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It’s happening. Minnesota’s fall leaf season is suddenly swelling with color across swaths of northern Minnesota and the Arrowhead. Here are three great places to trek this weekend.

Fort Snelling State Park is the state’s busiest, with about a million day visitors every year. Extended flooding shut the park down for six months and covered parts of it with as much as 3 feet of silt this year. But it reopened Tuesday, just in time for the fall colors to start to turn.

Dozens of people responded to an MPR News query about electric scooters, after a story on injuries related to them. Many complain about e-scooters blocking sidewalks and riders not wearing helmets.

Sarah Thomas of Colorado plunged into the record books with her 54-hour feat. She finished Tuesday and said she was stung in the face by a jellyfish in the process.

Abundant rainfall this year may lead to a particularly vibrant display of fall color across Minnesota — as long as we get some sunny, dry days in the coming weeks.

Drivers in the north Twin Cities metro beware, a stretch of southbound Interstate 35E will be closed for much of the weekend.

Abeer Syedah ate 50 slices of the Twin Cities’ most-recommended pizzas so you don’t have to (but will really want to).

Christopher Ingraham, a data reporter at The Washington Post, found unexpected joy when he moved his family to the county he once called "the absolute worst place to live in America."

Some Minnesotans — including MPR’s Bemidji correspondent — viewed Christopher Ingraham’s 2016 move to Red Lake County as a stunt. But in his new book about the experience, Ingraham reveals how northwestern Minnesota helped restore him and his family. So, yeah, he might be one of us.

Minnesota has always had grapes and grain. Now distilleries and wineries are putting those crops to use in interesting ways. Angela Davis led a conversation about the state’s growing wine and spirits industries.