Virginia News

A panel of top Minnesota officials approved the sale of 77 mineral rights leases Thursday to four companies that want to prospect for copper and other valuable metals in the state's scenic northeast, overriding the objections of home and cabin owners.

Funeral services will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, at Rejoice Lutheran Church in Clearwater with Rev.

VIRGINIA, MN ---Two Iron Range families, totaling ten people, are without a home after a fire burned a Virginia apartment Friday night.

The St. Louis County Sheriff's Department tells Eyewitness News, 47 year old, Andrew Wagner was last seen in Virginia at 2pm on May 3. The department says there has not been any activity on his credit card or bank accounts, nor has he been seen.

A search has been cancelled for a missing three-year-old girl in Virginia. She was found after about an hour into a multi-agency search.

It is nature, poet John Caddy says, that saved him when he was young and escaping a rough life on Minnesota's Iron Range.

VIRGINIA, Minn. - An embattled police chief on Minnesota's Iron Range has agreed to leave.

VIRGINIA, MN ---Virginia city employees are now working under a new contract after months of negotiation with the city.

VIRGINIA, Minn. - A 33-year-old man is charged with ramming a Minnesota state trooper's squad car, prompting the trooper to shoot at him.

Virginia, MN --An Iron Range man has been released from the hospital and another is in custody following an alleged stabbing in Virginia.

VIRGINIA, MN ---The players in a "merger in progress" between Essentia Health and an Iron Range Hospital continue to hash out what their new relationship might look like.

VIRGINIA, Minn. - Authorities say a Minnesota State Patrol trooper fired several shots at a driver who repeatedly rammed his squad car.

Virginia, MN -One person is in custody after allegedly ramming his truck into a Minnesota State Patrol trooper's car.

VIRGINIA, MN ---Workers at a Virginia business were left startled Friday afternoon when a car slammed into a storefront window of the Hallmark Card Shop on Chestnut Street.