
Meet Kirsti Marohn
Kirsti Marohn is a correspondent based in Collegeville covering central Minnesota communities, water and the environment. She started at MPR News in 2017.
Kirsti started her journalism career in 1996 as a reporter and editor at the Pine River Journal in Pine River. She then served as a reporter at the St. Cloud Times for nearly 20 years, covering state and local government, investigative stories and the environment. She has also worked as a correspondent for USA Today.
Kirsti’s work has been honored with several awards, including a National Headliner Award for coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards, and awards of merit from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.
Kirsti graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history. She lives in Brainerd with her husband, two daughters and a Lab-Shar Pei mix named Gryffindor. She spends her free time running, hiking, kayaking, reading and traveling, and she enjoys taking annual trips to her happy place — the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — with her family.
You can find Kirsti Marohn on LinkedIn.
Recent Contributions
- After Trump campaign bill goes unpaid, St. Cloud changes policy for charging event fees
- National Loon Center to break ground on new facility in Crosslake
- Data centers face new regulations, some worry they fall short of protecting water, residents
- Some Minnesota boaters will need safety training, permit starting July 1
- Protesters rally in support of jailed St. Paul woman charged with assaulting law enforcement during raid
- Minnesota's clean energy industry fretting about possible rollback of tax credits
- Emmer praises, defends federal tax cut and spending bill in telephone town hall
- Minnesota cities maintain plans to remove ‘forever chemicals’ from drinking water
- Hundreds of sheep helping keep prairie plants in check at Xcel’s Sherco solar project
- Deadline approaching for filing claim in settlement over Minnesota’s tax-forfeited property sales