WATCH: Mayor 'Tex' Huether ready for Garth and Trisha!
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Sporting a tan cowboy hat, a checkered button western shirt, blue jeans and brown cowboy books, Mayor Mike "Tex" Huether is ready for the onslaught of nine Garth Brooks...
View ArticleGarth and Trisha are here in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) Country Superstar Couple Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood came to Sioux Falls Friday to open an unprecedented run of nine sold-out concerts.Garth says he could have done...
View ArticleNew Augie President, nurturing the "good soil"
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) Augustana University made history on Friday, inaugurating Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, its first female president.The former Democratic Congresswoman referenced the Parable...
View ArticleMinnehaha County searching for inmate
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - The Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office is searching for Kai Conrad Hansen.Hansen escaped from the County Corrections Facility on Russel Street Friday night. Just after 9...
View ArticleWATCH: One on one with Garth Brooks
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Garth Brooks has a sense of humor.In an interview Friday with KELO.com News after just arriving, the country legend answered in good fun a number of serious and silly...
View ArticleGov. Daugaard Awards Equipment Grants To Tech Schools
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) – Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced Thursday he is awarding over $860,000 in Future Funds to fund equipment needs in Build Dakota-eligible programs at South Dakota’s four technical...
View ArticleWATCH: One on one with Trisha Yearwood
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- She's half of a superstar couple that gets to work side by side with her spouse.Country music and celebrity TV chef Trisha Yearwood, like her husband Garth Brooks, is a...
View ArticleSioux Falls man charged in Black Hills murder
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Thomas P. Lucero, Jr., 26, of Sioux Falls, has been indicted by a Fall River County Grand Jury on one count of first degree murder, one count of second degree murder, and one...
View ArticleLISTEN: South Dakota counselor's Harvey stories
YANKTON, S.D. (KELO.com) Red Cross Volunteer Terry Crandall is now back in Yankton after spending weeks as a counselor in Texas helping Hurricane Harvey victims process the tragedy."Almost everyone...
View ArticleNew initiative to keep South Dakota students at home
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) South Dakota is going proactive to encourage more top high school students to stay in the state for their higher education.The State Board of Regents will be mailing out letters...
View ArticleMarty Jackley bites into Colorado Cake Case
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley (R) has joined a coalition of Republican Attorneys General supporting a Colorado cake maker's refusal to make a wedding cake for a...
View ArticleWATCH/PHOTOS: "Garth Friday" even better than "Black Friday"?
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Don't think Garth Brooks playing nine concerts in Sioux Falls over two weekends isn't a big economic boost?Don't tell that to Renegade Western Wear's Troy Weyhrich,...
View ArticleThe Denny celebrates its (almost) third birthday
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Happy almost third birthday, Sanford PREMIER Center! The venue actually celebrates October 3 as its "birthday," because that's the date country star Jason Aldean played...
View ArticleTimely tips from Jackley on Equifax fiasco
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) State Attorney General Marty Jackley is offering advice to tens of thousands of South Dakotans who may be at risk in the massive Equifax data breach.First things first so...
View ArticleWATCH: Mayor Huether on Big Sioux buffer strips
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- It flows by placidly as it has for eons on one of the last hot and humid days of the waning summer.Just don't jump into the Big Sioux River if you need to cool off.That...
View ArticleSioux Falls woman claims record lotto jackpot
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Lynda Blesi’s patience was a virtue as her years of playing Dakota Cash paid off in a big way.Blesi is now the Dakota Cash game’s top winner after claiming her $614,181 jackpot...
View ArticleCouncil gets creative, passes 2018 budget
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls' 2018 budget of just over $457 million is good to go after a 7-1 vote from the City Council on Tuesday with one small tweak.On the recommendation of Pat...
View ArticleRep. DiSanto learns that "all memes matter"
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Rep. Lynne DiSanto, a Republican from Box Elder, has learned something the hard way--all memes matter.After posting a Facebook meme showing a car running over protestors...
View ArticleSTI takes universities on fall enrollment
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- While enrollment at South Dakota's six public universities stayed flat for the fall, enrollment really jumped at Southeast Tech in Sioux Falls.Enrollment at the tech...
View ArticleAUDIO: Sioux Falls Chamber takes on anti-immigration speakers
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) The Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce has praised the city's growing diversity in the wake of recent speakers in the state talking about immigrants and refugees.The...
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