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Officials in Dakota County hope to reintroduce 15 bison to Spring Lake Park Reserve by the fall of 2022.

A man who admitted setting fire to a Dakota County government building has been sentenced to prison for several years and ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution.

A Minnesota State Patrol officer accused of sexually abusing a teenager has been cleared of one charge but a jury could not reach a decision on another.

One person was killed and another was seriously injured this morning in an explosion outside Hampton.

A last-minute plea agreement averted an Oronoco woman’s trial on charges connected to a deadly traffic crash near Cannon Falls two years ago.

Prosecutors have filed charges of criminal vehicular homicide against a Hastings man suspected of driving away after a 1,100-pound boulder fell off his truck and killed two women passing by in a car.

Monday on Rich Valley Boulevard in Rosemount, a mother and daughter were out driving. They were not thinking about that this may be their last moments alive. Their Toyota Avalon was heading north, when a truck came over a railroad crossing and rolled a 600-800 lb boulder on top of their Avalon killing instantly, Karen Jean Christiansen and her daughter Jena Helene Christiansen...

Dakota County has temporarily closed Lake Byllesby Regional Park beach and has suggested that the public have no direct contact with the lake water following the Northfield wastewater treatment plant sewage discharge Tuesday.

An Advisory was issued from the City of Northfield, for the public to avoid direct contact with the Cannon River downstream of Northfield, after a broken PVC pipe at the treatment plant sent about 1 million gallons of wastewater into the river.

Saturday night a crash in Vermillion Township in Dakota County, claimed the life of two fathers. It happened at the intersection of Goodwin Avenue and 190th Street East.