Kelsie Passolt

Anchor

Sioux Falls

Kelsie Passolt anchors weeknight newscasts on Dakota News Now.

Kelsie is from Hayward, Wisconsin and moved to Sioux Falls in 2016 after her first job in broadcasting in Rockford, Illinois. Rockford is near where she went to college at Northern Illinois University, which is where Kelsie played NCAA Division 1 Women's Golf. Kelsie still loves playing golf to this day, so she’s happy to live in a thriving golf community like Sioux Falls!

Kelsie aims to be the best storyteller she can be, and she says she gets that opportunity at Dakota News Now. Kelsie loves telling stories that tug at people's heartstrings and stories that impact people's lives.

News

Someone You Should Know: Giving Young Warriors A Fighting Chance

Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 3:42 PM CDT

By Kelsie Passolt

Brandon dad raising thousands of dollars for MDA

News

Someone You Should Know: Putting importance of empathy on paper

Updated: Jul. 22, 2020 at 11:00 PM CDT

By Kelsie Passolt

A Brookings man who survived polio as a toddler has published a children's book that highlights the importance of empathy.

Latest News

Coronavirus

US adds 1.8 million jobs in a sign that hiring has weakened

Updated: 59 minutes ago

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

The United States added 1.8 million jobs in July, a pullback from the gains of May and June and evidence that the resurgent coronavirus is weakening hiring and the economic rebound.

National

Portland protesters cause mayhem again, police officer hurt

Updated: 1 hour ago

By Gillian Flaccus

Violent clashes this week between protesters and police in Portland, Oregon, have ratcheted up tensions in the city days after an agreement between state and federal officials appeared to bring calm.

News

Police: Two arrested for kidnapping, threatening subtenant

Updated: 1 hours ago

By Dakota News Now staff

Two people are behind bars after police say they kidnapped and threatened a man who was subletting their apartment.

National Politics

No stimulus checks, unemployment boost? Last-ditch virus aid talks as Trump team back to Capitol

Updated: 1 hours ago

By ANDREW TAYLOR

A breakdown in the talks would put at risk more than $100 billion to help reopen schools, a fresh round of $1,200 direct payments to most people and hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments to help them avoid furloughing workers and cutting services as tax revenues shrivel.

News

South Dakota reports 98 new COVID-19 cases, 3 new deaths

Updated: 2 hours ago

By Dakota News Now staff

The South Dakota Department of Health reported 98 new COVID-19 cases in state Friday and an additional three deaths.

Latest News

News

30 family members contract COVID-19 following Minnesota funeral

Updated: 3 hours ago

Thirty grieving members of a family in a small northwestern Minnesota town have contracted the coronavirus after attending a funeral for a loved one.

News

Iowa continuing unemployment claims fall

Updated: 3 hours ago

By Associated Press

More than 6,700 people filed unemployment claims last week in Iowa, and the number of continuing claims is nearly 105,000, a decrease of more than 5,000 from the previous week.

News

Thune at odds with Trump on White House acceptance speech

Updated: 5 hours ago

By Dakota News Now staff

Republican U.S. Sen. John Thune, of South Dakota, is at odds with President Donald Trump on whether the president’s nomination acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention should be delivered from the White House.

News

Authorities: Two Sioux Falls men charged with murder

Updated: 14 hours ago

Minnehaha County authorities arrested two Sioux Falls men they say killed 30-year-old Cody Allen Schmidt Sunday night.

National

Macron promises help, Beirut residents vent fury at leaders

Updated: 18 hours ago

By BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB

Lebanese officials targeted in the investigation of the massive blast that tore through Beirut sought to shift blame for the presence of explosives at the city’s port, and the visiting French president warned Thursday that without serious reforms the country would “continue to sink.”

News

CDC publishes Smithfield Foods COVID-19 report

Updated: 18 hours ago

By Beth Warden

Last May, it was reported just over 800 employees tested positive for COVID-19. Today's report read 929 employees. The number of those closely related to an employee differed by 35 individuals.