Category Archives: KNSI Local News
Minnesota to Share in $4.3 Billion Settlement with Opioid Maker Purdue Pharma
(KNSI) - Minnesota is part of a multi-billion dollar settlement deal reached with Purdue Pharma concerning their alleged role in the opioid crisis. As part of the agreement, OxyContin maker Purdue Pha...
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Community Group Asking Sartell St. Stephen to Fire Company Over Equity Audit Results
KNSI News Reporter Jake Judd contributed significantly to this story (KNSI) - A group of Sartell-St. Stephen School District residents say they are upset with the district for hiring a company to audi...
Jul 08, 2021
Minnesota Gas Utilities Overbilled Customers by $380 Million After Winter Storm, AG Ellison Says
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota utilities mismanaged their natural gas purchases after a historic winter storm in the South, which led them to overbill customers by $380 million, the state attorney g...
Jul 08, 2021 Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash
Art Show to Take Place All Around St. Cloud Saturday
(KNSI) - On Saturday, July 10th, artists in the St. Cloud area will display their art out on their lawns for the public to enjoy during the Drive-By Art Show. From noon to 7 p.m., people can walk, bik...
Jul 07, 2021 Dene Dryden/KNSI News
Minnesota DNR Looking At Reinstating Wolf Hunting In 2022
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says it won't consider holding a wolf hunting or trapping season until 2022 at the earliest. The agency said in a statement Wednesd...
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UPDATE: Waite Park Police Say Missing Woman Found Safe in Twin Cities
Update, 4:55 p.m. Thursday: (KNSI) - The Waite Park Police Department says authorities have found Melissa Andrle. Chief Dave Bentrud says the department was able to make contact with Andrle in the Twi...
Jul 07, 2021 Waite Park Police Department
First District Congressman Jim Hagedorn Announces Kidney Cancer Recurrence
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn has had a recurrence of his stage IV kidney cancer, the southern Minnesota Republican announced Wednesday. Hagedorn, who was first diagnosed in February 2...
Jul 07, 2021 AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn
Minnesota Senate Ends Special Session Without Confirming DNR, Housing Finance Commissioners
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate adjourned its special session Wednesday without taking a planned vote on confirming two of Gov. Tim Walz's commissioners, after Democr...
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Congressman Views Stearns County Bridge In Need Of Replacement
(KNSI) - Central Minnesota's U.S. Congressman viewed a Stearns County bridge deemed deficient and in need of replacement in the next couple of years. The Minnesota Department of Transportation rates b...
Jul 07, 2021 Engineer Jodi Teich talking with Congressman Tom Emmer about a bridge replacement project in Waite Park Jake Judd/KNSI News
Teen Who Recorded George Floyd's Death Loses Uncle in Crash With Minneapolis Police Department Squad Car
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The teenager who recorded the last moments of George Floyd's life in a video that helped launch a global protest movement against racial injustice said her uncle has died in a crash...
Jul 07, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News