Pine County News

Essentia Health is resuming talks with the hospital district in Pine County about the future of Pine Medical Center in Sandstone.

Leaders in Sandstone, Minn., said Wednesday they were relieved that Essentia Health has abandoned controversial plans to buy the town's hospital.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - As the drought recedes and the landscape greens up, the Department of Natural Resources is lifting burning restrictions in more Minnesota counties.

Restrictions on open burning were lifted Monday, May 7 in 13 additional counties, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources .

ST. PAUL, Minn. - State burning restrictions are being lifted next week in 13 more Minnesota counties.

It was a weird week for the sheriff's department-- there was an arrest April 27 that the east central Violent Crime Task Force helped make possible.

POKEGEMA TOWNSHIP, Minn. - Neighbors in one Pine County neighborhood will have to wait at least a week before a property full of decomposing trash is cleaned up.

A Hinckley, Minn., man is accused of contracting with an undercover law enforcement officer to kidnap his ex-girlfriend and hold her as a sex slave.

A Pine County man is charged with conspiring to arrange the kidnapping of his ex-girlfriend and having her used as a sex slave.