St. Louis County is holding an online auction for properties from its former shoreland lease program. The auction is open now on publicsurplus.com with bidding open until March 11 at 11 a.m. It features 11 properties located on Elbow Lake, Bear Island Lake and Bear Island River. A catalog highlighting the properties can be found at stlouiscountymn.gov/shorelandsales.

On February 23rd the St. Louis County Sheriff's and Rice Lake Fire Department First Responders were called to a motor vehicle crash on Arnold Rd.  Initial information stated a white SUV had struck an elderly female who had been a pedestrian.

The Minnesota Asphalt Pavement Association has named a St. Louis County Public Works project as best in class for 2020. The association honored the county with its Asphalt Paving Merit Award for it's work reconstructing Rice Lake Road. 

The project involved reconstructing more than half a mile of Rice Lake Road, widening the intersection at Arlington Avenue and Arrowhead Road and making improvements to Technology Drive. It was designed to improve traffic flow and safety throughout the area, while also better accommodating pedestrians and other forms of transportation.

The St. Louis County Board has given its final approval to start a production incentive program and the application forms and guidelines are now available online. The production incentive program is designed to encourage the creation of film, television, and digital media content in St. Louis County while also fostering local growth of the production industry talent and workforce.

St. Louis County's latest Tax Forfeited Land Auction, which was held completely online due COVID precautions, has ended with 29 properties sold for a total of $764,250. The online auction closed February 11.