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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.)
New 5-story project announced for downtown Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Another major development for downtown Sioux Falls. This time, it's a 95-million dollar project that will include a five-story mixed-use building on Eighth Street, with t...
Jun 05, 2024
Pipeline opponent among newcomers headed to legislature
HARTFORD, SD (KELO.com) -- Opposition to the Carbon Capture pipeline motivated Joy Hohn to run for the legislature this year. She won the primary, capturing 74-percent of the vote in District 9, which...
Jun 05, 2024
Absentee ballots challenged in Minnehaha County over residency requirements
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Minnehaha County Auditor's office has its hands full. 165 absentee ballots were successfully challenged because of residency questions. Those ballots came from voters...
Jun 05, 2024 Chris Phan / CC
Primary election turnout appears to be light
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- From all appearances, it looks like voter turnout for today's primary elections will be disappointing. A spokesman in the Minnehaha County Auditor's office says poll work...
Jun 04, 2024
Dakota Scout may become Sioux Falls' legal newspaper
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Argus Leader has been in publication for over 140 years, but its days of being the city's legal newspaper could be numbered. The city's operations committ...
Jun 04, 2024
16 year old shot during early Monday robbery attempt
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A 16 year old Sioux Falls boy is hospitalized after being shot while being robbed early Monday morning. Police information officer Sam Clemens says he went to meet someon...
Jun 03, 2024 Sioux Falls Police Briefing graphic.
Avera Research awarded grant to reduce infant mortality
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's an all-out effort to reduce infant mortality in South Dakota. The Avera Research Institute has received a five-year, 5.4-million dollar grant through the Healthy Sta...
May 31, 2024
Schwan's Sioux Falls presence growing
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It was already billed as the largest Asian food production facility in North America. Now, it's going to be even larger. In 2021, Governor Kristi Noem announced the large...
May 31, 2024 South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem; photo by Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch.
Cause of Mitchell fire still unknown - but suspicious
MITCHELL, SD (KELO.com) -- Six months later, and Mitchell Fire Department officials are still looking for the cause of a fire that destroyed the Perkins restaurant. So far, none of the material they'v...
May 30, 2024
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