Category Archives: Latest News
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MDH Unveils Race, Ethnicity Data of COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients
(KNSI) - On Friday, the Minnesota Department of Health published COVID-19 vaccination data that details vaccine recipients' race and ethnicity. The data show that white Minnesotans are disproportionat...
Dene Dryden Mar 05, 2021 Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash

Belgrade Woman Killed After Crash With Semi
UPDATE: 4:30 PM---The Minnesota State Patrol has identified the victim as 82-year-old Marilyn Joan Hagen (KNSI) - A Belgrade woman was killed after crashing head-on into a semi in Kandiyohi County. Th...
Jake Judd Mar 05, 2021

Rox Sign Sauk Rapids Graduate
(KNSI) - The latest players to sign with the St. Cloud Rox include a Sauk Rapids native. Left-handed pitcher Brady Posch graduated from Sauk Rapids-Rice High School in 2019. He led his team with a 1.8...
Jake Judd Mar 05, 2021

One COVID-19 Death, 66 New Cases Recorded Around St. Cloud Friday
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health reports 813 new cases of COVID-19 and 13 deaths statewide today. The death count includes one person from Sherburne County in their 70s. In the five-county ...
Dene Dryden Mar 05, 2021 Unsplash

Anglers To Keep Fewer Sunfish On Several Area Lakes
(KNSI) - New sunfish regulations go into effect on the Sauk River Chain of Lakes in Stearns County this year. The changes will mean anglers can only take 10 sunfish a day rather than the statewide lim...
Jake Judd Mar 05, 2021 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Man Creates Public Tracking Document to Help People Find COVID-19 Vaccines
(KNSI) - Finding an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine is proving difficult for some Minnesota seniors, and a new public vaccine tracking document has popped up to help them out. The document was crea...
Jennifer Lewerenz Mar 05, 2021 Unsplash
Appeals Court Rules Chauvin's Third-Degree Murder Charge Can Be Reinstated
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday ordered a judge to reconsider adding a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's deat...
Associated Press Mar 05, 2021

St. Cloud Hospital Ranks Among Best in the U.S.
(KNSI) - St. Cloud Hospital is being recognized as one of the best hospitals in the country on Newsweek's 2021 World's Best Hospitals list. "Newsweek", along with Statista, which is a global data mark...
Jennifer Lewerenz Mar 05, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz

Minnesota Launches Permanent COVID-19 Vaccination Site at Roy Wilkins Auditorium
(KNSI) - The state is launching another COVID-19 community vaccination site, this time in St. Paul. The clinic at Roy Wilkins Auditorium is expected to dole out 5,850 doses of the vaccine to eligible ...
Dene Dryden Mar 05, 2021 Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks to Minneapolis VA Hospital Director Patrick Kelly after over doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to the hospital Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP, Pool)
Minneapolis, Hennepin County Spending $1 Million on Security Ahead of Chauvin Trial
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minneapolis and Hennepin County officials will spend at least $1 million to put up fences and other barricades ahead of the trial for the former officer charged with murder in the d...
Associated Press Mar 05, 2021