BLACK HILLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - The Black Hills National Forest Service is returning to Stage One fire restrictions. The announcement was made on Thursday. Under Stage One restrictions, campfires are allowed if they are in permanent fire rings. Explosives, smoking and welding are all prohibited under the new restriction...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - A 19-year-old woman pleads guilty to aggravated assault in a shooting at a truck stop in Tea. Mattison Hitzeman was charged with attempted murder and other charges. She could face up to 15 years in prison following the plea agreement. She'll be sentenced in November.

YANKTON, S.D. (KELO.com) - A Yankton man faces deportation, even though he's been in the U.S. since he was four. Nate Samudzi was set to be deported to Burundi, but a temporary order put that on hold. The 30-year-old works for UPS and has a one-year-old child with his wife Sydney. He was taken into ICE custody in Sioux...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO.com) - Pennington County officials are releasing some of the details of their response to a cyber-attack in July. The attack forced IT Staff to take servers offline. All county departments have returned to operation, but some services are still limited online. Officials say they believe it was a ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - Future air traffic controllers will be able to get their training at the Sioux Falls Airport. The FAA has installed a new tower simulation system that re-creates the airport's layout. Controllers can practice scenarios of visual takeoffs and landings. The FAA says the tool could cut train...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - Senator Mike Rounds is claiming at least a partial victory in his two-year battle over slow mail delivery in South Dakota. The Office of Inspector General has released its report from the investigation requested by Sen. Rounds. The Sioux Falls processing facility will be upgraded to a reg...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) - Independent U-S Senate Candidate Brian Bengs is defending his actions after a heated verbal conflict was captured on video. Bengs was speaking to reporters, but left the podium to defend fellow independent Dan Osborn of Nebraska. He can be seen pointing and arguing with the man before the two ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) - Waterfowl season opens in South Dakota this weekend. Hunters will take to the fields and sloughs of South Dakota early Saturday morning. As they do, Game Fish & Parks is reminding them to take care not to spread zebra mussels and other invasive species. All equipment that's been submerged ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) - South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley urges consumers to check their eligibility for compensation for certain generic drug purchases and to submit a claim for compensation. The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut granted preliminary approval to a plan to distribute settle...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) - A judge has denied The League of Women Voters' request for a preliminary injunction over South Dakota's new voter registration law...but the league is claiming victory in the case. The law requires new voters to prove U.S. citizenship in order to vote in state elections. At issue was an errone...

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Atlanta's newest celebrities arrived in style on Sunday, as two giant pandas from China touched down at Hartsfield-Jackson airport aboard a jumbo jet dubbed the FedEx ​Panda Express. Two years after t...

By Idrees Ali and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump confirmed that he plans to have a dinner meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday night, but reaffirmed his stance against slowing the pace of...

MILAN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Giorgio Armani presented a womenswear collection on Sunday that combined its trademark tailoring with shimmering fabrics, as the ​Italian luxury group navigates a transition period ‌a year after the death of its founder. Titl...

BANGKOK, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet on Sunday approved special holidays on September 28 and 29 ​for civil servants in Bangkok ‌and three surrounding provinces due to heavy rainfall. • "The measure aims to reduce travel and ease traffic disr...

NEW YORK, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Republicans are pouring money into more than three dozen US House races previously considered "safe" after internal polling showed they could be vulnerable in the November 3 election, according to three Republican operativ...

SEOUL, Sept 28 (Reuters) - South Korea's presidential ​office on ‌Monday demanded an official explanation and apology ‌from ​Ukraine, ⁠saying Kyiv ⁠unilaterally disclosed the transfer of North Korean ​prisoners of war ⁠to South ⁠Korea despite ​a prior ...

Sept 27 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Abu Dhabi and met with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Sunday, a senior Israeli official ​told Reuters. There was no immediate comment from Netanyahu's office ‌a...

PARIS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - French far-right leaders said their party, the National Rally, and its right-wing allies ​won enough seats in Sunday's ‌indirect election of senators to form their own caucus. It was the first time the party had cleared the 1...

LOURDES, France, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Pope Leo reaffirmed his commitment ​to ending ‌abuse by priests in the Catholic Church during a meeting in ‌Lourdes ​with seven ⁠survivors of abuse ⁠by French clergy, the Vatican said on Sunday. The pope "thanked th...

By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic announced his resignation on Sunday, ending his second and final five-year term and paving the way for early presidential elections. Vucic's resignation, s...

By Rory Carroll Sept 27 (Reuters) - Jacob Bridgeman clinched the winning point as the United States rallied to beat the International Team 17-13 and retain the Presidents Cup near Chicago on Sunday. Bridgeman beat Australia's Min Woo Lee 1-up to give ​...

By Field Level Media Sep 27 (Field Level Media) - Illinois defensive coordinator Bobby Hauck is out after a 42-19 loss at ​Ohio State on Saturday. Fighting Illini head ‌coach Bret Bielema said Sunday that he met with Hauck before the scheduled team gat...

By Field Level Media Sep 27 (Field Level Media) - The Los Angeles Rams travel to face the Denver Broncos on Sunday night in a big early-season matchup between 1-1 teams with aspirations of deep playoff runs. The Rams are expected to be without wide rec...

By Field Level Media Sep 27 (Field Level Media) - Cameron Smith said he accepts the fact that he cannot compete for the International team at the Presidents Cup due to his decision years ago to join LIV Golf. Now that ​LIV's initial financial backers, ...

By Field Level Media Sep 27 (Field Level Media) - Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers ​is active for his team's ‌game against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. NFL Network reported that Flowers' playing ‌time ​may be limite...

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Oil prices ​rebounded ‌more than 1% on Monday after ‌US ​President ⁠Donald Trump ⁠rejected a peace deal from Iran ​to resolve their ⁠conflict ⁠and reopen ​the Strait ​of Hormuz. Brent crude ‌futures rose $1.82, or 1.74%, ...

STOCKHOLM, Sept 28 (Reuters) - A surge in diesel prices linked to this year's Iran conflict has helped make electric trucks cheaper to own and ​operate than diesel models in six major ‌European Union markets, which account for almost half of the bloc's...

ZURICH, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Several major foreign banks have expressed their interest in a possible merger or ​combination with Switzerland's UBS, a ‌Swiss newspaper said on Sunday. At least eight banks have signalled interest to UBS, Blick reported, c...

By Idrees Ali and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump confirmed that he plans to have a dinner meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday night, but reaffirmed his stance against slowing the pace of...

Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Chinese government has signaled it could allow some domestic companies like ByteDance and ​Alibaba to buy Nvidia's chip ‌built for high-end professional computers, The Information reported on Sunday, citing two people familiar w...

DHAKA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Bangladesh launched a nationwide measles-rubella vaccination campaign on Saturday, targeting 3.4 million unvaccinated and missed children, amid its worst-ever measles outbreak, which has ​killed more than 1,000 people and inf...

Sept 25 (Reuters) - The US Food and Drug Administration has approved AbbVie's treatment for Parkinson's disease in adults, the ​health regulator's website showed on Friday. The ‌drug tavapadon, which AbbVie gained access to through its $8.7 billion acq...

Sept 25 (Reuters) - Merck and Daiichi Sankyo have withdrawn their US application seeking accelerated approval for an experimental lung cancer therapy, the companies said on ​Friday, marking the second pullback under their ‌multibillion-dollar cancer al...

By Kunal Das and Christy Santhosh Sept 25 (Reuters) - The US FDA on Friday approved Mirum Pharmaceuticals' pill for a rare bone disorder, offering patients a new treatment option that ​can help slow the disease's progression. The once-daily drug zilurg...

By Siddhi Mahatole Sept 25 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Friday that the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread ​to two additional health zones, bringing the total number aff...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Bats are critical players in global ecosystems, pollinating plants, dispersing seeds and eating huge numbers of insects. One of only three lineages of flying vertebrates in Earth's history, there are more ...

Sept 24 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it will launch a prototype satellite next week in its first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research ​effort to explore whether space could potentially host ‌large-scale AI computing infrast...

Sept 23 (Reuters) - Anthropic on Wednesday said its Claude model helped discover a novel enzyme system ​with properties reminiscent of ‌mechanisms in gene-editing technology CRISPR, marking the first result from the AI startup's biology research effort...

By Akash Sriram Sept 23 (Reuters) - Private investment in space companies globally more than doubled to $23 billion in the year through June as the sector shifts toward ​proven businesses, according to British investment firm Seraphim ‌and Relm Insuran...

By Marta Serafinko Sept 21 (Reuters) - When an opera singer reaches for a high note, a subtle shift in the shape of the mouth and throat can make the sound carry farther. New research shows that one of Madagascar's most unusual animals - a singing lemu...

By Idrees Ali and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump confirmed that he plans to have a dinner meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday night, but reaffirmed his stance against slowing the pace of...

Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Chinese government has signaled it could allow some domestic companies like ByteDance and ​Alibaba to buy Nvidia's chip ‌built for high-end professional computers, The Information reported on Sunday, citing two people familiar w...

KYIV, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile service provider on Sunday, ​the company told local media, ‌as Moscow continued a bombardment of Ukrainian data centres and communications infrastructure. Kyivs...

SHANGHAI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The United States and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on $30 billion of goods and launch a dialogue on AI, both countries said following President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington. The tariff reductions would apply ​to...

Sept 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's Nubank is in early-stage talks with British digital bank Monzo about a potential combination that ​could value Monzo at between £8 ‌billion and £10 billion ($10.60 billion - $13.25 billion), Sky News reported on Saturday. •...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Sept 25 (Reuters) - A woman who accused musician Jay-Z of rape in a 2024 lawsuit has recanted her claim and said she never met the billionaire rapper. The ​woman, who was identified as Jane Doe in court papers, had ‌accuse...

By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI, Sept 25 (Reuters) - India's Zee Entertainment has asked the Delhi High Court to initiate contempt proceedings against Reliance-Disney joint venture JioStar, alleging it continued to use copyrighted content ​despite a cou...

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - U2 marked 50 years as a band on Friday by returning to the school where they started playing together as teenagers and delighted current students with a ​concert featuring hits such as 'With Or Without You'...

MILAN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Gucci designer Demna on Friday unveiled what he described as his first complete personal vision for the brand, presenting ​pagoda-shouldered tailoring and cropped, puff-shaped outerwear, as ‌the Kering-owned label seeks to re...

PARIS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The organisers of the prestigious Goncourt literary prize said on Friday they had removed a smash-hit novel by Haitian-Canadian author Thelyson Orelien from their longlist after accusations he used ​AI to write it. Orelien de...