Category Archives: Local News
Counting begins in data center petition drive
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls City Clerk's office is busy counting. Petitions were turned in late yesterday, calling for a public vote on zoning changes for a proposed hyper scale data...
Jan 30, 2026 Olivier26 / Depositphotos.com
School Board taking applications for Whittier task force
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Whittier Middle School in Sioux Falls has housed students for over a century, but its days are numbered. School District officials are gearing up to replace it. The Board...
Jan 27, 2026
Everyone safe after vehicle goes through ice at Lake Brant
LAKE BRANT, SD (KELO.com) --Two fishermen and a first responder are recovering after going through the ice on Lake Brant Saturday night. Two men broke through the ice while driving a side-by-side acro...
Jan 26, 2026 GrB / Depositphotos.com
Fatal Minnesota shooting spawns weekend protest in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Over two hundred people participated in a rally in Sioux Falls for a Minnesota man shot and killed by Border Patrol agents in the Twin Cities over the weekend. Homeland S...
Jan 26, 2026
Mayoral candidate says his opinion is shifting on hyper-scale data centers
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls opponents are circulating petitions against zoning changes for a proposed hyper-scale data center on the northeastern edge of the city. Mayoral Candidate Jami...
Jan 26, 2026 Rep. Jamie Smith (D-Sioux Falls). LRC photo.
Suspect arrested, victim ID'd in homicide
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are still working on an assault case we told you about last week. Early Friday morning 35-year old Hunter Blackfeather was found on the ground bleeding...
Jan 26, 2026 fergregory / Depositphotos.com
Experience Sioux Falls wins Mickelson Award at tourism conference
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Experience Sioux Falls wins the 2026 George S. Mickelson Award at the Governor's Conference on Tourism. The award has been given annually since 1992. It honors businesses...
Jan 23, 2026
10 year old boy returns home safely
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It was an all out community-wide effort to save a boy's life, and police are grateful. With dangerously cold weather moving into the region Thursday, Sioux Falls police k...
Jan 23, 2026
10 year old boy missing in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police have issued a missing child alert. 10 year old Joel Takenalive was last seen wearing an orange shirt and red & white shoes in the 700 block of Sout...
Jan 22, 2026
Sioux Falls home hit by early morning gun fire
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are looking for a suspect who fired several shots into a home on the city's southwest side early Friday morning. They received calls from several resid...
Jan 16, 2026 Sioux Falls Police cruiser door. KELO.com News file photo.
