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Sioux Falls School Board moves forward with plans to replace Whittier Middle School
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- "Out with the old and in with the new" will take on extra meaning for the Whittier Middle School neighborhood in Sioux Falls. The School Board voted unanimously to replac...
Jun 13, 2024 Sioux Falls School District logo.
City Council adopts new routes for SAM Transit system
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- For the first time since 2005, Sioux Area Metro Transit has new routes in Sioux Falls. City Councilors unanimously approved those new routes last night. The new plan come...
Jun 12, 2024 Photo Courtesy: VIA
Sioux Falls City Councilors to consider expansion of SAM Transit
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls City Councilors will consider a proposed expansion of the Sioux Area Metro-or SAM-transit system tonight. The plan includes adding citywide "SAM on Demand" on...
Jun 11, 2024 Photo Courtesy: VIA
Sioux Falls construction numbers on the rise
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Some hopeful signs on the construction front in Sioux Falls. Housing starts are nearly double what they were a year ago. Now, Building Permit Chief Butch Warrington says ...
Jun 10, 2024 Great Valley Center / CC
Police release details of triple homicide in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The suspect in a triple homicide in Sioux Falls over the weekend is making his first court appearance Monday morning. 30-year old Justin Rackley faces three counts of fir...
Jun 10, 2024 Sioux Falls Police cruiser. KELO.com News file photo.
Three dead, two injured in early morning Sioux Falls shooting
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A suspected triple homicide in Sioux Falls. On Saturday morning at about 2:45 Police were sent to the area of S. Drexel Drive and W. 58th Street for a disturbance. Poli...
Jun 08, 2024 Jonah Green / CC
Mexican drug dealers sentenced to decades in prison
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- It will be decades in prison for two Mexican drug dealers. Mario Castro Covarrubias, 37, and Melecio Rodriguez Medina, 39, were sentenced this week to 20 and 27 years i...
Jun 08, 2024 PRSA-NY / CC
Southeast Tech grants 164 full ride scholarships
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- It's a big investment in South Dakota's future. Southeast Technical College has awarded 164 full-ride Build Dakota Scholarships for the next academic year. The scholars...
Jun 08, 2024
Number of scams doubles in one year
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's all a numbers game, and you have to stay on the top of your game to avoid becoming a victim. Jessie Schmidt of the Better Business Bureau says phishing scams nearly ...
Jun 07, 2024 Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos / CC
Move to put Freddie Mac back in 2nd mortgage business worrisome
WASHINGTON, DC (KELO.com) -- You could call it "trouble on the home front." The Biden Administration is moving ahead with a plan to allow Freddie Mac to guarantee Second Mortgage loans to homeowners. ...
Jun 07, 2024 Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)
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