SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a plan that's been three years in the making - and it replaces a plan that was developed 30 years ago. The Sioux Falls Parks and Rec department is revealing new plans for the park that showcases the namesake of the city. This morning, as a leadup to a public open house on the plan t...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It appears as though major construction on another section of Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls will have to wait a year. Nine-million dollars cut from an Aquatics bond was intended to repay the city's reserve fund for the purchase price of the Sanford Wellness Center on Tea/Ellis Road. P...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Higher interest rates and inflation are taking some of the luster out of the Sioux Falls economy - and the city budget. City councilors are pulling in the reins on spending because of declining sales tax revenues. One of the areas of concern is new construction. City Finance Director Sh...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- He was considered armed and dangerous, but the long arm of the law has brought in the second suspect in a deadly Sioux Falls shooting. 28-year old Lamont Burks, Junior was arrested in South Carolina Tuesday afternoon. He faces several charges, including first degree murder in the late Au...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A two vehicle/Pedestrian accident sent five people to the hospital this morning, two in serious condition. Two vehicles collided at the intersection of 41st and Sertoma, shortly after 8:00 am Tuesday, then struck a pedestrian standing at the corner. The crash is still under investigation...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A change at the top of South Dakota's Republican party. State chairman John Wiik won't seek a second term. The Dakota Scout reports there are three people interested in the post. Former state House Majority Leader Lee Qualm, "Vote No on H" chair Ezra Hays, and anti-carbon pipeline ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- As expected, an election lawsuit involving both sides of the Abortion Amendment G on South Dakota's ballot has been dismissed. Both sides requested the dismissal. The suit challenged the petition signature collection process, but that became a moot point when the amendment was defeated.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- It's called the Kids Online Safety Act. Attorney General Marty Jackley and 31 of his colleagues say it's time for Congress to join the effort to protect children from harmful internet content. The measure would require platforms to automatically enable their strongest safety protections, prev...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A 20-million dollar investment is paying big dividends for the state of South Dakota, in the area of Rural Telemedicine. It's called the Telemedicine in Motion program, and the state Health Department says it has transformed emergency medical services across the state. EMS and Trauma Administ...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota just finished the first quarter of the 2025 fiscal year. The Legislature's Appropriations committee was told this afternoon revenues are down. Derek Johnson of the Bureau of Finance and Management says the budget assumed three-percent growth. The farm economy is down sharply, as ...

By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - K-pop music may be South Korea's buzziest export but the industry needlessly creates mountains of plastic in its home market by churning out CDs that most fans don't even listen to, critics say. Wha...

By William James, Simon Jessop and Gloria Dickie BAKU (Reuters) -The United Nations climate body published on Thursday fresh options for the COP29 summit's primary goal of agreeing how much money richer countries should provide poorer ones to help them...

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investment banker Howard Lutnick's exposure to China came into sharp relief on Wednesday, after Republican President-elect Donald Trump tapped him to lead the agencies that have become the tip of the spear ...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - A piece of art that is little more than a banana duct-taped to a wall sold at auction for $6.2 million on Wednesday to cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, Sotheby's said, furthering the universal conversation about ...

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said on Wednesday that 27,000 pounds (13.5 tons) of deadly hydrogen sulfide gas was released at Pemex's Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Oct. 10, causing the deaths of two contract...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that a new U.S. ballistic missile defence base in northern Poland will lead to an increase in the overall level of nuclear danger and was on a Russian targeting list for potential destru...

(Removes extraneous words in headline) BELGRADE (Reuters) - The High Prosecutors Office in the Serbian city of Novi Sad said on Thursday that 11 people were arrested in connection with the collapse of a railway station roof earlier this month that ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is ready to consider any "realistic" peace initiative on the conflict in Ukraine which takes into account Russia's own interests and the situation on the ground, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on...

By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) - Taiwan is not involved in military assistance for Ukraine as it is "too sensitive" but would like to establish a representative office in the country, Taiwan Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu said. Taiwan has off...

By Alasdair Pal and Panarat Thepgumpanat SYDNEY/BANGKOK (Reuters) - An Australian teenager died on Thursday after drinking alcohol contaminated with methanol in Laos, Thai police and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, the fourth forei...

By Rory Carroll LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - McLaren's Lando Norris said he was probably not ready to challenge Max Verstappen for the Formula One title this season and accepted that his hopes were effectively over after a demoralising defeat in Brazil ea...

(Reuters) - Triple Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty said he is not ready to make a decision about competing at the 2028 Los Angeles Games after the Briton was left frustrated by illness and some of the team's decision-making in Paris. Peaty mis...

By Rory Carroll LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Formula One drivers were surprised by the sudden departure of race director Niels Wittich and are "a bit fed up" with the leadership of the governing FIA, Mercedes' George Russell said on Wednesday. The drivers...

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 25 of his 41 points in the third quarter and the Milwaukee Bucks pulled away in the final minutes to beat the visiting Chicago Bulls 122-106 on Wednesday. Brook Lopez had 21 points and Damian Lillard added 20 points and 10...

Grant Nelson scored 19 of his 23 points in the first half and finished with eight rebounds and four blocked shots to help No. 8 Alabama cruise to a 100-87 victory over No. 25 Illinois on Wednesday night at Birmingham, Ala. Aden Holloway added 18 point...

By Eduardo Baptista and Lisandra Paraguassu RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - In his first global meetings since Donald Trump was reelected to lead the U.S., Chinese President Xi Jinping went on a diplomatic offensive, hedging against expected ne...

By Krishna N. Das and Munsif Vengattil NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, indicted in New York over a $265 million bribery scheme, is a first-generation tycoon whose phenomenal rise has been accompanied by a series of damaging c...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain borrowed more than expected in October, according to official data that showed the scale of the challenge facing finance minister Rachel Reeves who says she will fix the public finances as well as increase spending sharply. In...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka expects the IMF to announce a staff level agreement on its third review of the country's bailout programme on Friday, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told the first sitting of the new parliament...

(Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams sees inflation cooling and interest rates falling further, he told Barron's in an interview published on Thursday. Two percent is the inflation rate that can best balance the cent...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Novartis' CEO said on Thursday that the delayed launch of blood-cancer drug pelabresib from the takeover of Morphosys could be achieved in 2027 or later, but any approval would depend on further safety data. "It will take us a...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Novartis on Thursday raised its medium-term sales guidance, predicting 6% annual growth through 2028, driven by strong momentum of launched drugs and the prospect of upcoming market introductions. The Swiss drugmaker was previ...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip star...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Jazz Pharmaceuticals' drug for the treatment of a type of biliary tract cancer, the company said on Wednesday. The drug zanidatamab-hrii, sold under the brand name Ziihera, is approved for use i...

By Stephanie Kelly and Nathan Layne (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely choose Johns Hopkins surgeon and writer Martin Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wedne...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip star...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every cell type in the body to better understand huma...

By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions about the impact that climate change is having on tropical storms across the globe. ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists working in an international collaboration have tracked how the structure of the cosmos has grown over the past 11 billion years, providing the most precise test to date of how gravity behaves at very...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its sixth Starship test flight to space on Tuesday from Texas, eyeing an array of improvements on the rocket as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump watched in person. The roughly 400-foot-tall (122-meter-tall) ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - SK Square, the holding company of SK Hynix, a maker of artificial intelligence chips, on Thursday announced a plan to buy back shares and nominate an independent director as part of efforts to boost shareholder value. The plan cam...

(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday argued to a judge that Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data, and search results with rivals, and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on online search. The proposals are wide-rangin...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police said on Thursday an investigation confirmed that hackers linked to North Korea's military intelligence agency were responsible for an Ethereum cryptocurrency heist in 2019, worth 58 billion won ($41.5 million) ...

By Fanny Potkin (Reuters) - China's Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2025, even as it struggles to make enough chips due to U.S. restrictions, said two people familiar with ...

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the internet, U.S. prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesd...

By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - K-pop music may be South Korea's buzziest export but the industry needlessly creates mountains of plastic in its home market by churning out CDs that most fans don't even listen to, critics say. Wha...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Cirque du Soleil will kick off its first permanent European show next year in Berlin's central Potsdamer Platz, the Canadian circus company announced on Wednesday, promising a production that would push the boundaries of the imag...

(Reuters) -Comcast plans to divest the bulk of its once-coveted NBCUniversal cable TV assets, including MSNBC and CNBC, as the rising dominance of streaming platforms relegates legacy media businesses to the cutting room floor. Shares of the company r...

By Malgorzata Wojtunik TORUN, Poland (Reuters) - Alec Baldwin's Western "Rust" premiered at a low-key Polish film festival on Wednesday, three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died when Baldwin pointed a gun at her, in Hollywood's first ...

By Ben Makori AMERSHAM, England (Reuters) - The former members of boy band "One Direction" were among the mourners at the funeral of their band mate Liam Payne on Wednesday, just over a month after he died aged 31. Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall H...