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Three development items, all recommended for approval — including 166 new homes that slip right past Lakeville's housing moratorium.

Apple Valley High's new gym opens in November, a 50-truck concrete pour, and a hidden tank that holds 168,000 gallons — the latest on District 196's building boom.

Camera glasses are out. District 196 banned students from wearing smart glasses at school over privacy and cheating worries — here's the deal.

Lakeville's new ELA and social studies curriculum is locked in for the next decade — but one board member fought hard to keep it off the consent agenda.

Apple Valley's community center and senior center are becoming one building — with an indoor playground and a two-year construction window.

Apple Valley's beloved free summer concert series is bouncing to Bogart's this year — and the new Kelley Park amphitheater opens in September.

New curriculum, dyslexia screening, 11 new learning coaches, and an outside firm — here's the big plan Burnsville schools have for next year.

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

Rosemount's planning commission just shot down a duplex rezoning on 132nd Court — but offered the homeowner a creative way out.

Lakeville added 388 special education students over three years — but a board member says families are open-enrolling out for better services elsewhere.