Category Archives: KNSI Local News
State: 98% Occupancy Rate in Hospital Intensive Care Units
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The number of people hospitalized in intensive care in Minnesota has reached the highest level yet during the coronavirus pandemic. The state is reporting a 98% occupancy rate in ad...
Dec 07, 2021 Unsplash
Legislation Introduced to Rename Post Offices in Honor of Three Fallen Soldiers
(KNSI) - Two Minnesota senators and two local Congressional representatives have introduced legislation to rename three post offices in honor of fallen Minnesota National Guardsmen. Warrant Officer Ca...
Dec 07, 2021 Minnesota National Guard
St. Cloud Approves 2022 Budgets
(KNSI) - St. Cloud has approved its operating and enterprise budgets for 2022 at Monday night's city council meeting. The council voted for a $79 million operating budget and a $50.8 million enterpris...
Dec 06, 2021 Jake Judd (KNSI News)
Police: School Threats Investigation Forwarded to County Attorney
(KNSI) - Investigators have turned their findings over to prosecutors after a 14-year-old student allegedly threatened to kill students and staff at Sauk Rapids Middle School. Sauk Rapids Police Cheif...
Dec 06, 2021 Sauk Rapids Police Department/Facebook
Jury Instructions Sewn Up in Trial Over Daunte Wright Death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Attorneys and a judge hammered out jury instructions Monday for the trial of a white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright, with the judge denying d...
Dec 06, 2021 Court TV, via AP, Pool
Arradondo, Minneapolis Chief Amid Floyd Fallout, to Retire
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced Monday that he won't accept a third term as chief, a blow to a department that has been reeling since four officers were charged...
Dec 06, 2021 Associated Press
Minnesota National Guard deployed to area long-term care facilities.
(KNSI) - The first three National Guard skilled-nursing response teams have been deployed to support long-term care facilities facing severe staffing shortages. According to a press release issued Mon...
Dec 06, 2021 Unsplash
Positive CWD test on Minnesota deer leads to management changes.
(KNSI) - A newly discovered instance of chronic wasting disease in the Brainerd Lakes area will result in three more years of sampling and other disease management efforts for that area. One of the 1,...
Dec 06, 2021 Unsplash
MN Launching Plan to Help Nursing Homes Get Workers
(KNSI) - Minnesota has a new plan to get at least 1,000 new nurses into long-term care facilities by the end of January. Governor Tim Walz announced the initiative to recruit and pay to train nursing ...
Dec 06, 2021 Georg Arthur Pflueger/Unsplash
St. Cloud Area School District Extending Winter Break
(KNSI) - The St. Cloud Area School District is extending its winter break for staff and students to two full weeks. The three-day extension now includes December 20, 21 and 22, with school resuming on...
Dec 06, 2021