Category Archives: KNSI Local News
How Does A Team Make The NCAA Tournament?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It's a three-week stretch of nail-biting college basketball, covering screens for hours, with all of our hopes scribbled on precious paper: the bracket. How does a team make...
Mar 16, 2021
Lawmakers Fear Turning 144 Cities Into "Micropolitan" Areas
CITY (AP) - A bipartisan group in Congress is urging the federal government not to remove 144 cities from being designated as metropolitan areas. They say reclassifying them as "micropolitan" could pu...
Mar 16, 2021 KNSI News
River's Edge Convention Center Tapped as State's Next COVID-19 Community Vaccination Site
(KNSI) - St. Cloud's River's Edge Convention Center will soon turn into a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination clinic as Minnesota makes it its sixth community vaccination site in the state. Gov. Tim Walz...
Mar 16, 2021 Dene Dryden
Music, Art Events Returning to Munsinger Gardens This Summer
(KNSI) - Summer events at Munsinger Gardens are back on for 2021. The biweekly Music in the Gardens concerts start Sunday, June 13th at 3 p.m. near the Munsinger Gardens gazebo. The summer's musical l...
Mar 16, 2021 Jake Judd (KNSI)
Sen. Smith Will Chair Rural Development and Energy Subcommittee
(KNSI) - A U.S. Senator from Minnesota has been tapped to Chair the Rural Development and Energy Subcommittee. Senator Tina Smith is in charge of the subcommittee, which oversees many U.S. Department ...
Mar 16, 2021 Jake Judd/KNSI News
Minnesota School of Business Agrees to Forgive Former Students' Loan Debt in Deal with AG's Office
(KNSI) - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says his office has reached a tentative agreement with the Minnesota School of Business and Globe University to give millions of dollars back to forme...
Mar 16, 2021 Photo by Leon Wu on Unsplash
Loved Ones Say Goodbye to Soldiers Deploying Overseas
(KNSI) - Sixty-five men and women from a St. Cloud-based Minnesota National Guard unit are headed for Kuwait. A send-off ceremony was held at the St. Cloud Armory Tuesday afternoon for the B Company 1...
Mar 16, 2021 Jake Judd (KNSI)
62 COVID-19 Cases Confirmed Around St. Cloud Tuesday
(KNSI) - Minnesota reports 716 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths on Tuesday. The five-county St. Cloud area reported no new deaths but does add 62 new cases: seven in Benton County, four in Morrison C...
Mar 16, 2021 Unsplash
Man Charged After Alleged Baseball Bat Attack
(KNSI) - A St. Cloud man is under arrest after he allegedly assaulted someone with a baseball bat Monday morning. Police say about 1:30 a.m., they were called to a gas station on 9th Avenue South to f...
Mar 16, 2021 Stearns County Jail
DLI: Companies Underpaid Workers During Camp Ripley Construction Project, Owe Back Pay
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry is ordering two companies to pay $54,000 in back wages to 20 construction workers after an investigation found that those workers were underpaid...
Mar 16, 2021 Unsplash