

Avel eCare telemedicine program helping resolve crisis cases
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota is leading the nation with a model of mental health care that reaches to remote areas that don't have care facilities. Avel eCare's Crisis Care telemedicine ...
Tom Rooney May 13, 2025 Mental health photo illustration by Adobe Stock from GDNS.

School board adjusts student cell phone use police
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Students in the Sioux Falls School District won't be allowed to use their cell phones during most of the school day for the upcoming academic year. Incoming Superintenden...
Tom Rooney May 13, 2025 mast3r / Depositphotos.com

Air medical teams in week-long blood drive competition
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a week full of high flying friendly competition for the Sioux Falls Community BLood Bank. Air medical teams from Avera Careflight and Sanford AirMed are asking commu...
Tom Rooney May 12, 2025 Image Courtesy: Sioux Falls Community Blood Bank

Yankton stabbing suspect set free
YANKTON, SD (KELO.com) -- New evidence has led to the release of a 19-year old Yankton man accused in a December stabbing death. Theodore Kranig, Junior was charged with second degree murder and mansl...
Tom Rooney May 08, 2025 stevanovicigor / Depositphotos.com

Police standoff closes West 12th Street
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police have closed West 12th street from Hawthorne to Western Avenues, with a SWAT team, squad cars and ambulances on site. Police Information Officer Sam Cle...
Tom Rooney May 08, 2025


