Dakota County Blogs

Only Joe Atkins and Mary Hamann-Roland have signed a three-line pledge about protecting the November election — and residents told the other five commissioners they're angry about it.

Dakota County has one infectious disease epidemiologist and one nurse handling childhood lead cases — and both of them showed up to ask the board not to cut public health.

Your Hastings water bill is going up, and the reason is three treatment plants the city says it never should have needed.

Hastings is taking 3M to court over the forever chemicals in five of our drinking water wells — and the city says it can prove the stuff came out of a smokestack.

MVTA runs four south-metro park-and-rides to the State Fair Aug. 27-Sept. 7. $6 round trip. Free parking. Here's which lot to use.

Dakota County's financial cushion is nearly gone, and your property tax bill could jump by double digits for 2027 to help fix it.

Free live music every Wednesday at Lake Marion through September 9 — here's who's still playing and what to bring for a night at Casperson Park.

Apple Valley's County Road 42 is under construction through October. Here are the lane closures, the full closure on August 3, and how to get around it.

Every year, tens of thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Minneapolis get trucked to a Rosemount landfill — and that ash just landed in a legal fight.

Lakeville won the data center lawsuit. A Dakota County judge dismissed the case, ruling the city's environmental review followed the rules.