
Lakeville Streets Are Worth $393 Million & Here's How the City Keeps Them Alive
333 miles of road, a $393 million price tag, and a plan to spend a little now so the city doesn't spend a fortune later.
August 5, 2026
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333 miles of road, a $393 million price tag, and a plan to spend a little now so the city doesn't spend a fortune later.
August 5, 2026

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.
August 3, 2026

Minnesota Burger Week is here, and three spots right in our backyard are slinging $10 burgers — here's where to go first.
August 3, 2026

Cedar Avenue is getting torn up and repaved through 2028, and a bunch of ramps around Apple Valley and Eagan are closing one by one — here's your cheat sheet.
August 2, 2026

The Dakota County Fair is basically a week-long free concert this year — here's every act, every day.
August 1, 2026

Burnsville's newest smoothie shop opens Saturday, Aug. 1 with $3.99 smoothies all day, free swag, and a shot at a $150 gift card.
July 31, 2026

A developer wants 27 townhomes on a wooded parcel by LeMay Lake, and the neighbors showed up in force to say no.
July 30, 2026

A wind-tunnel testing campus with 200 high-tech jobs is coming to the old UMore Park land next to Meta, and Rosemount just said yes.
July 29, 2026

15 concerts in 31 days. Here's everyone playing Mystic Lake Amphitheater in Shakopee this August.
July 28, 2026

Lakeville is trying to get ahead of the data center boom — and the biggest 'campus' projects would be banned outright.
July 28, 2026
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