SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Downtown Sioux Falls is quickly changing from industrial to residential, placing a priority on peace and quiet. The city's Downtown Whistle Reduction Project gets underway with a construction project next Tuesday. The 1.6-million dollar project will improve key railroad crossings, starti...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Two area men face lengthy federal prison sentences as the U-S Attorneys Office racks up more convictions against members of a major drug ring. 50-year old Cary Ludens of Crooks was sentenced to 13 years and 3 months. Officials say he distributed about 22 pounds of meth that came from Ari...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Work has begun on a highly-anticipated addition to the Sioux Falls restaurant scene. The site of David's Bridal on 41st Street has been demolished to make way for a Raising Cane's chicken restaurant. Company officials say the Sioux Falls site is high priority. It's expected to open some...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Signs that the weed crop is thriving in Sioux Falls. The city's Code Enforcement office is receiving more property maintenance complaints than normal, even though it's early in the season. There have been 99 complaints since Monday. People with violations on their property are given six...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A new state voter registration law may be discouraging military members from voting. Amber Hobert - the head of a mail forwarding business - told Minnehaha County Commissioners that it's related to people who spend most of their time out of state, but have registered to vote in South Dako...

WASHINGTON, DC (KELO.com) -- Small and Disadvantaged South Dakota communities are getting more than nine-million dollars to help remove so-called "forever chemicals" - PFA's - from drinking water. PFA's are contaminants that can cause cancer. The agency says the funding is directed at the communities that n...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- This year's GOP Gubernatorial campaign is a big-money event. The four candidates have raised more than six and a half million dollars so far this year. Congressman Dusty Johnson's campaign accounts for more than half of that amount - $3.7-million. Businessman Toby Doeden added more than $2-m...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- More than 33-hundred people are on parole in South Dakota, and the state Corrections Commission says over 100 of them are absconders with warrants issued for their arrest. That means the parolees have lost contact with their parole officer or efforts to contact the parolee have been exhausted....

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Governor Larry Rhoden is expanding South Dakota's partnerships with ICE. More highway patrol Troopers are being enrolled in ICE training as part of the effort. Over the past year, over 650 illegal immigrants have been deported out of South Dakota because of the operation.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Governor Larry Rhoden's path to victory appears to be narrow, as illustrated by a leaked confidential memo. Northern Plains News reports the memo - marked 'confidential-donor use only' was not verified by the Rhoden campaign. The strategy is for donors to fund an effort to deny Congressman Du...

May 26 (Reuters) - State Department Counselor Michael Needham, a longtime aide to ​U.S. Secretary of State ‌Marco Rubio, has been promoted to the post of assistant to the president and deputy ‌national ​security adviser, ⁠a source familiar ⁠with the ma...

By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - Even the elections are bigger in Texas. Voters will choose their nominee for U.S. Senate on Tuesday in a race that could help decide control of the chamber and may become one of the most expensive in...

May 26 (Reuters) - Iranian hackers were responsible for a disruptive computer breach in March that forced Los Angeles' transit system to shut down parts of its network, Israeli researchers say. The saboteurs stole at least 700 gigabytes of emails, back...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, May 26 (Reuters) - Nicolas Cage says his new live-action series "Spider-Noir" will offer viewers a distinctive experience, with the option to watch it ​in black and white - "like an old movie" - or ‌in highly saturated...

By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Emma Rumney and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. FDA's new, looser regulation of new vapes and nicotine pouches will potentially unleash hundreds more such products on the market in the coming weeks and months...

LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday targeted Russian-linked cryptocurrency platforms, banks and financial networks it said were used to ​bypass sanctions, freezing their assets and barring ‌UK firms from processing payments and holding corres...

By Bharath Rajeswaran and Vivek Kumar M May 26 (Reuters) - India's position as the fifth-largest global market by capitalisation is under threat as Taiwan closes in on the South Asian nation's spot, powered largely by the rapid rise of chip-making ​maj...

MOSCOW, May 26 (Reuters) - Russian companies are ready to finance the purchase of heavier weapons and electronic systems to defend their plants from ​drone attacks, Alexander Shokhin, head of Russia's ‌most powerful business lobby, has told President V...

DAKAR, May 26 (Reuters) - Senegal's parliament elected ousted prime minister Ousmane Sonko as ​speaker on Tuesday, a ‌move that could give him a powerful platform to challenge President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Faye dismissed Sonko ‌on ​Friday and ⁠disso...

DUBLIN, May 26 (Reuters) - Ireland aims to pass a law curbing goods trade with settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank by mid-July with Israel, some U.S. lawmakers and business groups opposing the move, Foreign Minister Helen McEntee ​said on Tue...

PARIS, May 26 (Reuters) - World number one Aryna Sabalenka blazed through her opening round at ​the French Open as ‌she brushed aside Spain's Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4 6-2 on Tuesday. Sabalenka raced to a 4-0 lead on a sun-kissed ‌Court ​Philippe Chat...

May 26 (Reuters) - Highlights of the third day at the French Open on Tuesday (times GMT): 1334 AUSTRALIAN WILDCARD WALTON SHOCKS MEDVEDEV Sixth ​seed Daniil Medvedev fell at the first ‌hurdle after a surprise defeat by Australian wildcard Adam Walton, ...

By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE, May 26 (Reuters) - A coalition of environmentalists and Indigenous Australian activists camping in the city park where the main stadium for the 2032 Olympics will be built is holding firm against threats they will be forcibly r...

The Carolina Hurricanes are beginning to sound repetitive. The visiting Hurricanes won their second straight overtime game against the Montreal Canadiens on Monday evening, this time on a goal by Andrei Svechnikov at 14:06 that gave them a 3-2 win in ...

Houston pitchers Tatsuya Imai, Steven Okert and Alimber Santa combined for the majors' first no-hitter since 2024 as the Astros beat the Texas Rangers 9-0 on Monday in Arlington, Texas. Imai (2-2) walked four batters and struck out two over a career-h...

By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI, May 26 (Reuters) - China's booming pharmaceutical industry is not being impacted by Beijing's tightening scrutiny over ​deals involving sensitive technologies, the CEO ‌of JW Therapeutics said Tuesday. Global drugmakers are s...

May 26 (Reuters) - Gas engine manufacturer Innio said on Tuesday it was targeting a valuation of up to $20.25 billion in a ​U.S. initial public offering, as it looks ‌to tap investor appetite for companies powering the AI boom. Munich, Germany-based In...

By Shadia Nasralla May 26 (Reuters) - BP has ousted Chair Albert Manifold with immediate effect, it said on Tuesday, citing governance oversight and conduct issues, only months after his appointment to ​help oversee a strategy revamp. BP has been rocke...

May 26 (Reuters) - Private equity-backed government contractor Applied Aerospace & Defense is targeting a valuation of up to $3.59 billion in its ​U.S. initial public offering, as defense ‌firms tap into strong investor appetite for the sector driven b...

May 26 (Reuters) - Spotify said on Tuesday it is rolling out narrated articles from top publications including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety and Vanity Fair ​for its audiobook users, as the platform diversifies its ‌content. The Swedish s...

May 26 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly said on Tuesday it will buy three vaccine developers in deals worth up to nearly $4 billion in combined value, signaling its push into infectious disease ​prevention. The U.S. drugmaker said it had agreed to acquire Curevo,...

By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who turns 80 next month, will undergo his routine annual physical on Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, following a year of public attention on apparently ...

By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Emma Rumney and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. FDA's new, looser regulation of new vapes and nicotine pouches will potentially unleash hundreds more such products on the market in the coming weeks and months...

MADRID, May 25 (Reuters) - A Spanish national in quarantine in a Madrid military hospital, ​who is among those ‌evacuated from a cruise ship earlier this month, has tested positive of hantavirus, Spain's Health Ministry said ‌on ​Monday. It is the ⁠sec...

By Gradel Muyisa , Fiston Mahamba and Aaron Ross BUNIA, May 25 (Reuters) - Doctors operating on the front lines of the fight against Ebola in Congo, already grappling with shortages of basic supplies, are now also having to deal with attacks on their ...

By Laurie Chen JIUQUAN, China, May 24 (Reuters) - China sent three astronauts to its space station on Sunday, one of whom will stay for a year, a record length for the country, enabling the study of long-duration human physiology in space as Beijing wo...

(This May 23 story has been repeated with no changes to the text) By Marta Serafinko May 23 (Reuters) - Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognizable may not survive by century's end as climate change becomes an increasingly important d...

By Steve Nesius and Steve Gorman STARBASE, Texas, May 22 (Reuters) - SpaceX completed a largely successful test flight of its next-generation Starship rocket on Friday, deploying a clutch of mock satellites and executing a controlled splashdown in the ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. company said more than two dozen healthy baby chickens have hatched from an artificial egg platform it has developed in what it calls a pivotal step in its plan to bring back the South Island Giant M...

By Suzanne McGee PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 22 (Reuters) - Space-themed exchange-traded funds are blasting off, with asset managers rushing to issue new products ahead of the much-anticipated IPO by industry giant SpaceX and investors jumping aboard...

LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday targeted Russian-linked cryptocurrency platforms, banks and financial networks it said were used to ​bypass sanctions, freezing their assets and barring ‌UK firms from processing payments and holding corres...

BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters) - Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai has not been affected by a national safety review following a robotaxi outage involving rival Baidu's Apollo Go, and is pushing ahead with expansion into more cities, its ​CEO said ...

May 26 (Reuters) - Broadcaster Tegna appointed Fox Stations veteran Patrick Paolini as CEO on Tuesday, as it attempts to resolve a court ​order blocking a $6.2 billion merger with rival ‌Nexstar. Paolini brings more than three decades of local broadcas...

By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS, May 26 (Reuters) - BNP Paribas is bolstering its cybersecurity defences in anticipation of powerful AI models exposing vulnerabilities, the French bank's chief information officer Marc Camus said. European banks have voiced c...

By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, May 26 (Reuters) - The proposed sale of Dutch cloud ​services provider Solvinity to ‌U.S. software company Kyndryl will be blocked under a law designed to curb foreign control over telecoms services, ‌a ​Dutch gover...

May 26 (Reuters) - Spotify said on Tuesday it is rolling out narrated articles from top publications including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety and Vanity Fair ​for its audiobook users, as the platform diversifies its ‌content. The Swedish s...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, May 26 (Reuters) - Nicolas Cage says his new live-action series "Spider-Noir" will offer viewers a distinctive experience, with the option to watch it ​in black and white - "like an old movie" - or ‌in highly saturated...

By William Schomberg May 25 (Reuters) - Rollins had recorded the confidently titled "Jazz Colossus" album in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt. So, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept pedestrian walkway of ...

By Lisa Richwine May 25 (Reuters) - K-pop sensations BTS, the globally popular boy band that recently returned to the world stage after military service, scored the top honor of artist of the year on Monday at the fan-voted American Music Awards in ​La...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) - Baby Yoda brought crowds to movie theaters over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend, putting "Star Wars" film "The Mandalorian and Grogu" on track to collect roughly $165 million around the ​globe, distributor...