Plus: State Fair considering indoor mask requirement; efforts to preserve Somali language in Minnesota; recreational businesses hurt by drought; and more.

Plus: Future of former Roof Depot in East Phillips neighborhood considered; Minnesota-based dairy’s role in pumping from aquifers questioned; assisted living licensing begins in Minnesota; and more.

Plus: Sunisa Lee wins Olympic bronze in uneven bars; turnover at St. Paul’s Department of Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity; Lloyd’s Pharmacy reopens; and more.

Plus: MyPillow pulls ads from Fox; Sunisa Lee looking forward to college in the fall; being a person of color in  small-town Midwest; and more.

Plus: implementation of law requiring climate change impacts in environmental reviews delayed; Minnesotans celebrate Sunisa Lee gold medal at Olympics; west metro police departments warn of increased auto theft; and more.

Plus: Minneapolis peace activist K.G. Wilson plans to leave the city; air pollution disproportionately affecting BIPOC communities; stalker arrested after sending SUV hurtling toward Cold Spring family’s home; Wild sign Minnesota native Alex Goligoski; and more.

Plus: Rochester man pleads guilty to arson in fire at Minneapolis pawn shop; Mayo will require workers to get vaccinated; understanding Lake Superior algal blooms; and more.

Plus: motorist drives on Capitol lawn during press conference; a California family’s story of moving to Duluth to escape climate change; Minneapolis launches mobile behavioral health crisis response teams; and more.

Plus: OSHA investigating death of Menards employee; victims of triple homicide near La Crosse identified; University of Wisconsin system to offer $500,000 in scholarships to vaccinated students; and more.

Plus: Severe thunderstorms hit northern Minnesota; Dakota County’s Spring Lake Park Reserve to get herd of bison; Vikings ‘in discussions’ with offensive line coach who has refused to get vaccinated; and more.

Plus: homeless encampment in northeast Minneapolis grows; how St. Paul wants to spend its ARP money; Minnesota regulators reject CenturyLink request to modify landline rules; and more.

Plus: a detailed look at Sunisa Lee’s gymnastic routines; Duluth farmers market canceled for season; IDS Center’s Crystal Court gets makeover; and more.

Plus: Minneapolis council approves more funding for housing program; Mayo doctor issues dire warning about delta variant; Twin Cities suburbs embracing market gardens; and more.

Plus: the pandemic’s effects on adolescent pregnancy, STIs; organizing small restaurant staffs; Minnesota county fairs see high attendance; and more.

Plus: Date set for vaccinated Americans to be able to enter Canada; residents and business owners ponder future of Uptown; starry stonewort confirmed in Leech Lake.

Plus: U of M neighborhood sees highest number of criminal incidents in at least a decade; officials issue expanded closure order for BWCA amid growing concerns about Canadian wildfires; rural Minnesota seeing farmland prices surge; and more.

Plus: 3-year-old Minneapolis boy in critical condition after being shot; cluster of COVID-19 infections traced to Anoka County funeral; family of murdered corrections officer sues company operating prison workshop; and more.

Plus: portions of Boundary Waters closed due to fire threat; man charged with setting dumpster fire in Uptown; and more.

Plus: Minnesota blocks public funding of “conversion therapy”; Walz calls for grazing on conservation lands amid drought; Minneapolis barber shop doubles as vaccination clinic; and more.

Plus: Clearing Uptown’s community peace garden; mollusks enlisted to bio-monitor the Mississippi; Benedict’s goes back to tipping; Minneapolis writer goes to Cannes with film adaptation of memoir; double dome house for sale in Eden Prairie and more.