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How do you get a booth at the State Fair? Good Question. There are only four new food vendors this year but about 470 people on the wait list. It's a little easier for non-food vendors, where 900 people were waiting for 75 spots this year.
A Twin Cities area pastor is on leave after the Archdiocese says it received a credible sexual abuse allegation.
Two people are dead in two separate fatal car crashes late Thursday afternoon.
The Democratic National Committee barely has more cash than it does IOUs, and it is being outraised month after month by its Republican competitor. Its $24 million debt from the 2012 presidential election, only recently paid down, has squeezed investments in the next White House race.
A Colorado hospital where a Minnesota woman gave birth to conjoined twins said Thursday that one of the babies died after a complicated five-hour separation procedure. Amber McCullough delivered the twin girls, Hannah and Olivia, by cesarean section on Wednesday.
A North Dakota woman has sued American Crystal Sugar, alleging she endured years of sexual discrimination and harassment when she worked at the company's East Grand Forks plant. Janine Bailey filed her lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Minnesota on Thursday.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has put a Roseville priest on leave after receiving what it is calling a credible allegation that he sexually abused a minor in the 1980s. The Rev. Robert Fitzpatrick is pastor at Corpus Christi parish and St. Rose of Lima parish and school.
Family and friends are mourning the death of a 16-year-old boy who fell from a fire escape in south Minneapolis Thursday. Blake Fannin died from injuries after falling four stories. He had been climbing with a friend at a building in Uptown.
The Democratic National Committee is holding its summer meeting in downtown Minneapolis, starting Thursday. All five top Democratic presidential candidates will speak to the state party chairs and super delegates, including Lincoln Chaffee, Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley, Bernie Sanders and Jim Webb.
As we reflect on the 10-year anniversary of our nation's worst natural disaster, one of our own shares her story. WCCO reporter Jennifer Mayerle captured one man's heartache during Hurricane Katrina, and his determination to keep a promise to his late wife
With a steady cadence of drumming setting the tone, Chippewa tribal members set off in canoes into a rich sea of wild rice. They'd gathered on the shores of Hole In The Day Lake, north of Brainerd, in an intended show of civil disobedience. What they wanted to show was the free harvest of native rice without a state required license.
Ye Old Mill is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
The Great Minnesota Get-Together kicked off on Thursday, and the WCCO crew couldn't be more excited.
If there is one place to find a different take on the plain old hot dog, it is at the Minnesota State Fair. Dipped in sweet batter, it suddenly becomes a pronto pup. Add onions and kraut, it becomes the famous footlong. But now there is another option.
For their 2015 season, the Great Minnesota Get-Together decided to go big or go home and released a whopping 51 new foods; 40 dishes and 11 desserts. It may seem like an unapproachable task to taste all new foods, and it probably isn't wise for your wallet or your stomach. So, we've taken on the burden.
