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. Police said ⁠multiple people ⁠were shot in the...

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...

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 ...

By Gerardo Arbaiza SAN SALVADOR, July 26 (Reuters) - El Salvador's opposition parties have named Maytee Iraheta, a former lawmaker, as well as doctor and union leader Rafael Aguirre ​to run against President Nayib Bukele in the next ‌presidential elect...

By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 (Reuters) - Nur is a 12-year-old Rohingya Muslim refugee in Malaysia who has stopped going to school since June, after two men threatened to beat her on her way to class. "Why do you want to go to school? Do you ...

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, July 27 (Reuters) - Ship traffic through Bab el-Mandeb fell on Sunday after Yemeni Houthis attacked Saudi oil installations along the Red Sea coast, while transit through the Strait of Hormuz stayed low over the weekend, ship...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, July 27 (Reuters) - The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration slumped in July to the lowest level since she took office last year, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on ​Sunday, a sign that rising...

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 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...

BEIJING, July 27 (Reuters) - Profits at China's industrial firms grew at a solid, though slower, pace as resilient exports helped cushion sluggish domestic demand, highlighting the economy's uneven recovery despite policymakers' ​efforts to spur consum...

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, July 27 (Reuters) - Share markets gave a guarded response on Monday as a pause in fighting in the Gulf dragged oil prices lower, easing inflation risks and boosting bonds ahead of a packed week of central bank meetings and earning...

TOKYO, July 27 (Reuters) - Japan's services producer price index rose ​3.2% in June ‌from a year earlier, central bank data showed on Monday, a sign ‌of ​broadening inflationary ⁠pressure that will ⁠keep alive market expectations for further interest r...

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...

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...

SYDNEY, July 25 (Reuters) - Queensland became Australia's fourth state to confirm a case of H5N1 bird flu after ​authorities said on Saturday that a ‌migratory seabird tested positive for the highly pathogenic virus. Australia was the final continent t...

By Jonathan Stempel July 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Abbott Laboratories of defrauding shareholders by downplaying and trying to evade its responsibility for a ​2022 recall of powdered infant formula, and lying...

July 24 (Reuters) - A panel of advisers to ​the U.S. ‌Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted to ‌place ​a ⁠popular peptide called ⁠Semax on a list that would allow broader ​pharmacy compounding. Eight panel members ⁠voted ⁠in favor, while ​five v...

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...

By Yantoultra Ngui and Samuel Shen SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI, July 27 (Reuters) - Shares of CXMT Corp surged 470% at their Shanghai debut on Monday in Asia's biggest IPO this year, catapulting the chipmaker ​to the top of China's stock market by valuation des...

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 investment c...

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, ...

July 25 (Reuters) - Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that ​it is suspending the deal ‌for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. Here are some details:...

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...