Category Archives: Latest News
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Local Senator Introduces Legislation Allowing Residents and Non-Residents to Hunt Without a License
(KNSI) - Rockville Senator Jeff Howe introduced legislation that would allow residents and non-residents under the age of 18 to take small game or fish without a license, provided they have a firearms...
Jennifer Lewerenz Mar 22, 2021 Unsplash

Wright County Authorities Investigating Two Deaths in Rockford
(KNSI) - The Wright County Sheriff's Office is investigating the deaths of two people in Rockford on Friday. The sheriff's office says deputies arrived at a home in the 4000 block of Woodhill Court ar...
Dene Dryden Mar 21, 2021 Photo by Matt Popovich on Unsplash

St. Cloud To Vote On Bids to Relocate City Hall
(KNSI) - After a year delay, St. Cloud could approve moving city hall to the old Tech High School on Monday. The St. Cloud City council will vote on a resolution to demolish the part of the school bui...
Jake Judd Mar 21, 2021 City of St. Cloud

Dassel Man Seriously Injured After Rollover Crash
(KNSI) - A Dassel man suffered life-threatening injuries after being ejected from his car in a rollover crash Saturday morning. The Minnesota State Patrol reports that the 26-year-old driver was trave...
Dene Dryden Mar 20, 2021 Unsplash

Minnesota's COVID-19 Case Growth Connected to B117 Variant, MDH Says
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota health officials suspect that a coronavirus variant is driving a recent increase in the state's case rate. Infectious Disease Director Kris Ehresmann said during a media b...
Associated Press Mar 19, 2021 Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

Food Drive Raises More Than $23,000
(KNSI) - Catholic Charities Emergency Services Food Shelf is grateful and overwhelmed by the community's response to the 11th annual Pack the Porches Food Drive. The food shelf raised $23,011 and coll...
Jake Judd Mar 19, 2021 Jake Judd/KNSI News

Increased Fire Risk in Central Minnesota
(KNSI) - State officials are warning about the increased risk of grassfires in Central Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says Stearns, Benton, Sherburne, Wright, and Morrison Co...
Jake Judd Mar 19, 2021 Pixabay

Minnesota Man Charged in Connection to U.S. Capitol Insurrection
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Federal prosecutors have charged a Minnesota man in connection with the U.S. Capitol siege. The U.S. attorney's office tweeted Friday that 31-year-old Jordan K. Stotts with trespass...
Associated Press Mar 19, 2021 Phillip Roulain on Pixabay
Minnesota to Receive $81 Million from Tobacco Companies After Resolving Settlement Dispute
(KNSI) - On Tuesday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that the state will receive $81 million in back payments from two tobacco companies as required by a 1998 agreement. That tobacc...
Dene Dryden Mar 19, 2021

St. John's University Releases Spectator Policy
(KNSI) - The athletics department at St. John's University is releasing a spectator policy for the 2021 spring and fall to spring sports. Masks will be required at all times, even outside, and social ...
Jennifer Lewerenz Mar 19, 2021 Jbiasi at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons