The City of Eagan has officially appointed Salim Omari as its new police chief following his swearing-in at the Tuesday, December 2, 2025, City Council meeting.

The Eagan Community Foundation is celebrating a major milestone after announcing that its annual International Evening of Eagan fundraiser brought in a record-setting $52,000 this year, the highest total in the event’s decades-long history.

An Eagan father already awaiting sentencing in a domestic-related threats case is once again facing criminal charges, this time accused of violently punishing his son, prompting one of his younger children to flee the home and be found wandering alone roughly a mile away.

Authorities are investigating a tragic workplace accident that resulted in a fatality on Tuesday evening, November 18th, at the Thomson Reuters facility located at 525 Wescott Road in Eagan, Minnesota.

A 14-year-old boy was injured Tuesday night after a vehicle struck him while he was riding a scooter near the intersection of Cliff Road and the northbound on-ramp to Cedar Avenue (Highway 77).

Multiple fire departments responded to a structure fire Sunday morning, November 23, 2025, at the Bayberry Place Apartments, located in the 3300 block of Yankee Doodle Road.

A two-vehicle crash Friday afternoon sent two people to the hospital and caused traffic delays near a busy Eagan intersection, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

A three-vehicle crash on Wednesday evening led to significant traffic delays and sent multiple people to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

A Brooklyn Park man is facing felony charges after a high-speed pursuit through Eagan during the early morning hours of Friday, November 7, 2025, that was ended when police deployed a Grappler Police Bumper System to stop the fleeing vehicle safely.

Eagan Police responded to a report of a weapons incident Friday evening in the 4100 block of Rahn Road.

With more than 440,000 Minnesotans, including over 10,000 Dakota County residents, at risk of losing access to their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in November, The Open Door is preparing for what could be one of the most challenging months in its history.

A federal civil-rights lawsuit has been filed against three Eagan police officers, seven Dakota County correctional officers, and Dakota County itself, alleging that their deliberate indifference to a medical emergency led to the preventable death of 50-year-old Kingsley Fifi Bimpong in November 2024.

A brief scare unfolded on Sunday afternoon, October 5, 2025, at the Viking Lakes Residence complex after reports of a suspicious package prompted an evacuation and an emergency response from local police agencies.

Three people have been charged in Dakota County with conspiring to defraud a local grocery store chain through a Western Union money order scam that investigators say stretched across several months and involved nearly $10,000 in fraudulent transactions.

Eagan Fire, Eagan Police, MHealth and Allina Health Medics, and the Minnesota State troopers responded at 3:29 p.m. on Monday, September 29, 2025, to a three-vehicle crash at the busy intersection of Highway 55 and Dodd Road in Eagan, leaving two people injured and sending them to area hospitals.

Prosecutors have charged two individuals in connection with a string of retail thefts at Ulta Beauty stores in Apple Valley and Eagan, with investigators linking the pair to additional thefts across Minnesota and beyond.

A theft investigation at the Twin Cities Premium Outlets in Eagan escalated Monday afternoon when one of the suspects approached officers with a knife, prompting a Taser deployment and two arrests.

The Eagan Police Department has proven the effectiveness of the new Grappler device in the field, after it safely ended a vehicle pursuit that began in Eagan and continued into the city of St. Paul, Minnesota.

A Minneapolis man has been convicted in Dakota County District Court for his role in an identity theft scheme that defrauded victims and a White Bear Lake car dealership out of tens of thousands of dollars.

Over the past several years, Corey Hayes has been tied to a series of armed robberies, burglaries, fraud schemes, and now domestic violence and stalking allegations that paint a portrait of escalating criminal conduct stretching nearly a decade.