The Lake Elmo City Council unexpectedly let go its city administrator Tuesday by a vote of 3-1, and the council member who made the lone 'nay' vote immediately resigned in protest. City Administrator ...

Lake Elmo is the fastest-growing city in the state — and the clean water supply can’t keep up. The city in the east metro says it’s been using a contaminated well to supplement the water supply as a ...

The demand for city water in Lake Elmo has been so strong in recent weeks that staff sometimes have had to pump from a well that is known to be contaminated with PFOA, a toxin in the class of ...

A group of residents from the Tri-Lakes area in Lake Elmo and Oakdale are asking state officials to provide bottled water until they can get testing done to show whether their private wells have PFAS ...

A Lake Elmo City Council member resigned in protest after Lake Elmo City Administrator Kristina Handt was terminated at the end of Tuesday night’s council meeting. Handt had been city administrator in ...

Stillwater Area School District officials say they may need to look for a new site for a new Lake Elmo Elementary School because of issues regarding access to city water. The Lake Elmo City Council ...

Terry Emerson has worked for years and spent more than $2.7 million to ready 53 acres of land at the northwest corner of Interstate 94 and Manning Avenue in Lake Elmo for development. Emerson, the ...

The Washington County community of Lake Elmo has shut down a municipal well and one of its water towers because of elevated levels of a chemical once discharged by the 3M Company. City officials say ...