Congress has approved $750,000 in funding for upgrades to Pine City's wastewater treatment pond system, according to an announcement from U.S. senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith. According to a news release from Klobuchar's office issued on Jan. 20, the Senate-passed legislation — which also secures $1 million for water infrastructure work in Kettle River — will now go to the President's desk to be signed into law. “Water and wastewater infrastructure need to be upgraded t

Cambridge-Isanti took both of their basketball squads to Chisago Lakes on Tuesday night. The girls teams played first, these two met before the Christmas break, and it was a close game that the Wildcats came away with.

An extreme cold watch is set to take effect on Thursday across east-central Minnesota, bringing dangerously cold wind chills to the region. According to the National Weather Service, the alert will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday in Pine County, and 9 p.m. elsewhere in east-central Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin. It extends through noon on Saturday. The National Weather Service states that wind chills as low as 45 degrees below zero are possible, which could cause frostbite on ex

At the Pine City Council's Jan. 7 meeting, council member Gina Pettie said the library committee selected Kristina Shuey's novel "The Day The World Burned" for this year's Pine City Reads program. "We chose a local author, somebody who has been through our school system, and she wrote a novel about the Hinckley fire, and so I think that will be really fun for the community to read together," Pettie explained. On Monday, Shuey sat down with WCMP to discuss her debut novel, wha

Minnesota Energy Resources has alerted customers in Willow River, Sturgeon Lake and Finlayson impacted by Friday's damaged pipeline that there are no longer restrictions on their natural gas use. According to a news release issued on Tuesday, around 650 customers lost service Friday afternoon due to damage on a Northern Natural Gas interstate pipeline that provides natural gas to the Minnesota Energy Resources system. The release states that NNG provided a temporary supply of