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A homegrown Minnesota strength-and-boxing gym wants to open in Apple Valley. Here's what Los Campeones is really about, and when the city votes.

Apple Valley's turning into a play-and-eat hub — pickleball, an indoor-outdoor game spot, a new Moe's, and more. Here's what's building, approved, and just opened.

Walls up, roof on, and a Reuse Zone stocked with free paint and cleaners. Lakeville's household hazardous waste site opens spring 2027.

Lakeville just greenlit a wave of new spots — coffee, tacos, a pet clinic, two cannabis shops, and a 215,000-square-foot power company HQ. Here's the whole list.

Apple Valley wants its rebuilt Community Center to earn five times what it does now, and just hired a firm to figure out how.

That empty gas station on 8th Street is finally about to become a grocery store — again.

Hastings might be about to hit the brakes on data centers while the city figures out what they'd actually mean for us.

Over 100 signatures, a packed room, and a unanimous no — the Tower Street apartment fight was the big story of the night.

District 196 finally asked families what they really think, and almost 6,000 of them answered honestly.

Farmer Aaron's sunflower field is back for three weekends, but the rules changed this year and you can't just show up on a Saturday anymore.