Carver County News

By Richard Crawford Beginning in January, townships in Carver County that dona t pay for contract police services can expect to see a decline in selected services from the Sheriffa s Office.

A few years ago, faced with a growing number of difficult child protection cases and swelling foster care costs for abused and neglected children, some Minnesota counties decided to try another approach.

Share + Nov 14, 2009 7:33 pm US/Central Reporting Reg Chapman BLOOMINGTON, Minn.

If your children have not gotten vaccinated for the H1N1 virus, you have another chance to do so.

By Forrest Adams Vines that could produce the next great wine were reported stolen from the University of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum on October 20.

University of Minnesota officials are puzzled and concerned over the recent theft of some valuable, specially-developed grapevines from Chaska's Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

Minnesota is poised to become only the second state in the country, behind California, to use a new kind of DNA testing that promises to heat up cold cases.

Carver County Public Health is offering a H1N1 Nasal Vaccine Clinic for Healthy Children ages 5 through 9 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov.

By Unsie Zuege A Carver County woman is hoping her land will be recognized as an important archeological site and that it will be preserved under the permanent protection of the Archeological Conservancy.

Thieves in Carver County have targeted an experimental grapevine that could lead to a new type of wine.

By Mark W. Olson What should people get out of the new veterans exhibit? Carver County Historical Society curator Larry Hutchings, taking a brief break from his work bench, ponders the question before replying that he hopes it a oecomforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.a The Veterans Gallery, in the county historical society ...

Someone might be trying to cheat their way to creating, and profiting off of a new kind of wine.

Faribault County commissioners have voted to freeze the pay of elected officials in 2010 while giving a 3 percent increase to some employees.

Is Mille Lacs County a "high welfare" county, as some county residents have charged during the past few decades? How do you define welfare and the different programs that Mille Lacs County Family Services operates? Leo Vos, director of Mille Lacs County Family Services since 1996 and an employee in that department since 1976, talked to the Mille ...

Submitted by sfiecke on November 2, 2009 - 3:14pm. Voters have the chance to remake the face of city and school government on Tuesday, electing eight to office and determining whether Shakopee schools continue to receive an extra $4.3 million per year from the tax levy.

A garage explosion forced a family from their home in Carver County late Sunday night.

Submitted by Mathias Baden on October 29, 2009 - 11:45am. State Rep. Paul Kohls, R-Victoria, is suspending his campaign for Minnesota governor.

Tattoo artist Dwayne Holt thinks it is deplorable that anyone in Minnesota can open a tattoo parlor and start giving tattoos or piercing navels, noses and other body parts without a state license and no worry of state regulation.

Carver County Commissioner Tom Workman has received an apology from the head of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency over a letter of warning the agency had sent him ordering him to stop commenting on the legality of a septic system at a county-owned facility in Waconia.

A Delano man and a Watertown woman have been arrested in connection with a rash of burglaries in the Watertown and Delano area during the past month, according to Carver County Sheriff Byron 'Bud' Olson.