State Fair

As DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar prepares to seek a fourth term next year, a strong Republican challenger has yet to emerge.

From Mexico to Ecuador, here are some of the Latino voices making the 2023 Great Minnesota Get-Together diverse and special.

The facility provides plenty of room for people in wheelchairs to get around, and a changing table big enough for an adult. It has a wheelchair lift outside and a lift inside as well.

Longtime crop art promoter and a practitioner get their due at the State Fair this year.

Before you can eat a pronto pup at the Minnesota State Fair, you have to get there first. But some fairgoers are having issues with public transportation, traffic and parking.

It turns out it’s a team effort to get the 90-pound blocks of butter to the fair, with dairy farmers from across the upper Midwest pitching in.

Attendance through the first five days of this year’s fair stands at 791,788 people. That‘s up about 11 percent compared to 2022.

Running the Big Green Pepper and Strawberry Patch is more than just a money-making venture for the extended Ivory family. It’s a labor of love that helps reconnect generations of family members each year at the Minnesota State Fair.

MPR News is back with a second year of “Infrequently Asked Questions” at the Minnesota State Fair. For our first question, who really owns the fair?

People who took the oath were born in countries from across the globe including Somalia, Australia, Colombia, Russia, Venezuela, Eritrea, Mexico and Vietnam. The ceremony was the first held at the fair since 1996.