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A day shelter for local homeless families recently moved to Chaska.

Proposed school boundaries would move La Academia into Chaska Elementary and redraw Chaska High School’s borders to include students from outside of Chaska.

Mercury, the messenger of the gods, pops into the evening sky in April, making its best evening appearance of the year. Look to the west-northwest an hour after sunset around the 18th, when it will be

Bob Roepke’s recent column in the Herald of his growing-up years in Chaska, when it was just a small town, brought to my mind some of my own reminiscences (only mine go back a generation earlier than

Sheriff Report

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Wednesday, March 30 that he would not be charging Minneapolis Police Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze in the shooting death of Jamar Clark.

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? (Read more…) Send us your guess.

On this date in history, the Herald reported:

In 2011, a first steamboat in decades docked at Carver.

Canterbury Park Holding Corp. reported Tuesday a 2015 net income increase of 13 percent to $2,727,000, or 64 cents per diluted share in 2015 compared to net income of $2,411,000, or 57 cents in 2014.

Two vehicles overturned in separate crashes over the holiday weekend.

Most have heard the adage “Don’t like the weather? Wait 5 minutes.”

Brenna Mathers, 13, just finished a Girl Scout service project that combines two of her passions — reading and animals.

She’s one of those larger-than-life personalities that is primarily known by her first name alone. Margo.

The answer to last week’s quiz was the the historic Stege-Klammer House, one of the grand homes that stands on the east side of City Square Park.

Jim Ische, of Norwood Young America, has announced he will run for re-election to the Carver County Board of Commissioners.

Job seekers looking for full-time, part-time or seasonal employment can meet with representatives of some of Minnesota’s biggest attractions at the second annual RiverSouth Job Fair on Saturday in Sha

Gary Van Eyll was honored with the Chaska Rotary’s George C. Klein Service Above Self Award at a March 19 gala.

Twin Cities fiber and fabric artist Jennifer Schultz presents her work at The Sower Gallery in Chaska, beginning April 4.