Category Archives: KNSI Local News
Minnesota State Patrol Purged Messages After George Floyd Riots and Protests
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota State Patrol purged emails and text messages immediately after protests over the death of George Floyd last year, according to testimony in a lawsuit that alleges the ...
Sep 07, 2021 AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File
Two Children Hospitalized After Being Pulled From a Minneapolis Lake
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Two children were rushed to a hospital after they were pulled from a Minneapolis lake on Monday. The Minneapolis Fire Department said on Twitter that one of the kids is 11 and one i...
Sep 07, 2021 Unsplash
District Acknowledges Decline in State Assessments Due To Pandemic, Making Plans To Recover Lost Ground
(KNSI) - As another school year begins, the St. Cloud Public School District acknowledges its student assessment test scores were lower than desired and vowed to work to improve. The Minnesota Departm...
Sep 07, 2021 Unsplash
New Fire Chief Cites Department's Exceptional Reputation For Taking Job
(KNSI) - St. Cloud's newest fire chief is exchanging the beaches of Florida for the lakes of Minnesota. Fort Myers Beach Fire Chief Matt Love will take over the 70-person St. Cloud Fire Department in ...
Sep 06, 2021 Submitted by Love Family
Drivers Watch For Buses as School Year Begins
(KNSI) - The traditional start of the school year is here, which means a return to the familiar yellow buses around town every morning and afternoon. St. Cloud Area School District 742 Executive Direc...
Sep 06, 2021 Unsplash
Minnesota National Guard Soldiers Leave Hamid Karzai International Airport
Originally posted September 1st. Updated September 5th to include pictures taken from the mission. (KNSI) - Minnesota National Guard troops have left Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afgha...
Sep 05, 2021 Minnesota National Guard via AP
St. Katharine Drexel School in St. Cloud Identifies Several Positive COVID Cases Just Days Into the New School Year
(KNSI) - Just days into the new school year, Catholic Community Schools says at least one building in their system has identified "several positive cases" of COVID-19. Officials with St. Katharine Dre...
Sep 05, 2021 Unsplash
Sheriff: Looking for Children and Mother, Could be in Danger from Father
(KNSI) - Law enforcement is asking for the public to be on the lookout for four children and their mother who could be in danger. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office is looking for Robert and Erika He...
Sep 04, 2021
Omar Urges President to Halt Line 3 Pipeline Project in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and her progressive congressional allies have urged President Joe Biden to stop construction on Enbridge Energy's much-contested Line 3 project. Omar and t...
Sep 03, 2021 Rep. Ilhan Omar/X
BCA: Police Need Help Finding Missing Woman
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is asking for the public's help finding a missing 39-year-old woman. The Inver Grove Heights Police Department says Amber Haas was last seen on A...
Sep 03, 2021 Minnesota BCA