Competitive races for mayor, city council and school board are scattered throughout the Sun Thisweek and the Dakota County Tribune coverage area.

Eight candidates for four Stillwater Area Public Schools seats debated budgets, student retention and assessment strategies ...

The No. 3-seeded Zimmerman Thunder opened the Section 6-4A playoffs with a 49-19 victory over the No. 6 Westonka Whitehawks ...

The Watertown-Mayer girls soccer team has been one of the state’s best in recent years, but they had not made it to the state ...

In a match-up of the league’s most prolific running game vs. the top rushing defense it was Mack Jurkovich and Forest Lake ...

The city of Isanti has received some good news regarding two playground sets to be placed in two different city parks.

Changing boundary lines for fire department services provided by Cambridge and Dalbo fire departments within Springvale ...

A Big Lake man has been ordered to pay more than $81,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to theft by swindle in a case ...

A remodeling project that will facilitate a move for the Public Health and Environmental Services Department from the sixth to second floor of the county government center was approved by ...

Rush City and North Branch entered the girls volleyball postseason with 20-win seasons and favorable section tournament ...

Two-time defending state champion Holy Angels secured the top seed in Section 3A, looking for a seventh trip to state in nine ...

Long before I ever put my name on a newspaper story, I put newspapers on doorsteps. I was a paperboy in south Minneapolis, ...