Category Archives: Latest News
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Sheriff's Office To Enact Community Policing Agreement
(KNSI) - The Stearns County Sheriff's Office is entering into a community policing agreement with multiple community organizations. A signing ceremony will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday in the Ste...
Jake Judd May 19, 2021 Jake Judd (KNSI News)

American Pickers to Return to St. Cloud
(KNSI) - The popular History Channel docu-series American Pickers is coming back to St. Cloud. The series follows people known as pickers as they search for valuable antiques. American Pickers is look...
Jennifer Lewerenz May 19, 2021 Submitted Photo

Foley, Milaca Construction Businesses Bought By National Company
(KNSI) - A national construction company has purchased two East-Central Minnesota businesses. Foley Lumber and Milaca Building Center have been acquired by American Construction Source. Both facilitie...
Dene Dryden May 19, 2021 Photo by Marissa Daeger on Unsplash

Minnesota Nears Half of Population Vaccinated Against COVID-19, Reports 658 New Cases Wednesday
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health reports 658 new COVID-19 cases and 15 deaths from the disease on Wednesday. The five-county St. Cloud area sees no new deaths but adds 49 newly confirmed po...
Dene Dryden May 19, 2021 Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash

Minnesota's Medical Cannabis Expansion to Cut Costs for Users
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Those enrolled in Minnesota's medical marijuana program are expected to have a more affordable option to the liquid, oil and pills currently allowed under one of the nation's mo...
Associated Press May 19, 2021 Unsplash

Caribou Coffee and Best Buy Lift Mask Policies
(KNSI) - Two more Minnesota companies say they are relaxing their mask policies. Richfield-based Best Buy and Brooklyn Center-based Caribou Coffee both say their customers will not be required to wear...
Jennifer Lewerenz May 19, 2021 Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

Wildfire Has Burned 950 Acres in Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
(KNSI) - Lightning is believed to be the cause of a fire burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Behzik fire in the Trout Lake unit north of Tower was reported ...
Jennifer Lewerenz May 19, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News

Two Men Charged in Separate Assaults on Minneapolis Police
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Two men have been charged in separate assaults on police who had responded to fights in downtown Minneapolis over the weekend. The Hennepin County Attorney's Office said Tuesday tha...
Associated Press May 19, 2021 Pixabay

Police: Woman Tried to Run Over Two People, Used Taser During Brawl
(KNSI) - A woman was arrested after allegedly trying to run people over during a brawl in St. Cloud. Around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, officers were called to a fight in the 1000-block of 6th Avenue South...
Jake Judd May 18, 2021 KNSI News
Two Injured in Knife Fight in St. Cloud
(KNSI) - A 17-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man were taken to the hospital Tuesday after St. Cloud Police say multiple people got into a fight, and one of them had a knife. At 1:20 p.m. SCPD says off...
Dene Dryden May 18, 2021 KNSI News