"American Spirit" is the theme for a free Veteran’s Day concert Thursday at SCSU.  The concert is set for 7 PM Thursday at Ritsche Auditorium in Stewart Hall. The Minnesota National Guard 34th Infantry Division Red Bull Band, who returned to Minnesota in early Minnesota after duty in Basra, Iraq, will be performing. Also scheduled […]

A Central Minnesota rural mail carrier was injured in a rollover accident at 11 a.m. Wednesday morning trying to avoid a deer on the road. 35 year old Kathleen Gerads of Freeport was driving her car on St. Anna Drive in Albany when she saw a deer. According to the Stearns County Sheriffs report, Gerad’s […]

Folks in central Minnesota interested in making an international student’s thanksgiving a little brighter have until Wednesday, November 10th to apply. The Center for International Studies at St. Cloud State is looking for local families to host international students as part of the annual Thanksgiving Program. More than 1,100 international students from nearly 90 countries attend […]

Police are trying to find the person who assaulted and robbed a man walking home from downtown St. Cloud last Friday. It happened sometime between 2 and 2:30 am Friday morning in the alleyway near 5th Street South and 6th Avenue South. Police say a 21-year-old man was walking in the alleyway when an unknown […]

Police responded to a burglary Sunday in the 1200 block of sixth Avenue South. Police say someone broke in to the home through a first floor window sometime between Friday and Sunday. Officers say the home appeared to have been ransacked and various electronics were stolen. Anyone with information on this incident is asked to […]

Next week, students at St. Cloud State University will participate in an election that will play a large role in the economic viability of athletics at the university. The student athletic fee referendum will be on the ballot during the fall Student Government elections which run from Monday, Nov. 15 through Wednesday, Nov. 17. The […]

 A St. Cloud business and home reported burglaries within just over an hour of each other late Friday night and early Saturday morning.   St. Cloud Police were called to the 600 block of 7th Avenue South Friday night to investigate a burglary report.  Police determined that someone had entered the unoccupied home sometime between […]

A Sartell man was busted for possession of large amounts of two different drugs last Thursday. Shortly after 1:45 p.m. the Central Minnesota Drug and Gang Task Force, along with the Sartell Police Department, executed a search warrant at an apartment on second street North in Sartell. Investigators found and confiscated eight grams of methamphetamine, […]

A woman is hurt after being attacked by pit bulls while walking her dog in St. Cloud. It happened Sunday night in Munsinger Gardens, on the city’s east side. Police say two loose pit bulls approached the woman while she was walking her dog and attacked her without provocation. Witnesses say they heard a verbal […]

The Northstar Commuter Rail will not be extended to St. Cloud, at least for now. Calling it a “responsible action as stewards of taxpayer money,” the Northstar Corridor Development Authority says it cannot justify the costs of expanding the commuter rail at this time. Plans for a commuter rail from the twin cities to St. […]