Lakeville News

Andrew Brobston, a software engineer from Vermillion Township in rural Dakota County, filed today with the Secretary of State to run for the Minnesota Senate in District 58.A The district includes Farmington, most of Lakeville, and portions of rural Dakota and Goodhue Counties.

A scheme to sell stolen cars to a St. Paul metal scrapper has landed a Lakeville man a 180-day jail sentence in Ramsey County Court.

Love a local business or restaurant?A Come to think of it, maybe you hate it ... Either way, your neighbors in Lakeville care what you think.

How well do you knowA Lakeville ? Can you identify where this photo was taken? Submit your best guesses in the comments section below.

Lakeville's new Minnesota House district has its first official candidate for office.

South-of-the-river educators say Minnesota's new system of rating public schools will help teachers tailor their instruction to the needs of their students.

Though you might live or work in Apple Valley, chances are you traveling to or through our neighboring communities as well.

A re-count was held last Thursday at the Sechrest-Webster Community Center for positions 2 and 3 of the Corrigan City Council.

Each week, Lakeville Patch roams the streets, Facebook, wherever ... and asks folks around town what they think about a given topic.

In January, a Farmington man was accused of plowing into the back of a car , and then driving away, only to roll his truck a few blocks away.

Here are the most recent people to pass away in Lakeville or who had ties toA Lakeville .

Though you might live or work in Lakeville, chances are you're intimately curious about what's happening in your neighboring communities.

Police say a Lakeville man stoleA more than $3,000 in DVD movies from multiple different Twin Cities Target stores spanning 22 incidents during a spree late last year.

June 6, 1930: Preliminary numbers are in for the 1930 Census, and Dakota County is growing.

Police say Justin Paul Mertz, 26, of Lakeville, threatened to kill his wife, and when police went to his home to issue an restraining order, they found a loaded handgun under the refrigerator where his three and five year old children could reach.

Jenna Schultz, 26, a former student teacher at Simley High School in Inver Grove Heights, faces felony charges after reportedly sending sexual messages to a 17-year-old student over a social media website.

How well do you knowA Lakeville ? Can you identify where this photo was taken? Submit your best guesses in the comments section below.

If you live in Lakeville, you know the perils of left turns from Dodd Boulevard onto County Road 50.

A Buffalo semi-truck driver has been found guilty of setting off a chain-reaction crash in May of 2010 that killed two women and an unborn child.

Work by artists Dan Petrov and Richard Dison will be on display in a show that opens June 1 at Crossings at Carnegie , 320 East Ave., Zumbrota.