Apple Valley News

A $15.7 billion education package that will "make life easier" for working parents, according to the bill's supporters, now awaits Minnesota Gov.

Construction continues on a new transit station at 147th Street and Cedar Avenues, in Apple Valley.

Students and families at Westview Elementary School in Apple Valley tried their hand at constructing mini-catapults, wiring circuits and building bridges out of candy on Thursday night.

Seeing your bill at the gas pump climb to $50, $60 or even $70? The Minnesota statewide average gas price is $4.27-the highest in the lower 48 states, according to a Monday report in the Pioneer Press .

Nicole Boe and Carey Griffith Edwards were ahead of the curve when they first opened Dog Day Getaway in Apple Valley.

A $15.7 billion education package that will "make life easier" for working parents, according to the bill's supporters, now awaits Minnesota Gov.

With the reconstruction of Cedar Avenue in Apple Valley nearly complete, the Minnesota Department of Transportation is now turning its attention north, to a stretch of Highway 77 between Interstate 35E and Bloomington.

The following is a rundown of crime-related stories from our Dakota County Patches this last week.

Katerina Wong, an Eastview High School student, is one of two Minnesotans to have received a prestigious National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship-which will enable her to study in China for a single year.

They sent an eleven-billion dollar health spending package to the governor on Saturday.

Rick Anderson is going to hold his fifth annual used bike sale in his Apple Valley garage this weekend, and was photographed cleaning a bike on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

An Apple Valley man accused of stealing nearly $3,000 in Blu-Ray discs from an Eagan Target allegedly told police he planned to sell the stolen items to help his family "make ends meet." Scott Thomas Hodge, 33, a single count of felony theft, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Dakota County Attorney's Office.

Drivers speeding past Maple Grove on Interstate 94 pass towering sand mounds and cavernous gravel pits that make up the largest undeveloped area in the city and one of the largest gravel-mining areas in the Twin Cities.

The zoo is partnering with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource to conserve the North American Plains bison.

The Associated Press describes the backgrounds of two south Minneapolis legislators-state Sen.

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The road work may have already started on Interstate 35E, but the most significant portions of the project-and the worst traffic headaches-have yet to come.

Apple Valley police wrote about nine speeding tickets for every 200 residents in 2011, according to a report on WCCO-TV . Rosemount police wrote closer to eight.

Diamond Path Elementary School in Apple Valley wants your help to send its fourth-grade class on a high-adventure trip to Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center .

A Bloomington man led police on a drunken car chase, nearly hitting a group of pedestrians before he stopped and was arrested, according to Apple Valley police.