Category Archives: KNSI Local News
Rox Foundation Teams Up With School District to Help Kids Read
(KNSI) - A local charitable group is sponsoring a new pilot program to encourage kids to read. The St. Cloud Rox Project S.A.V.E. Foundation and St. Cloud Area School District 742 have launched the R....
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Justice Department Reviewing Policies on Transgender Inmates
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Justice Department official tells The Associated Press that the department is reviewing its policies on housing transgender inmates in the federal prison system. Protections for tr...
Sep 17, 2021 Ford County Sheriff's Office via Associated Press
Medical Experts Warn of Flu Season Outbreak, Advises Getting Flu Vaccine
(KNSI) - Medical experts are worried this year's flu season could be the worst in years. Coborn's Pharmacist Jason Miller tells KNSI News why more people could get the flu this year. "Because we didn'...
Sep 17, 2021 Associated Press
St. Cloud Student Starts Petition To Bring Back Powderpuff Games
(KNSI) - An online petition asks that administrators in the St. Cloud Area School District allow a tradition to continue. St. Cloud Apollo High School student Aidan Kuhn started the petition on Change...
Sep 17, 2021 Jake Judd/KNSI News
Enbridge Ordered to Pay $3 Million for Groundwater Leak
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota regulators have ordered Enbridge to pay more than $3 million for allegedly violating state environmental law by piercing a groundwater aquifer during construction of t...
Sep 17, 2021 Unsplash
Freedom Rock Mural To Be Dedicated In Big Lake Saturday
(KNSI) - A tribute to military men and women in Central Minnesota will be dedicated on Saturday. Big Lake is home to one of nearly 100 Freedom Rocks painted by artist Ray "Bubba" Sorensen. Sorensen pa...
Sep 17, 2021 Big Lake Police Department Facebook
Minnesota High Court OKs Ballot Question on Minneapolis PD
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Supreme Court has cleared the way for Minneapolis to vote on the future of policing in the city where George Floyd was killed. The state's highest court overturned a l...
Sep 17, 2021
MDH: Private School in St. Cloud Has at Least Five COVID Cases
(KNSI) - A private school in St. Cloud has been added to the Minnesota Department of Health list of buildings that have reported five or more COVID-19 cases in a two-week span. Prince of Peace Luthera...
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Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued for Stearns County
(KNSI) - A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for Central Stearns County until 730 PM CDT. At 648 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Paynesville, or 26 miles northeast of Willmar,...
Sep 16, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued
(KNSI) - The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Northern Benton County, Northcentral Stearns County and Southern Morrison County in central Minnes...
Sep 16, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News