Call it a sugar rush, but the activity never stops at Minnesota's Largest Candy Store — even when it's closed for the season.
Emily Tiritilli made her own birthday cake for her 17th birthday in September, a pretty-in-pink vanilla confection covered in frosting swirls, sprinkles and a vanilla icing drip. It was both a sweet treat and an inspiration for the Prior Lake High School student.
Black Friday came a few days early at downtown Prior Lake’s D. Copperfield Jewelers on Tuesday, the first day of its going-out-of-business sale.
Metro Millers Baseball LLC announced Monday that its proposed 8,500 capacity stadium is aiming to build somewhere within Canterbury Commons, adjacent to Canterbury Park, and organizers want it to throw its first pitch in spring 2021.
LeeAnn Waddell, a tailor living and working just south of Prior Lake, is taking it easy in semi-retirement these days by working just 40 hours a week — not 80, as she did in her heyday.
Prior Lake-based builder Key Land Homes earned a Reggie Award from Housing First Minnesota for one of its homes last month, the company recently announced.
Tucked in a corner across from an ice cream shop at Keg and Case Market in St. Paul is a wooden shop that looks like a dry bar in your rich uncle’s basement. Shelves are lined with bottled drinks called Switchel Fizz, and customers can walk up to a keg to pour themselves a bubbly sample of e…
An Airbnb-style service for finding space to store vehicles, boats and trailers has come to Minnesota.
A new children’s book by a Prior Lake native and her husband is about choosing to step out into new adventures while still coming back home at the end of the day, they said this month.
The news brought tears of joy to Melanie Cole and Vicky DeRouchey’s eyes: The UGO Wear tablet, the second product from their Prior Lake company, was named best new product overall at an international boat show in Rhode Island.
Months of construction on highways 13 and 21 has created a maze of no-turn-signs and put parking spaces at a premium in Prior Lake’s business centers for months.
Six Flags Entertainment Corp is considering merging with Cedar Fair LP, which operates Valleyfair, Reuters reported this week based on findings from a confidential source. The two entities are the country’s largest amusement park operators.
Five businesses from four Scott County communities have been selected as finalists for this year's FAST-TRACK Challenge.
At 7:30 a.m. on a hazy October morning, Ella, Carlos and Blanca Correa were already a couple hours deep into their work shifts. Joshua Correa was already on his way home after working through the night preparing hundreds of doughnuts for Shakopee locals and passersby.
Shakopee-based Cameron’s Coffee and Distribution Company was acquired Sept. 18 by Grupo Nutresa, a Colombia-based food processing company, for $113 million, according to a recent press release from Grupo Nutresa.
A Burnsville eye care clinic has moved to the Prior Lake-Savage border for double the exam rooms and space for patients.
A downtown Prior Lake acupuncture clinic and health store now has its own yoga studio.
Prior Lake Fitness has taken the place of BRX Fitness, which closed its doors in May near downtown.
BrightStar Care, a national home care franchise, opened in Savage this month to serve residents throughout Scott and Carver counties.
A new co-working space in Prior Lake will give on-the-go professionals a place to work, meet and relax, its owners said at a ribbon-cutting earlier this month.
Workers at the Shakopee Amazon fulfillment center will participate in a strike on one of Amazon’s busiest days, Prime Day, July 15, from 3 to 6 p.m.
Two Prior Lake businesses are teaming up to create a do-it-all dancewear boutique that also provides custom-designed leotards for Prior Lake dance community.
In 1994, Mark Glewwe’s interest in brewing beer in his Spring Lake Township home got out of hand fast. When he pitched the idea of running a tap from the basement through a hole in the kitchen counter, his wife, Laurel, told him to get out.
Amazon is offering hour-long tours for families to explore the 850,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Shakopee this summer.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell will be featured in the ninth episode of a new A&E television series called ‘Addiction Unplugged,” which will premier Aug. 24 at 1 p.m.
Stop by the Canterbury Park horse stables on a weekday morning, and you’d think you were in a different town. Trainers and groomsmen massage the calves of their horses, and jockeys nod their helmets as they ride past. Trucks glide through the dirt, kicking smoke in the air and into the nostr…
In the brewhouse, Jake Rimnac opened up a bag, pouring malt into the miller. Soon, another batch of beer was brewed at Badger Hill Brewing Company in Shakopee.
A trio of local entrepreneurs partnered with former Viking linebacker Chad Greenway to create, promote and supply native Minnesota vodka to Prior Lake restaurants and beyond.
Dwarf goats’ hooves, it turns out, can help with tense backs and shoulders.
The State Bank of Faribault this month is opening its first location outside of Faribault in Prior Lake, the bank announced Wednesday.
A Savage art studio teaching kids from infancy to their tweens about pottery, painting and even a little art history marks one year in business this month.
A Savage kickboxing gym closed abruptly this week, with a statement left on the door and online saying the owners could no longer make it work.
Some horse racing publications are crying foul over what they consider a light penalty and lack of explanation after a Canterbury racehorse tested positive for a banned drug after winning an August race.
For the first time since April 2015, there were more homes listed for sale in the Twin Cities metro than the same month the year prior, according to the Minneapolis Area Realtors.
Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of East Africans, union members and supporters protested at the Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee Dec. 14 prompting dozens of police officers and state troopers to converge on the protest when the group headed toward the doorstep of the massive Amazon warehouse.
Savage native Mike Johnson is among scientists who believe that nanomaterials are the next big — well, actually, extremely small — thing in engineering.
As of September, Scott County’s unemployment rate was just 2 percent, putting the squeeze on employers looking for workers.
Ruck's Meat Processing in Belle Plaine voluntarily recalled a variety of sausage products that could have Listeria monocytogenes.
When I think of fall, I envision myself someplace calm and colorful, the breeze blowing through my hair and the scent of falling leaves drifting by me.
Readying your landscaping for winter isn’t the only goal on that fall yardwork checklist, Landscape Designer Jodi Gehrke says.
If you like to be scared in dark mazes or seek a family-friendly trick-or-treating experience, then the 13th season of ValleySCARE might be for you.
Chicago steakhouse meets central Texas barbecue meets the Golden Age of American cocktails.
It is a family affair at Anchor Boutique in Prior Lake.
Eden Prairie-based grocery wholesaler Supervalu is being acquired by Rhode Island-based United Natural Foods Inc. for about $2.9 billion, the companies announced on Thursday, July 26.
President of New Market Bank and Prior Lake resident Anita Drentlaw was named a 2018 Rising Star in Banking by NorthWestern Financial Review/BankBeat magazine.
Chef Miguel Urrutia is particularly proud of the mole sauce. The recipe came from his mother, who is 83 years old, “stubborn as can be,” still lives in Mexico and resists any and all attempts to help her in the kitchen.
Prior Lake resident Manny Perez had his eye on his hometown Subway at 16711 Duluth Ave. SE for the last three or four years.
