SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- State and local law enforcement officials are riding high on lower crime stats for 2025. Violent crimes and property crimes were down sharply from 2024, while fraud and cyber cases were up. But, frustration lurks in the midst of the celebration. Mayor Paul TenHaken and Police Chief Jon ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's official. March Madness has arrived in Sioux Falls with the Summit League men's and women's basketball championships. The first game is Wednesday night, featuring ORU and Kansas City. The city is going all out, creating 'Summit League Central' at Jacobson Plaza at The Falls, free p...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Law enforcement in Sioux Falls has something to brag about: violent crime is at a five year low. The city grew by about five thousand people in 2025, and as Mayor Paul TenHaken pointed out, "Not all of the new residents are choir boys." On a per-capita basis, violent crime, and...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Due to current ice conditions and warm temperatures, the City of Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Department will start transitioning the Jacobson Plaza skate ribbon for the spring and summer season. Beginning Tuesday, March 3, the Jacobson Plaza skate ribbon will be temporarily closed as...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A 45-year old Sioux Falls man faces several charges after a hit and run accident involving an E-bike early Monday morning at I-229 and East 10th. The crash left a Sioux Falls man with serious, life-threatening injuries. A female passenger on the E-bike suffered non-life threatening injur...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- "Thanks, but no thanks" seems to be the message from the legislature on 87-million federal dollars for broadband expansion. The state Senate failed to get a two-thirds majority needed for spending the money. Supporters are asking for another vote.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- The South Dakota Senate will get another look at a bill to criminalize AI-generated pornography. The State House amended the bill so it would apply to specific instances of harassment, threats or other damages. Offenses would carry a maximum penalty of a five year prison term and ten-thousand...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- State and local law enforcement officials are riding high on lower crime stats for 2025. Violent crimes and property crimes were down sharply from 2024, while fraud and cyber cases were up. But, frustration lurks in the midst of the celebration. Mayor Paul TenHaken and Police Chief Jon ...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- No pop purchases with SNAP/Food Stamp benefits. Governor Larry Rhoden signed that bill into law today...even though he doesn't believe it's the best way to approach the problem. He says having Congress make the change would avoid costs for South Dakota taxpayers. If that happens, he says the...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- An effort to provide free school lunches to students who qualify for reduced-price meals cleared another hurdle in Pierre Tuesday morning. Sponsor, Representative Kadyn Wittman of Sioux Falls says it will help families that make up to 185-percent of the federal poverty level. The Senate Educ...

By Steve Gorman March 4 (Reuters) - The following is a chronology of key developments in what authorities describe as the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC's "Today" show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. She was last seen by family m...

By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is using a preventative treatment for a red rash on his neck, according to his physician, ​but the White House declined on Wednesday to ‌share further details about the conditio...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee will probe allegations of sexual misconduct and favoritism against Representative Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican ​who has been engulfed by claims rela...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it is considering limits on U.S. telecom firms' use of foreign call ​centers and requiring foreign-based customer service workers to ‌be profici...

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday defended the government's spending of $220 million on an advertising campaign for border security amid ​questions from lawmakers about the contracti...

BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday that it would build a "childbirth-friendly society" in the next five years as it pledged to address concerns over employment, education, medical care, health ​and income, according to an official gove...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, March 5 (Reuters) - Nearly six months after a wave of unprecedented youth-led protests and the deaths of 77 people forced Nepal's then prime minister to quit, people began voting on Thursday in a general election that will ch...

BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China's 2026 defence spending will rise 7%, a copy of an official government report reviewed by Reuters ​showed on Thursday, slightly lower than ‌the 2025 increase of 7.2% but roughly in line with rises over the last decade...

BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China will ensure ​Hong ‌Kong is more effectively governed in ‌accordance ​with ⁠the law, ⁠in a copy of an official government ​report reviewed by ⁠Reuters ⁠on Thursday. The ​report also ​said China would ‌support Hong Kong...

By Alasdair Pal and Melanie Burton SYDNEY, March 5 (Reuters) - Australia and Canada said on Thursday they had signed new agreements on critical minerals as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a landmark address to the Australian parliament, ​a sig...

Clara Strack racked up 20 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks and Amelia Hassett drained six 3-pointers for her 18 points as No. 17 Kentucky kicked off the SEC women's basketball ​tournament with a 94-64 romp over Arkansas on Wednesday in ‌Greenville,...

Amarachi Kimpson drained the go-ahead 3-pointer 1:06 into overtime and Miami brushed off a blown double-digit lead to beat Stanford 83-76 in the opening round of the ACC women's basketball tournament on Wednesday ​in Duluth, Ga. Twelfth-seeded Miami (...

The flag football event organized by Tom Brady and Fanatics for Saudi Arabia for later this month ​in Riyadh is likely being moved ‌to the United States amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, Front Office Sports reported Wednesday. In light of attac...

The Buffalo Sabres are finalizing a deal to acquire shutdown defenseman Colton Parayko from the St. Louis Blues, TSN reported ​Wednesday. The prospective trade requires Parayko's approval. ‌The 32-year-old veteran, a career-long member of the Blues, p...

With a lockout looming, the WNBPA executive committee declared players are unified and continue to push for a "transformational CBA" agreement with the league. The seven-player ​committee issued a signed statement further supporting ‌the survey result...

By Katya Golubkova TOKYO, March 5 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Thursday amid growing concern over the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, as the U.S.-Iran war chokes off vital Middle East oil and ​gas flows while production facilities limit ou...

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, March 5 (Reuters) - The Australian and New Zealand dollars were back from the brink on Thursday as a sudden mood swing in global markets helped risk assets rally, offsetting an otherwise soft ​set of domestic economic data. Deal...

SINGAPORE, March 5 (Reuters) - China has set its 2026 economic growth target at 4.5%-5%, slightly lower than the 5% pace achieved last year, signalling room for greater, albeit not decisive, measures to address industrial overcapacity and rebalance the...

SHANGHAI, March 5 (Reuters) - China lifted its official yuan midpoint to ​the strongest ‌level in 34 months and firmer than market projections on Thursday, in ‌what ​investors interpreted ⁠as an attempt ⁠to stabilise the Chinese currency. Prior to mark...

SYDNEY, March 5 (Reuters) - Australian household spending bounced in January but that was not enough to offset the previous month's fall as consumers stayed cautious with rate hikes ​looming, data showed on Thursday. Data from the Australian Bureau ‌of...

BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday that it would build a "childbirth-friendly society" in the next five years as it pledged to address concerns over employment, education, medical care, health ​and income, according to an official gove...

March 4 (Reuters) - Ozempic, Mounjaro and other GLP-1 drugs for diabetes can prevent the formation of new substance use disorders and alleviate existing addictions, according to findings from a large study of U.S. military veterans. The protective effe...

March 4 (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has launched a website to sell some of its drugs directly to U.S. ​patients who either don't have ‌insurance or pay for their drugs out of pocket. The website, called J&J Direct, lists three drugs: diabetes treatme...

March 4 (Reuters) - PepGen said on Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed a partial clinical hold on ​its mid‑stage trial of a rare ‌muscle disease drug, sending its shares plunging over 25% in extended trading. The drug, PGN‑E...

By Kamal Choudhury and Sneha S K March 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top operations official, Barclay Butler, will retire from federal service, and 30-year agency veteran Melanie ​Keller is set to take his place next month, acc...

March 4 (Reuters) - NASA plans to select United Launch Alliance to supply a critical component for future missions of its ​moon rocket, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, ‌citing people familiar with the matter. The move could replace planned Boeing...

(Clarifies timeframe in third bullet point) By Giselda Vagnoni ROME, March 4 (Reuters) - A marble bust that has stood for centuries in one of Rome's basilicas has been re-attributed to Michelangelo after nearly 200 years in obscurity, following a docum...

DAKAR, March 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. mining company backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates is in a tangle with Belgium's AfricaMuseum over who should digitise antique maps of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in the museum's archive. ...

MADRID, March 4 (Reuters) - Aerospace engineering firm PLD Space said on Wednesday it had closed a 180 million euro ($209 million) equity ​funding round, which included Mitsubishi Electric, as ‌it seeks to boost its capacity to launch rockets into spac...

MOSCOW, March 3 (Reuters) - Russia's space agency said on Tuesday that repair work had ​been completed at a ‌damaged section of a launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that is critical to Moscow's ‌space ​programme, Russian ⁠state media r...

BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China vowed on Thursday to accelerate efforts to achieve greater technological reliance, pledging to boost still young domestic ​industries such as semiconductors, aerospace and artificial ‌intelligence. It will also nurtur...

By Heejin Kim and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, March 5 (Reuters) - South Korea's chip industry is concerned that a prolonged Iranian crisis will disrupt supplies of key materials from the Middle East and ​increase chip prices as a result of a spike in ‌energy co...

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers led by Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Tom Cotton on Wednesday raised national security concerns over Intel's testing of chipmaking tools made by...

By David Jeans and Mike Stone NEW YORK, March 4 (Reuters) - Palantir is the latest company to face the painful task of unwinding from Anthropic in the wake of the AI lab's dispute with the Pentagon over safety guardrails, raising questions about a key ...

By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO, March 4 (Reuters) - Amazon on Tuesday confirmed it laid off staff across its robotics unit, with at least 100 ​white-collar jobs affected, two people familiar with the ‌matter told Reuters. This comes after a January cu...

March 4 (Reuters) - Television host Gayle King has signed a new contract to remain at CBS News, a person familiar with ​the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, ending ‌months of speculation about her future at the network. "Rumors of my demise were inacc...

BERLIN, March 4 (Reuters) - Berlin Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle will remain in her role but has been given a set of new guidelines, a statement said on Wednesday, after tensions ​over Gaza overshadowed the event in February. Tuttle's future as ...

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) - Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal's new film "The Bride!" began with a tattoo. "I went to a party and I saw this guy with the tattoo of the 'Bride of Frankenstein' on his entire forearm...and somethin...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, March 3 (Reuters) - American filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir is making waves in this year's Oscar documentary race, earning two nominations: "The Perfect ​Neighbor" for best documentary feature and "The Devil ‌...

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - Wrexham co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney will swap the directors' box for a seat behind the microphone for the club's Championship clash against Swansea City next week. The 'Live ​from Wrexham with Rob & Ryan' even...