The Dakota County Attorney’s Office will not file criminal charges against South St. Paul City Council member Pam Bakken, ...

A Prior Lake man has been charged with killing his mother and the following day breaking into a stranger's home and sexually ...

The Dakota County Attorney's Office will not bring charges against Pam Bakken, the owner of a South St. Paul day care where a 3-year-old child allegedly ingested methamphetamine.

Dakota County Attorney Kathy Keena says her office cannot prove the 3-year-old swallowed the methamphetamine while under Pam Bakken's care.

A woman's death in Prior Lake is now being investigated as a homicide, police said in an update on Monday. Details remain limited, but the Prior Lake Police Department said a man is in custody at the ...

A 36-year-old man killed his mother in her Prior Lake home one day last week, then broke into a home in a nearby suburb the next day and sexually assaulted a woman he did not know, according to ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has appointed Kelly Staples as a Dakota County District Court judge to fill a vacancy in the First ...

Dakota County residents can spend the summer wading through local wetlands collecting insects and plants to help scientists ...