Category Archives: KNSI Local News
Date, Speaker Lineup Released for TEDxStCloud 2021
(KNSI) - TEDxStCloud is returning to the Paramount Center for the Arts this fall. Eight speakers will give TED talks on October 14th from 5 to 9 p.m. all centering around the theme of "Embrace." This ...
Aug 25, 2021 Photo by Bogomil Mihaylov on Unsplash
68th Princess Kay of the Milky Way to be Crowned Wednesday Night
(KNSI) - Two women from Central Minnesota are in the running for Midwest Dairy Association's 68th Princess Kay of the Milky Way title. The ten contestants were selected after two days of judging and l...
Aug 25, 2021 Sculptor Linda Christensen works on a Princess Kay of the Milky Way butter sculpture in 2017. Photo by Lorie Shaull on Flickr.
St. Cloud Based Soldiers Helping Evacuate Americans, Allies from Afghanistan
(KNSI) - A Minnesota National Guard unit from St. Cloud is helping evacuate Americans and their allies from Afghanistan. According to the National Guard, Task Force 1-194 mobilized from Kuwait to Hami...
Aug 25, 2021 Army Lt. Col. Jake Helgestad
Kirk Cousins Says Meeting With Dr. Osterholm ‘Was What It Was’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins said the team’s talk with infectious disease expert Dr. Michael Osterholm about the COVID-19 vaccine was “a great meet...
Aug 25, 2021
CWD Testing Mandatory During Opening Weekends of Firearms Season In Parts Of MN
(KNSI) - Chronic wasting disease (CWD) zones have been expanded, and mandatory testing is again required for the opening weekends in those zones. The opening weekends of firearms season A is November ...
Aug 25, 2021 Unsplash
One St. Cloud Area COVID Death Reported Wednesday as Statewide Hospitalizations Rise
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting 1,404 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday along with seven newly reported deaths from the novel coronavirus. The latest report includes 112 new cases ...
Aug 25, 2021 Unsplash
Watkins Man Charged After Allegedly Sexually Assaulting a Former Classmate
(KNSI) - A 22-year-old Watkins man is accused of sexually assaulting a former classmate Monday afternoon. Court documents say the woman told police she was riding in a car with Fernando Camillo Andrew...
Aug 25, 2021 Stearns County Jail
Sartell Man Under Arrest for Beating and Threatening Woman
(KNSI) - A Sartell man is under arrest after police say he assaulted a woman at her apartment. The criminal complaint says a woman called police from her neighbor's home to say 33-year-old Jon Paul We...
Aug 25, 2021 Stearns County Jail
BWCA Closure Extended As Greenwood Lake Fire Expands, New Fires Start
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - U.S. Forest Service officials have extended the closure of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as Minnesota's largest wildfire doubled in size. The Greenwood Lake fire burni...
Aug 25, 2021 This Aug. 15, 2021, photo provided by U.S. Forest Service-Superior National Forest shows a rapidly growing wildfire in northeastern Minnesota that has prompted some evacuations, the U.S. Forest Service said Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. The fire was spotted around 3 p.m. Sunday near Greenwood Lake, about 15 miles southwest of Isabella, in the Superior National Forest. (Nick Petrack/Forest Service-Superior National Forest via AP)
State to Bring $100 COVID-19 Vaccine Incentive to the Minnesota State Fair
(KNSI) - The $100 Visa gift card COVID-19 vaccination incentive is back. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's office sent out a press release Wednesday morning announcing that the State of Minnesota will off...
Aug 25, 2021 Photo by Marisol Benitez on Unsplash