Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is ripping a move by President Barack Obama to ease student loan debt as an "abuse of power" that will give people incentive to dodge debt. Bachmann reacted Thursday to a decision Obama announced a day earlier to cap payments for some college loan borrowers and forgive payments for others […]

St. Cloud State University officially broke ground on the new $45 million Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility. Dignitaries such as Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, SCSU President Earl H. Potter and the Chair of the MnSCU Board of Trustees Scott Thiss spoke at the event. KVSC provided sound reinforcement and broadcasted live from the event […]

The St. Cloud School Board has approved an agreement which ends an investigation into complaints that Somali students were being harassed. The School District has denied it committed any civil rights violations, but agreed to take steps to ensure students are not subjected to a hostile environment. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American […]

St. Cloud State University’s Wind Ensemble will be joining with the Minnesota National Guard 34th Infantry Red Bull Band and the St. Cloud Community to pay tribute to the veterans of the armed services. The tribute will be held Saturday November 12th in Ritsche Auditorium on the campus of SCSU at 7 p.m. Officials say […]

Saint Cloud State University’s student organization M.E.Ch.A. is hosting their annual Day of the Dead event. The opening ceremony is at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1 with Danza Mexica Cuauhtemoc in the Atwood Theatre Lounge. A community altar will be set up before the opening ceremony for those who would like to place an […]

A St. Cloud Police Officer witnessed a crash while parked at the intersection of County Road 75 and 38th Street around 7:30 p.m. Monday. The officer said a motorcycle driven by a 36-year-old St. Cloud man was going North on 75 and as he approached the intersection a car going South made a left turn in […]

St. Cloud police pulled over a car for traffic violations and a citizen complaint on Monday. The driver, 54-year-old St. Cloud resident Richard John Graf was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. Graf was taken to the Stearns County Jail where he is being held on charges of two counts of […]

Minnesota’s seat belt compliance rate has reached a record high this year at 92.7 percent. This update comes from observational surveys conducted by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety. Before Minnesota’s first mandatory seat belt law in 1986 seatbelt use was just 20 percent and just 74 percent one decade ago. […]

A St. Cloud State University physics professor is part of a team of researchers who have been given a $1 million grant from NASA for the evaluation of potential future missions. “This is the first hurdle in getting funding for a satellite mission” says SCSU professor and co-creator of the ICON team John Harlander. The mission’s […]

St. Cloud Police were called to the 1000 block of 4th Street southeast around 12:30 a.m. Sunday to a vacant lot where a deceased man had been found by a passerby. Police have identified the man as 59-year-old Jeffrey Lee Eggers who had been missing from Rivercrest Housing Development since October 11th. The lot Eggers […]