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) -- 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...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- The South Dakota Highway Patrol is getting a $150-thousand grant to partner with ICE. The money will cover expenses for the Patrol's work in a program that has led to more than 200 immigration-related arrests in the state. State officials say the offenders were not only in the country illegal...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - A former senior adviser to the U.S. Federal Reserve was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for making false statements to ​investigators about sharing restricted information related to the central...

(Corrects governor's first name to Greg in paragraph 2) By Steve Gorman July 15 (Reuters) - A flash flood watch was posted across a broad swath of Texas on Wednesday as heavy downpours turned rivers into raging, life-threatening torrents and washed out...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - Detainees at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas told two rights groups they were beaten by guards, denied medical care and prevented from contacting family and lawyer...

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - The New York Times has filed a court motion to block federal grand jury subpoenas to three ​of its journalists over their reporting on ‌President Donald Trump's new Qatari-donated Air Force One, a spokesperson said on We...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - The driver of a Tesla Model 3 that killed a 76-year-old woman when it ploughed into her home at high speed in Katy, ​Texas in June had overridden the vehicle's advanced driver assistance ‌system, the ...

MOSCOW, July 16 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday it hit military and industrial facilities in ​the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, ‌as well as infrastructure at ports in Odesa and Pivdennyi and a maritime vessel. Both Moscow and Kyiv h...

July 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday called off its search for people missing from a triple-deck pontoon boat that capsized in ​San Francisco Bay a day earlier, leaving the ‌casualty toll at one confirmed death and three others lost at...

BANGKOK, July 16 (Reuters) - Two boats carrying more than 500 people may have capsized off the coast of Myanmar in recent days, UN agencies ​said on Thursday, as refugees from the ‌war-torn country continue to make perilous maritime journeys in search ...

(Corrects governor's first name to Greg in paragraph 2) By Steve Gorman July 15 (Reuters) - A flash flood watch was posted across a broad swath of Texas on Wednesday as heavy downpours turned rivers into raging, life-threatening torrents and washed out...

WELLINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - New Zealand and Fiji signed a renewed five-year Duavata Partnership on Thursday, setting ​out cooperation priorities for 2026 ‌to 2030 across trade, security, democracy, social development and climate resilience, New Zea...

The Philadelphia Flyers announced a four-year, $36.5 million contract for forward Trevor Zegras on Wednesday, avoiding arbitration for the restricted ​free agent. Zegras, 25, was acquired via ‌trade with the Anaheim Ducks last June. In his first seaso...

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK, July 15 (Reuters) - Gotham FC welcomed back striker Sam Kerr and secured a 1-0 win over Washington Spirit in front of a record crowd for a women's sporting event in New York City on Wednesday, as the women's ​game kept the ball...

By Jenna Zucker, Ethan and Plotkin NEW YORK, July 15 (Reuters) - World Cup fanatics Kevin Akoto and Austin Franklin have lived the dream of any diehard football fan ​this year: watching every match from the tournament from ‌start to finish - and getti...

Jalen Brunson was on center stage in New York again Wednesday, this time for a trio of ovations at the 2026 ESPY Awards. Hosted by Marcello Hernandez of "Saturday Night Live" fame Wednesday evening at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New...

Atlanta Hawks forward Mouhamed Gueye fractured his left foot during a workout on July ​8, the team announced Wednesday. Gueye, ‌23, underwent surgery Tuesday at the Emory Sports Medicine Complex in Atlanta to repair the fracture. He will ‌be ​re-evalu...

July 16 (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator on Thursday launched a probe into TikTok to understand ​whether its UK unit failed ‌or is failing to protect children from harmful content. The probe comes a month after the government imposed a blanket ‌ba...

LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) - The full implementation of China's rare earth export restrictions could put $6.5 trillion of downstream production outside the country at risk, the International Energy Agency ​warned on Thursday. China, the world's largest ...

By Noel Randewich July 16 (Reuters) - The dip in SpaceX's shares below its blockbuster IPO price of $135 a share is an ominous sign for Elon Musk's internet and rocket company as it faces more potential volatility in early August, when the number of sh...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) - Over 90% of Japanese households expect prices to rise a ​year from now, a ‌central bank survey showed on Thursday, higher than three months ago in a sign of broadening inflationary pressure that could ‌heighte...

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu The monstrous rally in Asian chipmakers this year is hitting a rocky patch. The jitters are evident in the sheer volatility of markets such as ​South Korea's KOSPI, where wild swing...

KAMPALA, July 16 (Reuters) - Uganda is due to discharge its last Ebola patient on Thursday, triggering a 42-day countdown that could see ​the country declared free of the virus, ‌a spokesperson for the government said. The wider outbreak, which the Wor...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. has implemented restrictions related to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo which prevent American ​citizens and nationals who have been in the African ‌country within a 21-d...

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday mandatory annual testosterone screening for troops 30 years ​old or above, an initiative he ‌said was aimed at combating testosterone deficiency that can undermi...

July 15 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly is in talks to acquire psychedelic drugmaker AtaiBeckley and a ​deal could be announced ‌as soon as this week, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. AtaiBeckley shares soared ‌66% ​i...

By Andrew Silver and Bhanvi Satija SHANGHAI/LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) - Leading Chinese drugmakers with global ambitions such as Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals and CanSino Biologics are struggling to recruit internationally experienced staff needed to...

CERRO PACHON, CHILE, July 15 (Reuters) - Perched atop a mountain in Chile's Coquimbo region, where some of the world's darkest skies stretch over the Andes, a giant observatory has ​begun filming the infinite to create the first movie of ‌the universe....

By Susanna Twidale HARWICH, England, July 15 (Reuters) - An international team of around 80 scientists and crew will set sail on polar research ship the RSS David Attenborough for Greenland this week to investigate whether the island's rapidly ​melting...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - Russia sent two cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the International Space Station on Tuesday from Kazakhstan, resuming crewed flights from a recently repaired launchpad with a rare joint attendance...

BERLIN, July 14 (Reuters) - German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Tuesday urged timetable and budget discipline for a planned military ​satellite project valued at 10 billion ‌euros ($11.45 billion), saying delays were unacceptable given current t...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Monday closed its review into a SpaceX Starship booster's return failure that occurred during a flight test in May, clearing the way for Elon Musk's company to...

July 16 (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator on Thursday launched a probe into TikTok to understand ​whether its UK unit failed ‌or is failing to protect children from harmful content. The probe comes a month after the government imposed a blanket ‌ba...

TAIPEI, July 16 (Reuters) - TSMC, the world's largest contract ​chipmaker, posted ‌a 77% jump in second-quarter net profit on Thursday, beating ‌market ​forecasts and ⁠hitting a ⁠record, riding the wave of surging global demand for its ​artificial inte...

By Leo Marchandon and Gianluca Lo Nostro July 16 (Reuters) - Airbus said on Thursday it had signed a multi-year agreement with Iliad-owned Scaleway to provide ​cloud infrastructure for sensitive industrial and defence applications, ‌supporting the depl...

TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) - Nvidia said on Thursday it was partnering with Japanese companies including Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric to advance ​the development of robotics and AI. "With ‌AI, robots will become smart, easily adaptable and accessible," Nvi...

By Sophie Kiderlin and Javi West Larrañaga LONDON/GDANSK, July 16 (Reuters) - European companies are heading for their strongest earnings season in more than three years, but investors remain concerned that the region lacks enough AI-powered growth en...

RABAT, July 16 (Reuters) - Casablanca's public prosecutor ordered rapper and documentary ​filmmaker El Mahdi ‌Lyoubi, an outspoken critic of Morocco's political system, into pre-trial detention on Wednesday, ‌a ​rights group and ⁠a judicial ⁠source sai...

By Harshita Mary Varghese July 15 (Reuters) - Netflix is under pressure to reassure investors about its growth strategy when it reports second-quarter results on Thursday, as its user engagement ​has faltered amid growing competition from traditional m...

July 14 (Reuters) - Versant Media's USA Sports said on Tuesday it had struck a multi-year deal to become the exclusive English-language ​U.S. broadcaster of Germany's Bundesliga starting in ‌August. The agreement reflects a broader industry push into l...

By Amy-Jo Crowley and Milana Vinn July 14 (Reuters) - Lionsgate Studios, the entertainment company behind the "Hunger Games" and "John Wick" franchises, is exploring a sale and has attracted takeover interest from France's Bollore Group, as consolidati...

By Jody Godoy and Lisa Richwine July 14 (Reuters) - The Writers Guild of America sued on Tuesday to block Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, saying the deal would jeopardize writers' livelihoods and threaten the health of U....