Here’s what to know before you go to the 2026 Minnesota State Fair, including information on tickets, transportation, attractions, what to bring and ways to save.
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Three rising freshmen and their families reflect on the year since the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School — and their thoughts on what’s next.
The Great Minnesota Get-Together starts at 7 a.m. Thursday. Follow along here to get on-the-ground updates from opening day.
Advocates say delays in Minnesota’s medical release process are keeping terminally ill people behind bars.
A blue ribbon at the Minnesota State Fair might seem like the prize that home bakers covet, but many of the Minnesotans submitting to the State Fair enter year after year for more than a placement. For some, it’s become a tradition, community and duty.
We have pretty ideal conditions out on the Midway, but the sunburn risk is there pretty much all day.
Art Hounds recommend Austin’s downtown arts festival, a Minneapolis exhibition responding to ICE activity and Dede Decker’s contemporary latch-hook art.
Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states.
For the first time in 48 years, the Big Pepper won’t be at the Minnesota State Fair. The family institution served stuffed peppers and fried ravioli.
A federal judge has refused to order Texas to extradite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who is charged with shooting and wounding a man in Minneapolis.
Harper Moyski was one of two students killed in the Annunciation Catholic Church and School mass shooting nearly one year ago. Since then, her younger sister Quinn and Harper’s three best friends have become a support system for each other as they grieve and heal.
Free speech and conservative legal groups are urging a federal judge to order prosecutors to release documents in the Minnesota activists conspiracy case that defendants say could reveal political targeting and First Amendment violations tied to a Trump administration directive.
Polls suggest voters are sick of a two-party system and Minnesota has a history of third-party success. But that doesn’t necessarily mean alternative candidates will do well this November.
