A brief shelter-in-place alert was issued Friday evening, November 28, 2025, during an incident in which Lakeville Police officers responded to a report of an adult male in a possible crisis.

Minnesota State Patrol reports two people were injured Thursday afternoon after a Cadillac and a Jeep collided at a busy Hastings intersection.

A shelter-in-place alert was issued Thursday night for residents in the area near Upper 55th Street East and Babcock Trail out of an abundance of caution after a tense situation involving an armed individual.

Multiple fire departments responded early Saturday morning after three residences were found engulfed in flames in rural Otter Tail County. Officials say all three structures are considered total losses, and the cause remains under investigation.

One week after a young woman suffered life-threatening injuries when she was dragged by a vehicle during a dispute, South St. Paul Police have announced a significant development in the case, along with encouraging news about the victim’s recovery.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is investigating an officer-involved shooting in rural Cass County that left one sheriff’s deputy wounded and a male suspect dead Sunday afternoon.

A large police presence was reported late Wednesday night in southeast Dakota County after authorities responded to reports of an armed man near Red Wing Boulevard (Highway 316) and 200th Street East in Ravenna Township, just outside of Hastings.

Firefighters from multiple departments battled a massive overnight fire that began late Sunday, destroying a garage and home on the 9900 block of Arkansas Path in Inver Grove Heights.

The Minnesota BCA has released new information regarding last week’s deadly standoff in West St. Paul, identifying both the suspect who died and the officer who fired his weapon.

A Dakota County jury has found 58-year-old Troy Michael Mitteness of Burnsville guilty of premeditated first-degree murder and intentional second-degree murder for the 2022 killing of his 82-year-old mother, Sandra Viola Mitteness.

Philip Jedidiah Wong, 27, of Little Canada, Minnesota, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the October 2023 murder of 53-year-old Jianqin Zhang, a woman from China, at an Eagan hotel.

Update about a fight that occurred during Fourth of July festivities at the Eagan Community Center on Friday night, July 4, 2025.