Category Archives: KNSI Local News

UNDATED - (AP) Minnesota narrowly avoided losing one of its eight seats in Congress despite the failure of its population growth to keep up with some other states, according to figures released Monday...

(KNSI) - A Waite Park police officer and a semi driver are OK after another driver went through a red light, causing a crash Sunday afternoon. According to the Waite Park Police Department, an officer...

(KNSI) - Bidding is open this week for the Tri-County Humane Society's annual Wine, Kibbles and Bids silent auction fundraiser. Due to COVID-19, the silent auction is again taking a virtual format. Sp...

(KNSI) - As we recognize the 20th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, officials say the public has been instrumental in busting sex traffickers in Central Minnesota. In 2018, law enforcemen...

(KNSI) - Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar says changes in policing are needed following the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. On NBC's Meet the Press, she urged Congress to pass a police refor...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Public memorial services for former Vice President Walter Mondale are planned for September in Minnesota and in Washington, D.C., his family said. The family said details will be sh...

(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health reports 1,197 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths from the novel coronavirus Monday. Today's newly confirmed cases include 115 found in the five-county St....

(KNSI) - As lawmakers continue to go back and forth over the latest budget at the capitol, child advocates hope legislators will boost funding for a program linking school lunches with locally-grown f...

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) - A suburban Minneapolis nursing home has paid the state's largest fine for a coronavirus-related safety violation after an employee contracted COVID-19 and died. State Labo...

BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) - Two people are recovering from injuries they suffered when their sport utility vehicle hit a bear in east-central Minnesota. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports 19-year-old Tyl...