Category Archives: KNSI Local News

(KNSI) - A Central Minnesota school administrator is calling it quits after more than 40 years in education. Sartell-St. Stephen Superintendent Jeff Schwiebert is stepping down at the end of the schoo...

(KNSI) - If you see smoke coming from a Stearns County park, don't be alarmed. Mississippi River County Park near Rice is closed for a prescribed burn on Tuesday. Officials use prescribed burns to hel...

(KNSI) - The Liberty Block Party is back in 2021 for Granite City Days and announced this year's lineup. The traditional free Friday night show will be at Whitney Park on Friday, June 25. This year's ...

(KNSI) - 'Speaking Up about Buckling Up' is the name of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety's next enforcement campaign. The Minnesota State Patrol, sheriff's deputies, ...

(KNSI) - A Sauk Rapids man has been sentenced for a weapons charge that stemmed from an incident in South Dakota. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 48-year-old Ron Carlo Carter was stopped ...

(KNSI) - The City of Sauk Rapids will be showing off its new Southside Park this summer with a ten week concert series. The series is called Rock the Riverside, and each week will feature a warm up ba...

(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health confirms 469 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday and no new deaths statewide. New cases in Minnesota have been on the downtrend over the past two weeks, accordi...

(KNSI) - The National Weather Service says central Minnesota has the potential to see some isolated severe weather today. The risk is at the marginal level. Forecasters say heavy fog that blanketed th...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota's coronavirus vaccination rate has accelerated after several weeks of sluggish inoculation numbers. The state pace remained above 40,000 shots a day on Sunday, a level...

(KNSI) - Two people were sent to the hospital Sunday night after colliding with a deer. The Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office says it learned about the crash shortly before 10 p.m. and responded to th...