Author: Staff Writer

Local students took turns operating 26-ton excavators and bulldozers in “Extreme Sandbox.”

A slow start to a Wright County Conference girls hockey contest with visiting Hutchinson Jan. 9, Holy Family Catholic/Waconia scored four goals in the third period, rallying for a 5-3 win at the Victoria Rec Center.

On Jan. 14, hundreds of Minnesotans who have never been this rabidly hopeful in their entire lives will be driving to U.S. Bank Stadium, praying to gods known and unknown that the Minnesota Vikings don’t lose to the New Orleans Saints.

Each week we publish a detail of a local landmark. The next week we identify the landmark. Do you know where the heck this is? Send us your guess.

The National Weather Service has upgraded their weather alert to a “winter weather advisory,” warning the public of snow and slippery roads. 

Exhilarating. Intense. Heartbreaking.

The first 18 minutes were how Bloomington Kennedy wanted it. The last 18 minutes were Chaska’s style of game.

The Chanhassen City Council approved a request by the Paisley Park Museum to serve alcohol at three upcoming private parties during Super Bowl LII week, Jan. 29-Feb. 5.

For a Chaska/Chanhassen girls hockey roster with four seniors, more than half of its goals scored by players in eighth or ninth grade, the 2017-18 season is about two things.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the January 4, 2018

With all the new housing popping up in Chaska, one new structure is the icing on the cake.

Hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans who have been living for years in the United States under temporary protective status got bad news Jan. 8. Their temporary protected status, or TPS, which has allowed them to live and work in the United States legally since 2001, has been terminated by the Trump administration.

When Chaska boys basketball hosted then No. 1-ranked Edina Dec. 19, the large and at times raucous crowd inside the gymnasium wasn’t the only audience for the second top-10 win for the Hawks in a five-day stretch.

The correct answer to last week’s quiz was the Super 8 hotel at 830 Yellow Brick Road in Chaska.

The 2018 flash fiction contest sponsored by the Arts Consortium of Carver County (ACCC) issued a call for submissions. Participants do not have to be Carver County residents.

The last time Amber Daggs spoke to her son, DeSean, was the evening of Jan. 6, when he told her over the phone he planned to go out with friends. He asked when she would be home.

Your weekly look at local news, upcoming events and stories from the last week across the southwest metro. 

An Eastern Carver County Schools Buildings and Grounds Department employee died in Chaska on Monday morning, following an accident in the new sports dome.

CHASKA — An Eastern Carver County Schools Buildings and Grounds Department employee died in Chaska on Monday morning, following an accident in the new sports dome.