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Fall in Minnesota is so fun - check out all of these great festivals in different areas of Minnesota

Holly Ball 2026 is coming Dec. 5 with the theme 'How Sweet It Is,' raising funds for hospice, cancer, and child advocacy.

Wahkon has fewer than 300 people, but its newest spot is already drawing attention with coffee, ice cream, and a menu built to fill gaps, not create competition.

Field crickets showing up inside the house this time of year is pretty common, and they usually don't stick around past winter.

For about the price of a movie night out, you can walk through recreated Titanic environments and come face to face with real history in Minneapolis.

The St. Cloud Rox pulled off a wild walk-off win Tuesday night, and now they're just two wins away from a Northwoods League title.

The Pan Towners Car Show turns 51 this year, and it's bringing out military equipment, balloon rides, and over a hundred trophies to Sauk Rapids.

Rod Stewart's Minnesota State Fair show is off. A heart procedure has him sidelined for four weeks, and refunds are already in the works for ticketholders.

A Minnesota musician in his 70s still plays 120 shows a year. One of those shows was incredibly special.

Bear is a 55-pound rottweiler mix who sleeps in bed, knows his commands, and is ready to find his people this summer.

St. Cloud Park and Rec is hosting a free Movie Under the Stars event Sept. 12 with Monsters Inc., lawn games, and inflatables starting at 6:30 PM.

A Sartell restaurant tried to rebrand, scrapped the idea after community feedback, and came back stronger with familiar faces filling the dining room.

The Wirth Center has a new home in downtown St. Cloud, and the space inside the historic Daniel Building is bigger and more ambitious than anything they've had before.

The Stearns County Sheriff's Office is investigating an assault involving a weapon in Paynesville.

A workforce development grant from the state of Minnesota will help St. Cloud State University deliver job skills training to a St. Cloud advanced manufacturer.

A St. Cloud man involved in two armed robberies has pleaded guilty and was sent to prison ahead of his sentencing date.

Homeless families are showing up in numbers that local outreach workers say they haven't seen before in the St. Cloud area.

Transportation and traffic safety officials want Minnesota drivers to slow down.

Minnesota just crossed one million primary ballots cast for the first time ever. Stearns County was part of that wave, logging its best turnout since the early 2000s.

Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot just hit $1 billion, making it the biggest U.S. lottery prize of the year so far.

A head-on collision on Highway 27 near Pierz sent two drivers to the hospital Tuesday afternoon after one vehicle crossed the center line.

The St. Cloud primary is done, and the names heading to November are now official across two city council wards and a key legislative district.

Bo Zwiener, a wrestler at St. John's University, was critically injured Monday morning in a single-vehicle crash near his hometown of Blooming Prairie.

An aquatic invasive species has been found in another central Minnesota lake.