SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The proposed move of Smithfield Foods from The Falls to the Foundation Park development park on the city's northwestern edge goes back before the City Council this week. The Council will consider approval of a Tax Increment Financing District - or TIF - and a Conditional Use Permit for th...

DEUEL COUNTY, SD (KELO.com) -- The company that wanted to build a large data center in Deuel County is changing directions. Applied Digital was counting on significant tax breaks to encourage building the proposed data center. The Legislature denied efforts to allow tax incentives for the centers. Now the company sa...

LINCOLN COUNTY, SD (KELO.com) -- Rural Lincoln County residents find themselves in an all too familiar position. They've fought plans for a new prison, CO2 pipelines and wind turbines. Now they're facing a proposed large dairy operation. MiKota Holdings, LLC of Michigan wants to build a 62-hundred head dairy operat...

CUSTER, SD (KELO.com) -- Firefighters are making progress on a major wildfire near Custer. They battled the Qury blaze throughout the weekend, and had it 22 percent contained as of Sunday night. Over 100 residents were evacuated to a shelter in Custer on Friday. The fire's cause is being investigated.

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- Lt. Governor Tony Venhuizen is leading a South Dakota Trade Delegation to Japan and South Korea this week. Ag and Natural Resources Secretary Hunter Roberts is among those in the delegation. He says the state's trade efforts are opening doors around the world, "They're very receptive to Sou...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The proposed move of Smithfield Foods from The Falls to the Foundation Park development park on the city's northwestern edge goes back before the City Council this week. The Council will consider approval of a Tax Increment Financing District - or TIF - and a Conditional Use Permit for th...

DEUEL COUNTY, SD (KELO.com) -- The company that wanted to build a large data center in Deuel County is changing directions. Applied Digital was counting on significant tax breaks to encourage building the proposed data center. The Legislature denied efforts to allow tax incentives for the centers. Now the company sa...

LINCOLN COUNTY, SD (KELO.com) -- Rural Lincoln County residents find themselves in an all too familiar position. They've fought plans for a new prison, CO2 pipelines and wind turbines. Now they're facing a proposed large dairy operation. MiKota Holdings, LLC of Michigan wants to build a 62-hundred head dairy operat...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Your daily commute may be about to change, as road construction season arrives. A season-long lane closure begins Monday on the southbound lanes on I-229 at 85th street. It's part of the I-29 and 85th Street Diverging Diamon Interchange project that won't be complete until next year.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are looking for a suspect in a shooting incident that occurred early Thursday morning. Several residents near 10th and Spring, on the west side of downtown, reported hearing gunshots at about 5:30 am. Police say a man fired several shots at two victims as they entered ...

CUSTER, SD (KELO.com) -- Firefighters are making progress on a major wildfire near Custer. They battled the Qury blaze throughout the weekend, and had it 22 percent contained as of Sunday night. Over 100 residents were evacuated to a shelter in Custer on Friday. The fire's cause is being investigated.

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- Lt. Governor Tony Venhuizen is leading a South Dakota Trade Delegation to Japan and South Korea this week. Ag and Natural Resources Secretary Hunter Roberts is among those in the delegation. He says the state's trade efforts are opening doors around the world, "They're very receptive to Sou...

CUSTER, SD (KELO.com) -- Wildfires are being driven by strong winds and dry conditions in the Black Hills, with some residents being evacuated. Custer State Park was closed and residents in several areas were asked to evacuate. The Custer Armory was opened for evacuees needing shelter. The fire danger is high across...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- There was one final skirmish before lawmakers approved the budget. Senator John Carley argued that NPR and PBS programming carried by South Dakota Public Broadcasting is biased, and shouldn't be supported by the state. He said, "If South Dakota Public programming has value, let it be fun...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- If you're a South Dakota homeowner, your property tax bill should be doing down in future years. Governor Larry Rhoden signed the largest property tax cuts in state history into law, following legislative approval. Both measures use sales tax proceeds to provide property tax relief.

March 17 (Reuters) - An ​earthquake ‌of magnitude ‌6 ​struck ⁠Cuba ⁠on Tuesday, European ​Mediterranean ⁠Seismological ⁠Centre (EMSC) said. The ​quake ​had a depth ‌of ⁠15 km (9.3 miles), ⁠EMSC ‌said. (Reporting ⁠by ​Mihika ‌Sharma in ​Bengaluru; ⁠Edi...

By Mrinmay Dey March 16 (Reuters) - Three Tennessee plaintiffs, including two minors, sued Elon Musk's xAI on Monday, alleging that it knowingly designed its Grok image generator ​to let people create sexually explicit content by ‌using real photos of ...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - The Trump administration said just over 10% of Transportation Security Administration airport security officers on Sunday did not show up for work as a partial government shutdown stretches ​to 30 da...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, March 16 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday largely upheld a ruling that blocked a "sweeping and unprecedented" freeze on trillions of dollars in government financial assistance that President Donald Trump's administr...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - A Palestinian woman was released on bond from a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas after a judge's order, the last pro-Palestinian activist held under ​the Trump administration's crackdown on p...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 17 (Reuters) - ​At ‌least 23 people were killed ‌and ​108 ⁠injured in ⁠suspected triple-suicide bomb attacks in ​Maiduguri city, ⁠capital ⁠of Nigeria's ​insurgency-hit northeastern ​state of Borno, ‌the state police ⁠command s...

By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, March 17 (Reuters) - The family of a man accused of killing 15 people at a Jewish festival on Sydney's Bondi Beach last year fear for their safety after a spate of alleged vigilante attacks, a court heard on Tuesday. Naveed Akra...

MANILA, March 16 (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Monday it rejected Beijing's assertion of sovereignty over the entire South China Sea, disputing a claim by China's embassy that a Filipino diplomat had once conceded the ​disputed Scarborough Shoal ...

ISLAMABAD, March 17 (Reuters) - Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban's closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s - as a way to give Pakistan "strategic depth" in its rivalry with India. What's...

By Alexander Cornwell and Jonathan Landay March 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump accused some Western allies of ingratitude after several countries rebuffed his demand to send warships to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as Ir...

March 17 (Reuters) - U.S. private ​credit ‌firm Blue Owl pushed London-based ‌mortgage ​lender ⁠Century ⁠Capital into administration after discovering ​the UK ⁠group ⁠had dismissed ​a director ​over financial ‌discrepancies, the Financial Times ⁠report...

By Stella Qiu and Wayne Cole SYDNEY, March 17 (Reuters) - Australia's central bank raised its cash rate for a second straight month on Tuesday, saying higher borrowing costs were needed to contain inflation, though a very tight vote suggested further t...

SYDNEY, March 17 (Reuters) - Australia's central bank raised its main cash rate for ​a second straight month ‌on Tuesday, saying higher borrowing costs were needed to contain inflation, though a very tight ‌vote ​suggested further tightening ⁠would be ...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Monday said electric vehicle maker Tesla and South Korea's LG ​Energy Solution had signed a supply ‌agreement to build a $4.3 billion lithium iron phosphate (LFP) prismatic batte...

By Yantoultra Ngui and Kane Wu SINGAPORE, March 17 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase has hired Yi Zhang from Goldman Sachs as co-head of China investment banking, in the latest of a series ​of new hires to strengthen its Asia banking business, according ‌to a...

March 17 (Reuters) - Iran's football federation is in discussions with FIFA about moving their World Cup matches from the United States to Mexico due to concerns about the ​safety of their players, Iranian football president Mehdi Taj ‌said on Monday. ...

Kailer Yamamoto scored the eventual game-winning goal as the visiting Utah Mammoth doubled up the Dallas Stars 6-3 on Monday night. Clayton Keller, Nate Schmidt, Jack McBain, Michael Carcone and Lawson Crouse also scored for the Mammoth, who snapped a...

By Rory Carroll March 16 (Reuters) - A battle-tested Venezuela squad said they respect the star-studded U.S. team but have no plans of backing down in Tuesday's final after pulling off a thrilling come-from-behind ​victory to reach the World Baseball C...

San Diego Padres closer Mason Miller recorded the final three outs for Team USA in a World Baseball Classic semifinal thriller on Sunday night. Will ​he be an option if U.S. manager Mark ‌DeRosa needs a save on Tuesday night in the WBC final against V...

The Edmonton Oilers are preparing to play some stretch of games without star forward Leon Draisaitl. Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch revealed that but little else to ​reporters Monday, one day after Draisaitl exited a ‌game against the Nashville Predators...

By Sriparna Roy March 16 (Reuters) - Cannabis-based medicines have shown little evidence of effectiveness for treating most mental health and substance-use disorders, according to a large review of past studies published in a ​major medical journal on ...

March 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday blocked key parts of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s effort to reshape U.S. vaccine policy, including a move to reduce the number of shots routinely recommended for children, and revamp a federal ...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, March 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston who blocked major parts of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping moves to upend U.S. immunization policies has already drawn the ire of President Dona...

BERLIN, March 16 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Monday it had expanded its artificial intelligence computing capacity ​with more than 2,100 Nvidia ‌chips to support drug and diagnostics development. Roche said the additional hardware would s...

March 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday blocked key parts of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s effort to reshape U.S. vaccine policy, including a move to reduce the number of shots routinely recommended for children. U.S. District Judge B...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetual ocean of magma and enveloped by a noxious and fier...

By Sergio Queiroz SAO PAULO, March 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal found in ​Spain, reinforcing knowledge that land routes once connected ‌parts of South America, Africa ...

By Ali Kucukgocmen BERGAMA, Turkey, March 13 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement in a 1,900-year-old glass vial ​used to hold perfumes or elixirs, which ‌they believe is the first physical evidence that the Ro...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Bonobos for years have had the reputation of being the cool hippies of the simian world, with a "make love, not war" ethos, in contrast to their belligerent cousins, the chimpanzees. But is this reputatio...

WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - A new analysis of a large shinbone unearthed in a remote spot in northwestern New Mexico in the 1970s shows it belongs to a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that predated that huge meat-eating dinosaur by several mil...

By Mrinmay Dey March 16 (Reuters) - Three Tennessee plaintiffs, including two minors, sued Elon Musk's xAI on Monday, alleging that it knowingly designed its Grok image generator ​to let people create sexually explicit content by ‌using real photos of ...

BEIJING, March 17 (Reuters) - Alibaba Group on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence platform for enterprises targeting automation, intensifying competition in ​China's rapidly evolving AI agent market ‌following the OpenClaw craze that has gripp...

By Max A. Cherney, Stephen Nellis and Heekyong Yang SAN JOSE, California, March 16 (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said on Monday the global chip wafer shortage is likely to persist until 2030, ​as demand driven by artificial i...

By Max A. Cherney and Heekyong Yang SAN JOSE, California, March 16 (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said on Monday the global chip wafer shortage is likely to ​persist until 2030, as demand driven by artificial intelligence ‌con...

LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Monday the government would spend up to 1 billion pounds ($1.33 billion) ​on powerful quantum computers to help develop ‌the quantum sector and boost the wider economy. The new...

(Corrects headline to clarify OConnell is named chairman of entertainment TV, not the entertainment arm; corrects paragraph 4 to note ​Dana Walden is both president and chief ‌creative officer of Disney) March 16 (Reuters) - Walt Disney named insider D...

DUBLIN, March 16 (Reuters) - Born and raised in southwest Ireland's County Kerry, Oscar-winner Jessie Buckley's journey from local productions to the global stage is something her hometown of Killarney ​has followed with pride. Buckley won the best act...

By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES, March 15 (Reuters) - Warner Bros emerged as the biggest winner at the Academy Awards on Sunday, though the mood was clouded by its pending $110 billion sale to Paramount Skydance, a deal reshaping Hollywood's studio lan...

(Fixes typographical error in best editing category) By Jenna Zucker NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - The full list of Oscar winners at Sunday's 98th Academy Awards. "One Battle After Another" led with six awards, "Sinners" followed with ​four and "Frank...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, March 15 (Reuters) - Hollywood royalty took its customary memorial pause at the Oscars on Sunday to remember fallen stars of the past year, with special tributes paid to two luminaries remembered for their work on both side...