SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to increase fees, but the move isn't expected to affect many local residents. The fees in question are for requests for public information from commercial companies for private commercial use - most of them from out of state. C...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls law enforcement unveils the "Blue Envelope Program" - designed to help drivers with disabilities communicate during traffic stops. The initiative is intended to help autistic individuals and those with communication difficulties interact with law enforcement. Office...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Hot Summer nights is returning to downtown Sioux Falls next Wednesday. America 250 and the 55th anniversary of the Black Hills Corvette Classic inspired the return. Sioux Falls Corvette Club members expect over 400 Corvettes from 35 states to participate.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A three-member recount board was back at work Thursday, trying to determine the winner of the runoff election for Mayor of Sioux Falls. More than 31-thousand election day votes are being reviewed, and some say that could be completed sometime Thursday evening. Even if it is, litigation i...

YANKTON, SD (KELO.com) -- 45 years in prison for producing Child Pornography. 34 year old Robert Barbetti of Yankton pleaded guilty to the charges in April. Cyber tips between 2018 and 2023 led to his arrest after using online social media platforms to target children and coercing them into producing explicit materia...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Discretionary parole is on the decline in South Dakota. The Board of pardons and Paroles says it has been reduced by 17-percent in the last two years. It's dropping at an even sharper rate now, following the shooting of a Sioux Falls Police Officer in April by an inmate on parole supervision....

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota has reached a $15-million settlement with Roblox, an immersive gaming and creation platform. It will protect children from online threats and enhance the state's educational system, with millions of dollars going to public and non-profit after-s...

NEW YORK CITY, NY (KELO.com) -- A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found on a western South Dakota ranch in 2021 goes up for auction in New York next week. Nicknamed Gus, it's one of the most complete T-rex skeletons ever found, and could bring $30-million - the highest price ever for a dinosaur fossil. You can find more on ...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota will receive over $400-thousand as part of a $45-million settlement with Block, Inc. Attorney General Marty Jackley says the company misled consumers about the safety of Cash App, and failed to protect users from fraud. Jackley said Block, Inc. told Cash App users their money was...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- State Senator Tom Pischke is pleading not guilty to election fraud charges. He was in court Tuesday to submit the plea following accusations that 16 candidate forms he submitted appeared to be forged. An affidavit shows 13 people told investigators they never signed the forms. Three oth...

July 26 (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and five others, including a 2-year-old child, were ​wounded on Sunday in a ‌shooting at a downtown Seattle food festival, local news outlets reported, with the U.S. city's mayor's office saying a sus...

By Manuel Ausloos and David Latona BORDEAUX/MADRID, July 26 (Reuters) - Wildfires advanced towards the outskirts of the historic French city of Bordeaux, at the heart of the country's winelands, on Sunday as France and Spain battled blazes that have al...

By Manuel Ausloos BORDEAUX, France, July 26 (Reuters) - Firefighters battled to control wildfires threatening the French city of Bordeaux on Sunday, while authorities evacuated ​increasing numbers of people from its suburbs. The southwestern ‌French re...

By Danielle Broadway San Diego, July 25 (Reuters) - Marvel Studios returned to San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday to unveil a slate of upcoming projects, such as "Ghost Rider," starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy, and "Black Panther 3." Set f...

HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) - Typhoon Noul will bring heavy to torrential rain across much of southern China for the next two days, authorities said, after sweeping ​through Guangdong province and neighbouring Hong Kong with gale-force ‌winds followin...

SYDNEY, July 27 (Reuters) - An Australian court on Monday rejected an appeal from right-wing leader Pauline Hanson to overturn a ruling that she racially discriminated against a Muslim senator by telling ​her to "piss off back to Pakistan". The three-j...

BORDEAUX, July 27 (Reuters) - Firefighters battled throughout the night and into Monday morning to tackle huge wildfires threatening the French city ​of Bordeaux. About 220,000 people have been evacuated ‌in France, while in neighbouring Spain more tha...

SEOUL, July 27 (Reuters) - A South Korean court ​on Monday ‌sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 18 months ‌in ​prison, ⁠suspended for ⁠three years, after finding him guilty of violating the ​election law by making ⁠false ⁠statements during his ...

HONG KONG, July 27 (Reuters) - China evacuated stranded tourists from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Jiuzhaigou on Monday after mudslides triggered by heavy rain, state broadcaster CCTV reported, as authorities issued the ​highest flash-flood alert ...

(Corrects to add Reuters to the dateline with no changes to the text) July 27 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military has sharply escalated attacks on civilians since a new administration took office in the war-torn country, a conflict monitor said on Monday, e...

The Denver Nuggets are matching the Oklahoma City Thunder's two-year, $12 million offer sheet on forward Spencer Jones ​ahead of Sunday night's deadline, ‌ESPN reported. The Thunder had offered Jones, a restricted free agent, the fully-guaranteed cont...

The Detroit Lions will be without starting safeties Brian Branch and Kerby Joseph when training camp begins, as they were placed on the physically unable to perform list on Sunday. The Lions also placed ​veteran tight end Tyler Conklin -- signed as a ...

The Chicago White Sox acquired right-hander Jose Urquidy from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday ​in exchange for minor league ‌pitcher Felix Doroteo. Pittsburgh designated Urquidy for assignment Friday after he struggled during a brief five-game stint ...

Manny Machado and Jackson Merrill homered in the four-run eighth inning to help the visiting San Diego Padres rally for a 5-3 win on Sunday and extend the Miami Marlins' losing streak to a franchise-record 12 straight games. Machado also had an RBI do...

Max Scherzer will celebrate his 42nd birthday by returning to the Toronto Blue Jays' rotation against one of his former teams. Manager John Schneider announced Sunday that Scherzer will ​come off the injured list to start Monday's series ‌opener again...

By Dominique Patton and Lisa Jucca PARIS, July 27 (Reuters) - As luxury groups grapple with weak fashion sales and a hit to spending from the Middle East conflict, investors are increasingly focused on one question: who sells enough jewels? The answer ...

By Pranoy Krishna BENGALURU, July 27 (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India will keep its key interest rate unchanged at 5.25% in August and for the rest of the year, according to a Reuters poll of economists, as it assesses the impact of the Middle Eas...

July 27 (Reuters) - Shein's draft prospectus for a Hong Kong market listing has for the first time shed light on the top management and ownership structure of the online fast-fashion retailer, which was founded in China in 2012. The filing, which lays ...

July 27 (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. A fragile truce seems to have settled on the Gulf as the U.S. military ceased its attacks, in part because of concerns ​it was running out of ammunition, and Ir...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, July 27 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is set to keep interest rates steady on Friday but leave scope for further hikes with hawkish communication, as the economy faces mounting inflationary pressure from the Middle East war, a we...

July 27 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca topped second-quarter profit expectations and backed its 2026 forecasts on Monday on demand ​for its therapies, as the ‌drugmaker sought to quell concerns over longer-term growth prospects after a recent trial failure. A...

July 27 (Reuters) - Belgian-Dutch immunology company argenx ​will ‌buy Forte Biosciences to add experimental autoimmune ‌drug ​FB102 ⁠to its ⁠portfolio, the company said on Monday. Argenx will ​pay $77 a share ⁠in ⁠cash, valuing ​the U.S. ​drug develop...

By Francesco Canepa and Maria Martinez FRANKFURT, July 27 (Reuters) - Germany's plans to tighten sick-note rules may be mistaking the symptoms of rising absenteeism for the underlying illness, researchers say, pointing to mental health strains and dete...

DAKAR, July ​26 (Reuters) - ‌The number of ‌confirmed ​Ebola ⁠cases ⁠in the Democratic ​Republic ⁠of ⁠Congo ​has ​increased to 3,200, ‌including ⁠1,405 deaths, government ⁠data ‌showed ⁠on ​Sunday. (Reporting ‌by Congo ​newsroom; ⁠Editing by Christian...

By Julie Steenhuysen and Tom Polansek CHICAGO, July 25 (Reuters) - Two weeks before the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its cyclosporiasis health warning on July 14, Michigan warned of an unusually large outbreak of parasitic dis...

MOSCOW, July 26 (Reuters) - A Soyuz ​MS-28 ‌spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov ‌and ​Sergei ⁠Mikayev as ⁠well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams ​has returned ⁠to ⁠earth, Russia's ​Roscosmos space ​agency said on ‌Sunday. T...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - SpaceX's Starship rocket lifted off from Texas on Friday and briefly put its first 20 upgraded Starlink internet satellites into suborbital space, the company's 13th test mission as it aims to begin rout...

By Marta Serafinko July 24 (Reuters) - High up on volcano summits, the Andean leaf-eared mouse is showing how life can thrive in places where humans cannot. This plucky rodent, according to researchers, has evolved an unusual mix of metabolic and genet...

By Will Dunham July 23 (Reuters) - Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have had difficulty deciphering their evolution as a group. Now, a well-preserved fossil from sou...

By Antonio Bronic MLJET, Croatia, July 23 (Reuters) - A Byzantine-era ship discovered more than a decade ago on the seabed off Croatia's southern coast was probably carrying a high-ranking person and ​his entourage, judging by the gold jewellery found...

July 27 (Reuters) - Satellite operator Eutelsat said on Monday it expected to ​receive $504 million in ‌incentive payments under a U.S. plan to free up airwaves for faster ‌mobile ​and wireless ⁠services. The U.S. Federal ⁠Communications Commission ha...

By Yantoultra Ngui and Samuel Shen SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI, July 27 (Reuters) - Shares of CXMT Corp surged more than 500% on their Shanghai trading debut on Monday following Asia's biggest IPO this year, catapulting the chipmaker to the top of China's stock...

July 26 (Reuters) - Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The ​backstop from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease...

SEOUL, July 27 (Reuters) - Shares of South Korean internet and cloud service giant Naver jumped more than 10% on Monday after it said Nvidia would acquire $1 billion of its new shares to finance ​a project to expand an AI data centre. The move undersco...

By Yantoultra Ngui, Selena Li and Liz Lee SINGAPORE/BEIJING, July 26 (Reuters) - Shein swung to a $99 million quarterly loss due to slowing sales after the U.S. removed an import duty exemption on small packages and a hefty one-time accounting charge, ...

By Danielle Broadway San Diego, July 25 (Reuters) - Marvel Studios returned to San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday to unveil a slate of upcoming projects, such as "Ghost Rider," starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy, and "Black Panther 3." Set f...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway San Diego, July 24 (Reuters) - Even though San Diego Comic-Con is known for news-making panels centered on popular culture, the annual California convention is equally famous for its elaborate cosplayers. Each year, ...

By Sam Tobin LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of affray over what prosecutors described as a bottle attack on a producer in a London nightclub three years ​ago, with more serious assault charges d...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, July 23 (Reuters) - Indian actors Ranbir Kapoor and Yash arrived at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday to promote "Ramayana," a two-part film adaptation of one of Hinduism's ​most revered epics. Kapoor, who...

By Jody Godoy July 23 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance must pause its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery ​through August 17, a federal ‌judge ruled on Thursday. The move gives Paramount Skydance more time to argue against a potential mont...