SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls City Hall is working to save some time on a recount in the runoff election for mayor. The City Council was set to certify the election results next Tuesday. Now, the timeline has been changed, and the votes will be canvassed Friday morning. After results are certified, candi...

ROME, ITALY (KELO.com) -- O'Gorman high students spending time with Pope Leo in Italy. The Pontiff can be seen on a social media post speaking with students during their recent pilgrimage. The post describes it as a once in a lifetime experience they'll never forget.

CANTON, SD (KELO.com) -- There will be delays, but a judge has ordered a competency evaluation for a murder suspect from Tea. Timothy Overton is charged in the 2024 shooting death of 19-year old Isaiah Morales in an apartment parking lot. Late last year, the judge in the case denied Overton's request to dismiss the c...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A man faces robbery charges following an incident at a Sioux Falls motel early yesterday morning. The victim says he heard someone pounding on his door. When he opened it, a man with a knife started screaming at him, and a woman ran into the room as the suspect stabbed the door. The uni...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls School board has unanimously approved opting out of property tax limitations to meet the needs of next year's budget. But, the amount of the opt out will be smaller than last year, so the school's portion of tax bills will be lower. Dawn Marie Johnson chaired last night's...

WASHINGTON, DC (KELO.com) -- President Trump will be joining the America 250 Fireworks Celebration at Mount Rushmore. The White House just made the announcement today. Governor Larry Rhoden says it will be the biggest birthday party ever for the nation. Shortly after the White House announcement, Senator Mike Rounds...

WASHINGTON, DC (KELO.com) -- If you're having problems with poor mail service, Senator Mike Rounds wants to hear from you. The Office of the Inspector General is investigating poor mail service in South Dakota. Senator Rounds has been working on the problem for two years, and wants to make sure investigators have all...

BLACK HILLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Production was down, but revenues were up for South Dakota's only active, large-scale gold mine last year. Wharf Mine produced over 97-thousand ounces of gold, selling $334-million worth of gold. The company paid the state nearly $17-million in severance taxes during the year.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The South Dakota Cattlemen's Foundation celebrated its 13th annual Prime Time Gala over the weekend, raising funds for Feeding South Dakota. The organization has donated over $3-million since the start of the event. The effort helps provide beef for families who need help across the stat...

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- They're calling it a 'green drought'. Southern South Dakota is short on moisture, even though crops look healthy. They look healthy, but SDSU Extension Field Specialist Heather Gessner says there isn't enough moisture to generate strong crop production. The Extension Service is meeting with far...

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - ​U.S. ‌President Donald Trump ‌signed ​an ⁠agriculture related ⁠executive order on ​Thursday, ⁠the ⁠White House ​said, ​adding the move ‌was aimed ⁠at strengthening the ⁠security ‌of ⁠the ​United ‌States' food ​supply. ...

June 25 (Reuters) - ​The ‌U.S. Treasury ‌on ​Thursday ⁠issued ⁠a license authorizing ​transactions ⁠related ⁠to ​earthquake ​relief efforts ‌in ⁠Venezuela that would ⁠have ‌been ⁠banned ​under ‌sanctions ​into October. (Reporting ⁠by Costas ​Pitas)...

June 25 (Reuters) - Two powerful earthquakes that struck the northern coast of Venezuela and capital Caracas on Wednesday claimed at least 188 lives, a toll that could increase as rescue teams comb the debris of collapsed buildings. Until now, the dead...

By Humeyra Pamuk June 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has formally notified Congress of its intention to sell dozens of jet engines worth more than $700 million to Turkey, according to a copy of the formal notification seen by Re...

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said ​on Thursday he will ‌transmit the housing bill to the White House following his meeting with U.S. President ‌Donald ​Trump, an Axios ⁠reporter said in ⁠a post on X...

SEOUL, June 26 (Reuters) - South Korea will ​rapidly expand ‌its drone and counter-drone capabilities, including by ‌training ​500,000 "drone ⁠warriors" and ⁠acquiring more than 20,000 low-cost expendable drones, ​the Defence Ministry said ⁠on ⁠Friday....

TAIPEI, June 26 (Reuters) - Torrential rains from a passing typhoon shut down a swathe of southern Taiwan on Friday, leaving more than five million ​people off work or school and flooding severing ‌a section of a main rail line. Although Typhoon Mekkha...

June 26 (Reuters) - Power was fully or partially cut off across the Russian-held ​part of Ukraine's ‌Kherson region bordering Crimea, the Russian-installed governor, Vladimir Saldo, said on Telegram early on Friday. Saldo did ‌not ​provide details. In ...

June 25 (Reuters) - The number of confirmed Ebola cases ​in the ‌Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 1,155, including 304 ‌deaths, ​government ⁠data showed on ⁠Thursday. The number represented the total of confirmed cases as ​of Wednesday, ac...

June 25 (Reuters) - Two powerful earthquakes that struck the northern coast of Venezuela and capital Caracas on Wednesday claimed at least 188 lives, a toll that could increase as rescue teams comb the debris of collapsed buildings. Until now, the dead...

INGLEWOOD, California, June 25 (Reuters) - U.S. winger Christian Pulisic starts on the bench ​for a Group D ‌match in which the U.S. and Turkey make wholesale changes. • The Americans make nine changes ‌and ​Turkey seven. • ⁠The U.S. retain ⁠only Ricar...

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani and Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Ernie Clement finished Phase 1 of Major League Baseball's All-Star fan voting atop their respective leagues, making them automatic starters for the Midsummer Classic. Oht...

Juan Soto of the Mets was back in the starting lineup on Thursday night for New York's ​finale of a four-game series against ‌the visiting Chicago Cubs. Soto is batting third and serving as the designated hitter. Soto exited Tuesday's game after the ...

The Colorado Avalanche traded forward Valeri Nichushkin to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday in exchange for three draft picks, including one in ​this week's draft. Colorado received a 2026 second-round ‌pick from Columbus as well as a 2027 third-...

Portugal's Nuno Borges reached his first tour-level semifinal at a grass-court event with a 7-6 (1), 6-4 defeat of No. 1 seed Italian Luciano Darderi on Thursday at the Vanda Pharmaceuticals ​Mallorca Championships in Mallorca, Spain. Borges, who is t...

By Sam Li and Lewis Jackson BEIJING, June 26 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Friday morning and are heading for steep weekly losses amid easing supply concerns as more stranded oil tankers exited ​the Strait of Hormuz, even though a cargo vessel was ‌hi...

By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, June 26 (Reuters) - The yen tottered near its weakest level against the dollar in 40 years early in Asia on Friday as traders reined in bets for Federal Reserve rate hikes after U.S. inflation met ​forecasts and centr...

By Cynthia Kim and Yena Park SEOUL, June 26 (Reuters) - Over an 18-year career trading currencies in Seoul, Namkoong Taehun was on the front lines of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the post-Brexit plunge in the pound, and the won's dramatic tailspin ...

June 26 (Reuters) - Mining major BHP will split its President Americas role into two positions, President North ​America and President South ‌America, as part of the executive leadership team changes it announced on Friday. The move will allow a greate...

By Makiko Yamazaki and Leika Kihara TOKYO, June 26 (Reuters) - Annual core inflation in Japan's capital accelerated in June, data showed on Friday, a sign of broadening price pressures from the Middle East conflict that keeps the central ​bank on track...

DAKAR, June 25 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has imposed a 21-day quarantine for anyone returning from Ebola-affected areas before they ​can travel abroad, tightening controls after France ‌confirmed its first imported case linked to the...

By Jennifer Rigby and Emma Farge LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - As scientists race to understand the growing Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo, medics say knowledge gaps are still hampering detection and care for sick patients. Sin...

LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - Shares in Germany's Bayer surged ​by the ‌most in 23 years on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme ‌Court ​sided ⁠with the the ⁠company concerning lawsuits related its Roundup weedkiller. The Supreme Court ​reined in thousands of...

By Anait Miridzhanian and Sfundo Parakozov DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG, June 25 (Reuters) - Africa's top public health agency said on Thursday that funding needed to tackle the continent's Ebola ​outbreak was three times higher than an earlier ‌estimate, and n...

By Christy Santhosh, Padmanabhan Ananthan and Bhanvi Satija June 25 (Reuters) - German drugmaker Merck KGaA said on Thursday it would buy U.S. firm Bio-Techne for $11.3 billion, its biggest deal in more than a decade, betting on demand for complex drug...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - A biotech company and a U.S. government agency announced on Thursday a plan to create an archive of living cells and genomic material for every species protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in a...

By Aline Massuca and Victoria Pacheco RIO DE JANEIRO, June 24 (Reuters) - What is the secret to a long life? Three Brazilian sisters with a combined age of 316, who were named by Guinness this month as the ​oldest living trio of siblings in the world, ...

By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES, June 24 (Reuters) - Conservationists will return two maned wolves, rescued after the death of ​their mother, to the wild ‌next month in Argentina, where the long-legged wild canine is endangered. The conservation nonprofit...

By Pearl Josephine Nazare and Mohammed Benmansour VANCOUVER, June 23 (Reuters) - Soccer & Technology from the FIFA Museum, in its North American debut in Vancouver, has drawn hundreds of fans to Science World to study the game's ​evolution as organiser...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - Rocket and spacecraft maker Firefly Aerospace is expected to secure a $110 million U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) loan that would help fund the company's expansion of ​spacecraft production facilities in...

June 25 (Reuters) - Starlink, the satellite ​internet unit ‌of Elon Musk's SpaceX, said ‌on ​Thursday ⁠it will provide ⁠free services to its users in ​Venezuela for ⁠a ⁠month, after ​two earthquakes ​hit the South American ‌nation. The company is also ...

SEOUL, June 26 (Reuters) - Samsung Group will announce on Monday plans to invest 1,000 trillion won ($647.53 ​billion) in South Korea ‌over 10 years, including a potential 300 trillion won to build chip factories in the southwest of the country, a med...

June 25 (Reuters) - OpenAI is considering holding off on its public debut until next year, the New York Times reported ​on Thursday, citing three people involved ‌in the company's deliberations. The AI startup, which has confidentially filed for a U.S....

By Milana Vinn and Jaspreet Singh June 25 (Reuters) - ON Semiconductor Corp said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire Synaptics in an all-stock ​deal valued at about $7 billion, its largest ‌acquisition to date, as the chipmaker seeks to expand its p...

June 25 (Reuters) - Microsoft's Xbox is raising prices of its gaming consoles by up to $150 worldwide, citing a deepening global components crisis ​that has sent storage and memory costs ‌soaring across the consumer electronics industry. Groups represe...

By Danielle Broadway Los Angeles, June 25 (Reuters) - "The Invite," an American comedy film about complicated couples, debuts in U.S. theaters on Friday, exploring what happens when dysfunctional spouses ​get a steamy invite from their upstairs neighbo...

June 25 (Reuters) - Microsoft's Xbox is raising prices of its gaming consoles by up to $150 worldwide, citing a deepening global components crisis ​that has sent storage and memory costs ‌soaring across the consumer electronics industry. Groups represe...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday that all options remain on the table as it reviews whether to renew the licenses of eight Walt Disney-owned ABC television stations ...

NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) - Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday moved to drop a third-degree rape charge against Harvey Weinstein after the disgraced movie mogul's accuser said ​she did not want to testify in what ‌would have been a fourth trial. • Wei...

By Paul Sandle and Amy-Jo Crowley LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - Sky, the Comcast-owned British pay TV group, has agreed on terms to buy ITV's broadcast and streaming unit, ​two people familiar with the matter said, with ITV ‌acquiring "The Great British ...