Category Archives: KNSI Local News
Judge Promises Quick Ruling on Guns at Minnesota State Fair
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A judge has promised a quick ruling on whether people with permits to carry firearms can bring their guns into the Minnesota State Fair, which opens in one week. The Minnesota Gun O...
Aug 19, 2021 Jake Judd/KNSI News
Coborn's Employee Participates in Statewide Best Bagger Competition
(KNSI) - Last weekend, the Minnesota Grocers Association held its annual Best Bagger Competition, bringing six grocery store employees from around the state to St. Paul to compete. That cohort include...
Aug 19, 2021 Coborn's, Incorporated
Governor Walz Says Minnesota Will Take Afghan Refugees
(KNSI) - Governor Tim Walz says Minnesota will be open to taking refugees from Afghanistan. In a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday, Governor Tim Walz reaffirmed his commitment to working with ...
Aug 19, 2021 Associated Press
Lightning Sparked Growing Wildfire in Northeast Minnesota, Forest Service Says
ISABELLA, Minn. (AP) - A wildfire in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota that crews have been fighting since the weekend has grown to 6 1/4 square miles (16 square kilometers), but ...
Aug 19, 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)
Enrollment Begins for Preschool 4 Kids Program
(KNSI) - Enrollment is underway for a new preschool program in St. Cloud. St. Cloud Area School District 742, the Rotary Club of St. Cloud and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota are partn...
Aug 19, 2021 Unsplash
American Idol Auditions for Minnesota August 25th
(KNSI) - American Idol auditions are coming soon to a computer near you. Instead of superstar singer hopefuls standing in a seemingly endless line awaiting their shot at stardom, American Idol auditio...
Aug 19, 2021 Freemantle/ABC Entertainment
U.S. Representative Emmer, Fischbach In Minnesota; D.C. Staffers Safe
(KNSI) - Police are investigating a report of a possible explosive device in a pickup truck outside the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill and have evacuated multiple buildings on the sprawling Capit...
Aug 19, 2021 From Tom Emmer's Office and Michelle Fischbach's Office
Man Charged After Allegedly Raping a Woman at a Waite Park Hotel
(KNSI) - A Burnsville man has been charged after allegedly raping a woman at a Waite Park hotel. According to the criminal complaint, police were called to the Coratel Inn on August 15th and found a w...
Aug 19, 2021
UPDATE: Standoff near Capitol Ends, Suspect Arrested
UPDATE: 1:43 p.m. - WASHINGTON (AP) - The man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol has surrendered to law enforcement, ending an hourslong standoff. The man, identified b...
Aug 19, 2021 Associated Press
State Imposes Water Restrictions as Drought Conditions Worsen
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The drought in Minnesota continues to get worse, exposing rocks, riverbeds and islands in the St. Croix and Minnesota river drying up entire channels in the mighty Mississippi. The ...
Aug 19, 2021 Associated Press