Category Archives: KNSI Local News
Minnesota COVID-19 Positivity Rate Hits Vaccine-Era High
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota's COVID-19 test positivity rate soared to 8.3% as of Tuesday, the highest mark since vaccines first rolled out late last year. The seven-day rolling average for the st...
Oct 12, 2021 CentraCare/Facebook
Raising Cane's Opens In St. Cloud
(KNSI) - Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers opened its first store in Central Minnesota on Tuesday. The store opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. It's the first Cane's outside of the Twin Cities and th...
Oct 12, 2021 Submitted by Raising Cane's Jorge Saenz
Experts Warn of Sticker Shock for Home Heating Prices This Winter
(KNSI) - Experts are warning Minnesotans to get ready for major sticker shock for the upcoming heating season. Geoff Greenwood with the MidAmerican Energy company says it's not just Minnesotans who ar...
Oct 12, 2021 Unsplash
UPDATE: Upcoming Road Work to Close St. Cloud Streets
3:17 p.m. UPDATE: (KNSI) - Please be advised that on Thursday, October 14, 2021, weather permitting, the intersection of Plum Creek Drive and Kristin Lane will be closed to through traffic due to culv...
Oct 12, 2021 Stearns County Highway Department
Man Charged After Allegedly Pointing a Gun at a Woman and Threatening to Shoot Her
(KNSI) - A 23-year-old Sauk Rapids man was jailed after allegedly pointing a gun at a woman and threatening to kill her. According to the criminal complaint, Sauk Rapids police were called to an apart...
Oct 12, 2021 Pixabay
Beloved ROCORI Teacher and Coach Bob Brink Has Died
(KNSI) - A former ROCORI High School teacher and coach has died. 84-year-old Bob Brink passed away Saturday. He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, which, according to an obituary, he had bee...
Oct 12, 2021 MNBBCA
Sartell City Council Approves Purchase Agreement for 167 Acres of Land
(KNSI) - The Sartell City Council Monday night approved a purchase agreement for 167 acres of land currently owned by AIM Development, LLC. That same company bought the Verso Paper Mill site and the 1...
Oct 12, 2021 City of Sartell Facebook
Catholic Charities Looking For Sponsors to Adopt Families for Christmas
(KNSI) - A St. Cloud based non-profit says it needs the community to make sure every family can enjoy Christmas. The Share the Spirit program is sponsored by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. C...
Oct 11, 2021 Pixabay
Attorney Suggests Mechanical Failure in Crash That Killed Two
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The attorney for a man accused in connection with a car crash that killed the son of the University of Minnesota men's hockey coach and another young man said Monday that mechanical...
Oct 11, 2021 Bob Motzko Twitter
BCA: Missing Woman Found Safe
UPDATE: 3:30 p.m. - (KNSI) The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says Abbey Piner has been located safe. The Aitkin County Sheriff's Office would like to thank everyone for their assistance. N...
Oct 11, 2021 Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension