Category Archives: Latest News
Investigators Looking Into Suspicious Grass Fires, Public's Help Needed
(KNSI) - Investigators ask for the public's help catching an arsonist who's setting grass fires in Benton County. The sheriff's office says firefighters have responded to seven fires burning in road d...
Apr 01, 2021 KNSI News
Coborn's Opening New Store in Buffalo
(KNSI) - A grocery store chain based in St. Cloud is opening a new location in Buffalo. Coborn's, Inc. announced plans for a Coborn's Marketplace grocery store along the Highway 55 and Highway 25 corr...
Apr 01, 2021
MDH Recommends School Kids, Families Get Tested Every Two Weeks During School
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health recommends all school-age kids and their families get tested for COVID-19 every two weeks until the end of the school year. Kids involved in any extracurric...
Apr 01, 2021 Minnesota Department of Health/Facebook
St. Cloud Based Law Firm Expanding
(KNSI) - A St. Cloud based law firm has merged with a Long Prairie practice. Quinlivan & Hughes has combined with the Brown, Krueger & Vancura Law. The merger went into effect on April 1st. Th...
Apr 01, 2021 Jake Judd (KNSI)
Minnesota Reports More than 2,000 New COVID Cases for First Time Since January
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting the state's biggest one-day new COVID-19 case count since January. On Thursday, MDH confirms 2,140 new cases and 12 deaths statewide. For the S...
Apr 01, 2021
St. Cloud Man Charged After Authorities Find Over 3 Pounds of Meth in Search
(KNSI) - A 48-year-old St. Cloud man is currently in jail for drug and weapons charges after authorities say he was selling methamphetamine in St. Cloud and Onamia. A criminal complaint says the Centr...
Apr 01, 2021 Stearns County Jail
Grant Round Opens for Projects Supporting St. Cloud Area Youth
(KNSI) - The application period is now open for the Thomas Ritsche Youth Grant through the Central Minnesota Community Foundation. The funds go toward projects and programs that impact youth, especial...
Apr 01, 2021 Unsplash
MDH Updates Assisted Living Facility Guidance for Dining, Social Activities
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health has updated its guidance for dining and activities in assisted living facilities, citing fewer COVID-19 cases in recent weeks among residents, most of whom ...
Apr 01, 2021
COVID-19 Hospitalizations Begin to Climb in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota cases and hospitalizations driven by coronavirus variants in recent weeks continue to steadily climb, even as officials make progress on the state's vaccination efforts. J...
Apr 01, 2021 Unsplash
COVID Third Most Common Cause of Death in 2020
(KNSI/Metro Source) - New data shows COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020. 375,000 people died of the virus in the country last year. The National Center for Health Statis...
Mar 31, 2021 Pixabay