Each year, the Prior Lake Association organizes its annual boat parade and fireworks display. In addition, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community hosts its own fireworks show; this year ...

Valdez said witnesses reported that a man, later identified as Troy Schaap, had jumped from a pontoon boat about 20 feet from the shore of Bikini Island on the Rusk County side of Lake Cherokee.

For more information on the boat parade, call (952) 447-4300. The Prior Lake Association and the city will host a Fourth of July fireworks show on Friday, July 4 just after 10 p.m. at Watzl’s ...