Jacob Newton

1 day ago | keloland.com | Jacob Newton

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Carlos Gabriel Rivero opened Tarquin, an Argentinian restaurant, five years ago. Since then, business has been pretty good, he told KELOLAND News on Wednesday. “The restaurant was very busy, so it allowed me to have a little extra money,” said Rivero, describing the period of 2025 since around Valentines Day.

2 days ago | keloland.com | Jacob Newton

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — “Several years ago, one of our officers wrote a citation to somebody that didn’t have their snake, physically contained — wrote a citation for the animal not being on a leash.”This happened in Falls Park in downtown Sioux Falls, explained Lead Animal Control Officer Thomas Rhoades of the Sioux Falls Police Department. It may sound ridiculous — you wouldn’t leash a snake — but it’s not necessarily about the leash.

3 days ago | keloland.com | Jacob Newton

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — During his State of the City address in early April, Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken touted a declining violent crime rate in 2024. At a rate of 5.65 violent crimes per 1,000 residents, the violent crime rate was at its lowest point since 2019, according to city data. “To see these numbers trending down is representative of what we kind of know — while the city’s getting bigger, we are getting busier. The volume is what drives a lot of that.

6 days ago | keloland.com | Jacob Newton

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — On April 1 two women, Jill Janecke and Abby Martinez, were announced as the two local winners of Nexstar’s Remarkable Women initiative. Janecke, of Pierre, spent the last 12 years building up Rising Hope Counseling, a mental health clinic, and Martinez, out of Jones County, is an elementary teacher in Murdo. The two were most recently a part of a large group of women who made their way to Los Angeles for the national Remarkable Women conference.

1 week ago | keloland.com | Jacob Newton

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Earth Day, held every year on April 22, was created 55 years ago in 1970. The official Earth Day site calls the founding of Earth Day, “the birth of the modern environmental movement.”Here in Sioux Falls, students at O’Gorman joined an estimated 20 million in the U.S. to help clean up their communities. Here in South Dakota, it was cold and snowy, but that didn’t stop them from their task. “Well there’s a lot of trash being dumped around the park,” said one student said.