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As of today, eight states across the country have banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
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🎈 Happy Birthday Dot! The oldest living U.S. Marine celebrated her 107th birthday in North Carolina on Saturday. She joined the Marine Corps during World War II in 1943.
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Governor Kristi Noem announced Wednesday the state of South Dakota will not be taking any “illegal immigrants” who the Biden Administration wants to relocate.
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Incumbent Governor Kristi Noem has seized the Republican Primary spot in the November general election.
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Republican Kristi Noem set a South Dakota record Tuesday for most votes received by a candidate for governor with 217,014.
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Ann Turner Cook was only 4 months old when she became famous as the original Gerber baby. She turns 94 on Friday. According to the company’s website, Gerber held a contest in 1928 to find a face to represent their baby food.
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It took 14 years, but DNA was able to confirm that Ernie LaPointe of South Dakota is Sitting Bull's great-grandson.
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Noem has directed that all offices, agencies, departments under her control in state government’s executive branch no longer engage in technology purchases or contracts with any business owned or controlled by a person, entity or government from 6 nations.
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The Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservations together make up an area of around 7,700 square miles. Governor Kristi Noem is now banned from both.
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SDDP: “Governor Noem is always quick to comment on controversial issues, but when she has the opportunity to condemn racism in our state, her silence speaks volumes. South Dakota deserves a leader who will stand up to hate and intolerance.”
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The National Parks Service has denied Gov. Kristi Noem’s latest application for a permit to have fireworks at Mount Rushmore.
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Terry Peak said it has received 56 inches to 62 inches in the past 72 hours.
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Jamie Smith, the Democratic nominee for governor and former teacher himself said the day after the draft of the new standards was released that he didn’t feel teachers were being respected.
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A SD doctor cited anti-transgender legislation as part of the reason he chose to practice medicine elsewhere. "It's almost offensive in a way, that these legislators are coming in and saying that they know better than I do or than my colleagues do."
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It's the scene that made us all cheer. Video of 22-year-old woman's rescue from building collapse in downtown Sioux Falls. #KELONews
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“Taxpayers have a right to know where their tax dollars are being spent,” said Republican Representative Taffy Howard.
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In a 500-plus word social media post, a Sioux Falls man is requesting his image be removed from Governor Kristi Noem’s latest attack ad.
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Gavin Weir threw a no-hitter to lead South Dakota Little League to their first win of the World Series.
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says nationally, schools need to stop teaching children to hate their country. Monday, the governor turned to social media to announce she’s the first candidate in America to sign ‘The 1776 Pledge to Save Our Schools.’
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Two dozen Native Americans on horseback arrived at the South Dakota Capitol front lawn on Saturday to the sounds of a tribal drumbeat and welcoming cries for an annual ceremony of remembrance honoring missing and murdered indigenous women and children.
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As South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem pushes schools to reopen, a fundraising email from her campaign says she is discouraging school districts from requiring masks and telling parents they should send their kids to school without masks.
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A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration.
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South Dakota lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously approved a report finding that Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter got preferential treatment while she was applying for a real estate appraiser’s license in 2020.
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A fifth Native American tribe that has land within South Dakota has banned Gov. Kristi Noem in 2024.
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🏳️‍🌈South Dakota is celebrating Pride month with festivals, parades and performances throughout June. Here’s a look at the local events across the state for 2023:
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JUST IN: Dakota Wesleyan University President Amy Novak announced on Twitter that the NAIA changed their decision and will allow Kamberlyn Lamer to compete.
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JUST IN: Avera Health just announced that it will be requiring full vaccination for all physicians, employees and volunteers by December 1, 2021. The mandate will also apply to students at Avera facilities, contractors and vendors.
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“South Dakota has an opportunity to pitch in and help this country solve a serious problem and when we refuse to do that it breaks my heart that other people are taking away the opportunity for us to be able to help others,” said Remi Bald Eagle.
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The Smith family recently moved from Oregon to South Dakota. They moved for a lot of reasons, but mostly, they say, for their freedom.
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A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license that it could take action against her.
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Mount Rushmore officials say yesterday on the Fourth of July, all parking lots were filled and lines to get into the memorial spread all the way to Keystone.
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A South Dakota doctor who specializes in infectious diseases has a message for Governor Kristi Noem. He is begging her to do more to protect not only health care workers but South Dakotans. Hear from that doctor, COMING UP at 5:30 on #KELONews
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The CDC’s website updated late last week says, “it is possible that COVID-19 may spread through the droplets and airborne particles that are formed when a person who has COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or breathes.”
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Just a few months after Governor Kristi Noem used a private donation to send South Dakota National Guard troops to the southern border, the U.S. House Armed Services Committee has voted to ban states from using private funds for National Guard deployments.
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“I’m sure he’s not really liking all the publicity right now but, I mean, cops like him deserve to be recognized,” Paige Martin, sister of the now viral Sioux Falls Police officer who finished a DoorDash delivery after the driver was arrested, said.
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Hey! We recognize those clips and the videographer. 👀 KELOLAND Chief Photojournalist Kevin Kjergaard was featured on CBS Sunday Morning
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Do Nothing For Two Minutes Take a minute, turn up the volume as we take you to the sights and sound of autumn at Spearfish Canyon, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Videographer: Kevin Kjergaard.
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Some people are wondering whether gas prices would be cheaper had the Keystone XL pipeline been built. The short answer, according to the State Department, is no, American production of oil would not impact what Americans pay at the pump.
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More than 600 protests took place across the country today against the Texas abortion law... Including one in Sioux Falls. We take you to the march and talk with participants about what today means to them, coming up on #KELONews .
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The last time South Dakota voters elected a Democrat as governor was 1974. An uphill battle faces Jamie Smith as he runs for governor this year as he tries to break the Republicans’ streak of 11 consecutive victories.
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The 2024 Sioux Falls Pride Parade and Festival had a record turnout on Saturday with roughly 15,000 people, said President of Sioux Falls Pride Rachel Polan.
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Emergency supplies have arrived in Rosebud, South Dakota as residents continue to struggle with the winter weather.
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South Dakota school administrators are starting to speak out against the proposed changes to social studies standards announced this week by the Department of Education. That story, coming up at 5 on KELOLAND News.
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A bill from the Minnesota Legislature proposes individual Minnesota counties be allowed to vote to secede from the state, and join a neighboring state.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, making him the first former president to be convicted of a felony.
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The National Park Service rejected Governor Kristi Noem’s request to have fireworks at the Mount Rushmore Memorial on July 4, 2022.
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Berneice was born near Spirit Lake, Iowa, in 1915. She was a school teacher for 42 years in Iowa before retiring and moving to Sioux Falls with her husband in 1978. Sunday, her neighbors threw her a birthday party to celebrate 106 years.
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On Tuesday, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council voted unanimously to forbid the South Dakota governor from traveling to the reservation and stepping foot onto their land.
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The former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has made a large donation to a non-profit that helps the elder in western KELOLAND. MacKenzie Scott, a billionaire author and philanthropist, is giving $1.5 million to Meals on Wheels in Western South Dakota.
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"The election was won and lost fairly and squarely," Thune said. "There are always incidents of irregularities and fraud as there are in every election, but nothing on a level that would have changed any outcome in any state."
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While South Dakotans are allowed to drive at the age of 14, as of August 1, children in Minnesota aren’t allowed to sit in the front seat until they’re 13. .
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Jimmy Gordon has managed restaurants and nightclubs in Las Vegas and Nashville, Tennessee. Last fall, he was tired of not working. He heard South Dakota had avoided a shutdown for the most part and decided to check it out.
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Milbank native Kalen DeBoer has been named the new head coach at the University of Alabama, according to multiple reports.
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The South Dakota Democratic Party on Monday night announced that all 20 delegates have endorsed Harris.
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The event hosted by the Downtown Sioux Falls Rotary was intended to be a debate between all three gubernatorial candidates but only Jamie Smith accepted the invitation.
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FINAL from Waco: USD advances on to the Sweet 16 with a massive upset over Baylor!
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A U.S. District Court has granted a temporary restraining order halting Gov. Noem’s medical-abortion rule from going into effect on Thursday. The details ahead on KELOLAND News.
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Thousands of people from Sioux Falls and surrounding communities gathered to celebrate the 2023 Pride Parade and Festival.
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Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken posted on X recently condemning recent remarks made against Haitian people.
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In a news release on Thursday, Sanford Health said all employees with Sanford and the Good Samaritan Society will be required to get vaccinated to “ensure the safest possible environment for patients, residents and staff during the pandemic.”
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House Minority Leader Jamie Smith is running to become South Dakota’s first Democratic governor in decades. Smith, a former teacher who now works in real estate, said good government starts at the top.
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem made political-oriented trips valued at more than $98,000 to places outside South Dakota during 2021 and the first half of 2022.
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JUST IN: There will be no Fourth of July fireworks at Mount Rushmore, a federal judge has ruled.
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JUST IN: University of South Dakota graduate Chris Nilsen has won a silver medal in the pole vault at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Starting next week, students and staff in the Huron School District will be required to wear masks.
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A fundraising campaign to help North Dakota’s sole abortion clinic move a few miles away to Minnesota has raised more than half a million dollars in less than three days.
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The company announced on Christmas that its fundraising efforts, which started just over a week ago, surpassed $6 million from 57,404 different donors.
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“I know today, with every being, ounce of me, that it was God that protected me. Not only did he have angels hold that semi up and that semi was not allowed to go any further, he protected me within that vehicle," SD Highway Patrol Sgt. Chris Lindner said.
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Native Americans from South Dakota would be able to hunt or fish anywhere in the state for free and visit or camp in state parks without paying fees under two bills under consideration by the state Legislature.
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South Dakota has now become the only state to decline federal funding for home energy rebates and democratic leaders are voicing their disappointment with Gov. Kristi Noem rejecting the $68 million.
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Smith, the Democratic nominee challenging Noem, called for a special prosecutor to “investigate the extent to which Governor Noem engaged in misconduct.”
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Governor Kristi Noem will speak at the Republican National Convention on Monday.
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Documents obtained from the deployment of South Dakota National Guard troops cast doubt on the "war zone" at the border that Gov. Kristi Noem described last year.
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About 60 Lincoln High School students, holding signs and LGBTQ-plus pride banners, lined Cliff Avenue Wednesday afternoon after walking out of class to protest the state’s new transgender law for women’s and girls’ sports.
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"I am working in the COVID unit, I can look out the window, and I see protesters, and I'm sitting here holding oxygen up to someone's face, and they're gasping for air, and I can just look out the window and I can see signs that are just falsehoods."
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KELOLAND Media Group is saying good-bye to veteran anchor and investigative journalist Angela Kennecke. Kennecke is leaving to devote her energies to Emily’s Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the opioid epidemic.
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The Congregational United Church of Christ in Mitchell is holding steadfast in their support for the LGBTQ community, despite the multiple attacks against their building.
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Friends and family are remembering Angela Heinz, a 24-year-old from Ipswich who died in a climbing accident in the Black Hills last weekend.
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The governor’s ever-changing proposal to protect K-12 students in South Dakota’s public schools from ‘divisive concepts’ has been blocked. The Senate Education Committee voted 4-3 Thursday to kill HB 1337.
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“After a long discussion, it was decided to allow a season for American Legion baseball in South Dakota, which will obviously include certain guidelines,” American Legion Athletic Commission’s Dan Sudbeck said.
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Governor Kristi Noem faces two ethics complaints, and the deadline to respond is one week away. We review the cases on #KELONews at 6.
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13 Republicans voted with Democrats to block President Donald Trump's emergency declaration for a border wall. Rep. Dusty Johnson was one of them. Here's why:
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The 2022 election is less than a month away and the Downtown Sioux Falls Rotary is hosting a discussion next week for candidates running for governor. So far, only Representative Jamie Smith has accepted the invite.
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A judge has again blocked a trigger law banning abortion in North Dakota as he weighs a lawsuit from the state’s lone abortion clinic.
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May 5th is recognized as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. South Dakota Urban Indian Health is hosting a red candle vigil Thursday to spread awareness and offer support to families who have lost a loved one.
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Another South Dakota tribe has formally banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem.
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Breaking: The Crow Creek Sioux tribal council today unanimously decided to ban South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem from the Crow Creek Reservation. Council member Kyle Loudner and chairman Peter Lengkeek confirm the ban #KELONews
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Two additional Native American tribes in South Dakota have banned Gov. Kristi Noem (R) from their reservations after she said earlier this year that tribal leaders benefited from drug cartels.
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When it comes to the subject of mass gun violence, Brian Bengs, a democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, says action must be taken. “We must do something because there’s too many people dying... At a minimum, common sense background checks.”
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"I've worked for four years in seven events, and I had to specialize in all of those events and get techniques perfect in all of them to get where I am and now, they just took it away from me," Kamberlyn Lamer said.
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June is Pride Month and for the first time ever, a Pride Parade will be in Rapid City. The parade is the Black Hills Pride Parade.
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Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D) greeted President Donald Trump shortly after he landed at Ellsworth Air Force Base. Stick with #KELONews for our live team coverage from the Black Hills.
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JUST IN: The United States Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit against the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City.
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After several controversial appearances, Governor Kristi Noem abruptly canceled at least two national interviews on her book tour.
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