There are 70 brand-new brews and specialty beverages that are making their premier at the 2025 Minnesota State Fair. There are also 40 returning beverages found only at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.

The former state senator and medical doctor faced and ultimately lost to DFL Gov. Tim Walz in 2022. His latest bid centers on wanting to “restore Minnesota.”

FBI agents raided five Twin Cities businesses and two homes Wednesday as part of an investigation into Medicaid housing assistance fraud. Twenty-two purported providers collectively billed taxpayers $8 million over 17 months and used fake documentation to back their claims, the FBI alleges.

The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television.

• APM President'Tough choices ahead' at MPR, APM after Senate approves public media cuts

Marlyn Buss, who is considered the founding father of Minnesota Farmfest, died on Friday at 88 in Lake Crystal on what would have been his 55th wedding anniversary. He restarted and expanded the annual exhibition of farm equipment and agricultural products, turning it into a place when rural Minnesotans could come together to make connections and discuss agricultural policy, as well as for entertainment.

Art hounds Jeanne O’Melia, Judy Schumacher and Clark Machtemes recommend music in a gazebo, Shakespeare in a pub and pottery in Hutchinson.