Sioux Falls officials release new population estimate
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO-AM) South Dakota's biggest city keeps getting bigger. The new estimated population of Sioux Falls is 169,800 people, 4,000 more souls than a year ago.City planning officials held...
View ArticlePolice say shooting happened on Louise Avenue
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls police say an unidentified male suffered a life-threatening gunshot wound last night on Louise Avenue.Police say the shooting happened near the Empire...
View ArticlePolice call teens armed and dangerous
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls police consider the suspects in last night’s shooting on South Louise Avenue as armed and dangerous.Officer Sam Clemens identifies them as 17-year-old Connor...
View ArticleSD Dems call again for expanding Medicaid
SIOUX FALLS, S.D (KELO AM) - Democratic lawmakers again today called on Governor Daugaard to expand Medicaid.Brookings Representative Spence Hawley says it would impact South Dakotans up to 138% of the...
View ArticleWinter Weather Advisories and Warnings issued
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) - The mild weather of the past two weeks will be a memory as colder air and snow return to the region over the weekend.A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for the Sioux...
View ArticleWinter weather returns to region
Sioux Falls, S.D. (KELO-AM) - The National Weather Service says winter storm warnings and advisories are in effect for much of the region tonight and Sunday. Expect deteriorating conditions through the...
View ArticleSnow Alert for the City of Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) - The Public Works Street Division has declared a snow alert. Plowing of emergency snow routes began at noon and will continue until routes are clear. All vehicles parked on...
View ArticleSunday Winter Storm update
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) - A Winter Storm Warning continues for southeast South Dakota, southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa until 6:00 this evening.Snow will begin to decrease late this morning and...
View ArticleSioux Falls shooting victim dies
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The victim in last Thursday’s shooting on South Louise Avenue, 18-year-old Anthony Lee Gabriel, died yesterday at Sanford Hospital.Lieutenant Matt Burns says 17-year-old...
View ArticleSF School Board candidate petitions available
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Candidates for two seats on the Sioux Falls School Board can pick up petitions for the April 14th election.District spokesman Ben Schumacher says the election is to fill...
View ArticleSoutheast South Dakota Regional Spelling Bee at USD
VERMILLION, S.D. (KELO AM) – More than two dozen students, representing 10 schools, will compete at the 2015 Southeast South Dakota Regional Spelling Bee at the University of South Dakota on Saturday,...
View ArticleThe Spellerberg Aquatics Center additional price tag in question
SIOUX FALLS (KELO AM) - The original $19.8 million budget for the future Sioux Falls Indoor Aquatics Center at Spellerberg Park was recently increased by another $3.9 million (Roughly 20-percent) ....
View ArticleConstruction permits on par with record year
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls Planning and Building issued just over $23 million in building permits last month, a bit higher than a year ago when the city began its climb to a...
View ArticleNoem's committee takes first whack at budget
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - President Obama and Congressional Republicans see a need to increase defense spending, upgrade a crumbling infrastructure and fix corporate taxes.But Congresswoman Kristi...
View ArticleLittle opposition to tax hike for roads and bridges
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - There was only one opponent in Pierre this morning to House Bill 1131, a $50 million dollar measure to fix roads and bridges in South Dakota.That opposition came from...
View ArticlePool controversy keeps getting deeper
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO-AM) The Spellerberg pool cost controversy keeps making waves in Sioux Falls.City Council Member Kermit Staggers says the voters should decide today whether an indoor pool should...
View ArticleOver a thousand snow alert cites issued
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Sioux Fall police issued 1,037 snow alert tickets in the last storm.Officer Sam Clemens says that’s about 200 fewer tickets than the last storm.Clemens says contrary to...
View ArticleDaylight or Standard time issues in Pierre
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - A bill to keep South Dakota in summer time hours year-round was doomed from the start in the House State Affairs Committee today.The bill exempted the state from Daylight...
View ArticleSF Police solved all homicides last year
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls Police have solved 47 of the last 48 homicides.Captain Blaine Larsen says last week's first Sioux Falls homicide of 2015 prompted investigators to review the...
View ArticleWatch Sioux Falls firefighters in the sculpter's hands
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO-AM) Sculpter Darwin Wolf will be at Avera's Prairie Cancer Center at selected times over the next month creating Sioux Falls' first firefighters memorial.Wolf, based in the Black...
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