
Rosemount Just Paused All New Data Centers for a Year
After weeks of packed chambers, Rosemount's council just hit pause on new data centers — for a full year.
April 22, 2026
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After weeks of packed chambers, Rosemount's council just hit pause on new data centers — for a full year.
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Burnsville just plugged University of Minnesota psychiatric specialists into its police and fire mental health response — paid for with opioid settlement cash, not tax dollars.
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51 new homes are coming to the corner across from Antlers Park, and the deal finally gives an entire Lakeville neighborhood a second way out when trains block Jaguar.
April 19, 2026

A local Lakeville trucking company is jumping from 7 dock doors to 18 with a new 81,100 sq ft warehouse on County Road 70.
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Three residents asked the county to do something about data centers. The county had to explain it's not legally the right address.
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District 196’s new busing rules mean you have to sign up to get a bus, your kid can only have two addresses, and one Rosemount road became the center of a heated debate.
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Lakeville’s school board went deep on a years-long policy backlog, got good news on the $139.6M bond, and dropped some interesting student data.
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