Minnesota’s unofficial start to summer comes with limitless outdoor options this weekend, from camping to whitewater rafting — or even just hammocking in the sun.

This week’s Arts Briefs include new concert series, a Thai New Year’s celebration and updates from the arts community. Also in Absolute Bleeding Edge: a multimedia project about beds, and the lack of them.

As the auction selling the HyLife pork processing plant in Windom launches, about half of the plant’s 1,000 workers face an uncertain future.

The Minnesota Legislature has adjourned, but some of what transpired in St. Paul during the last five months lives on in this audio recap.

Boyd is the first female and Anishinaabe superintendent to lead the federal site on the ancestral homelands of the Grand Portage Anishinaabe.

Court records show that Steve Shand entered the plea Friday in a hearing held via video conference.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been impeached by fellow Republicans in a historic vote in the Texas House. He will immediately and temporarily be suspended from his duties.

Edouard Julien also homered as part of a three-hit day, and Alex Kirilloff and Kyle Farmer each had two of Minnesota’s 14 hits.

The four canoers set out from the headwaters at Itasca State Park in Minnesota on May 10. They made their way south accompanied by a team of assistants who travelled alongside the canoe by boat and road.

The driver of the vehicle told police she was at a stop sign at the intersection when the front end of the vehicle began to sink. She escaped from the vehicle.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recently signed comprehensive “right to repair” legislation into law, but such laws in other states are facing hurdles. The laws come as consumers show an increased interest in prolonging the life of the things they own, rather than throwing them out.

The outcome of the case could affect other reservations, including some where Native women are killed at a rate more than 10 times the national average.

The Republicans said Burgum plans to launch his campaign June 7 and spoke on the condition of anonymity because the event had not been publicized yet.

This week's recommendation comes from Emi Lim Morison of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Montana.

The vice president will make history this weekend when she delivers remarks to the 2023 graduating class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which was established over two centuries ago.

The agency says it will strip Morris & Dickson of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers after finding it failed to flag thousands of suspicious orders at the height of the opioid crisis.

Two teenagers were injured and two other teens arrested after reports of a stabbing and fight during an event at Washburn High School in Minneapolis on Thursday night.

The Treasury estimates the country could default on its loans as early as June 1. But negotiators are still hashing out key provisions including work requirements and permitting reform.