Category Archives: Community News
Pair of Back-to-School Events Scheduled at the COP House
(KNSI) - The St. Cloud Community Outpost will have a pair of events in late August to ensure students are ready for the first day of school. The COP House is offering free haircuts for boys and girls ...
Aug 17, 2023 Photo from District 742 Facebook page
Bremer Bank Opens New Downtown Commercial Building
(KNSI) - The old St. Cloud City Hall site is once again bustling with activity. Bremer Bank held a grand opening at its new 20,000 square-foot building at the corner of 2nd Street South and 5th Avenue...
Aug 17, 2023 Photo submitted.
National Guard Unit Remembers W.O.C. Kort Plantenberg at Post Office Dedication
(KNSI) - A large crowd of friends, colleagues and fellow soldiers gathered Thursday to rename the Avon post office after Warrant Officer Candidate Kort Plantenberg. He was one of three Minnesota Natio...
Aug 17, 2023 KNSI News
Common Roots Festival Features Scores of Local Artists
(KNSI) - Live music will fill the streets of St. Cloud during the sixth annual Common Roots festival. Starting Thursday night, you won't be able to go downtown without hearing a melody connected to th...
Aug 17, 2023
Waite Park To Take First Steps To Clean PFAS From Contaminated Drinking Water
(KNSI) - Waite Park is taking its first steps to address per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, contamination in all three of its drinking wells. Public Works Director Bill Schluenz told KNSI ...
Aug 16, 2023 Pixabay
Air Alert Issued For Minnesota Due to Wildfire Smoke
(KNSI) - Candian wildfire smoke once again prompts an air quality alert for a large swath of the state, including central Minnesota. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says the alert is effective ...
Aug 16, 2023 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News
14 more members of Minneapolis gangs are charged in federal violent crime initiative
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Officials announced Wednesday that 14 members of Minneapolis-based gangs have been charged with crimes including possession of machine guns, fentanyl trafficking and firearms violat...
Aug 16, 2023 AP Photo/Steve Karnowski
District 742 Starting Online School Next Month
(KNSI) - For the first time, District 742 is letting kids go to class online for the 2023-24 school year. The Central Minnesota Virtual Academy is for 6th through 12th-grade kids and has been in the w...
Aug 16, 2023 Unsplash
Minnesota town to lose police after chief and officers resign, citing low pay
GOODHUE, Minn. (AP) - A small Minnesota town will soon be without a police department, an exodus spurred by low pay for the chief and his officers. Goodhue Police Chief Josh Smith and one other office...
Aug 15, 2023 Pixabay
Benton County Delays Decision On Banning Marijuana in Public
(KNSI) - Benton County is going to wait before making a decision on banning the use of recreational marijuana in public. The board of commissioners tabled a proposed ordinance to prohibit the use of m...
Aug 15, 2023 Unsplash