Oakdale News

A study by the Minnesota Health Department finds that residents of the eastern part of the Twin Cities have been exposed to chemicals legally dumped decades ago in east metro landfills.

Washington County's new environmental center in Woodbury will welcome your used fluorescent bulbs, unwanted toxic cleaners and old television sets - if you could just hold on to them until mid-August. That's when the nearly 10,000-square-foot center will open for business, complete with a two-lane drive-through. The center, on Cottage Grove Drive ...

A St. Paul man has been convicted of helping rob an Oakdale construction site and ordered to pay thousands in restitution.

In late June, I happened to be in several malls - shopping for my daughter's birthday and avoiding the heat.

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School bus drivers and bus aides at two First Student bus yards in the metro area voted four-to-one and two-to-one in two separate elections in recent weeks to organize as members of Teamsters Local 120.

In a rare reversal of circumstance, one of the metro area's most visible prosecutors got his knuckles rapped Thursday.

A rollover crash along Interstate 694 in Oakdale late Monday killed a 19-year-old Blaine man and injured two others.

The North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale school district may start offering foreign language classes at its middle schools.

A 19-year-old man from Blaine is dead after a rollover accident in the east metro Monday night.

All week, Bethpage State Park has been patrolled by state police, Nassau police and, of course, food police.

The Washington County Board of Commissioners voted at its June 9 meeting to approve an agreement that will allow the county to use $1.6 million in federal stimulus funds to help purchase and rehabilitate homes in the county.

The 3M Co. won a landmark court case Wednesday when a jury ruled against claims of Washington County residents suing the company over chemicals in their groundwater.

Federal stimulus money will pay for road improvements, job assistance and energy upgrades in Washington County in the coming year, bringing some relief after commissioners made deep cuts in their budget to compensate for lost revenue.

My customers, Suzanne and Carolyn, at the Cub Foods Phalen store. While cashiering June 3, I had a customer who did not have all the money for the groceries she wanted to buy.

Tuesday, June 30, will be the last collection day for household hazardous waste at the Washington County Collection Site in Oakdale.

Services for Margaret Mae Hill, 85, of Shoreview, Minn., will be on Sunday, June 14, at 4 p.m. at Central Baptist Church in St.

Andrew Busskohl, a teenage Woodbury, Minn., heart transplant patient who conceived a bizarre murder plot to cut out the heart of a stranger, was sentenced Monday to three months in jail and ordered to undergo further psychological counseling and examination to determine whether he might attempt such a crime again.

Kelly S. ReckMatthew J. Hangge ROCHESTER -- Kelly S. Reck and Matthew J. Hangge were married May 9 at Redeemer Baptist Church in Oakdale, Minn.

Washington County will apply for more than $218,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds, made available through the federal stimulus dollars.