This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. County fairs are a little like beauty pageants for animals. The way we selectively breed goats and sheep has shaped ...

Aria Ingenito of Waconia, Chloe Stromberg of Minnetonka and Page Summers of Minneapolis will represent McLeod County at the Minnesota State Fair. ©2025 MediaNews Group, Inc. Visit at twincities.com.

Due to the extreme recent weather across southern Minnesota, the Mower County Fair said the Smashing Cancer Demolition Derby in Austin will need to be rescheduled.

CALEDONIA, Minn. (WKBT) – The Houston County Fair is underway in Caledonia. The four-day celebration started Wednesday morning. Music, animal exhibits, food and games are on the schedule.

The Happy Together Tour will return to the Minnesota State Fair this summer, bringing hits from the 1960s and 1970s back to the Grandstand. The tour features The Turtles, Jay and the Americans ...

The Minnesota Old West Society will be at the Scott County Fair daily this week, performing re-enactments and educating fair-goers about what life was like from 1865 to 1899. Learn about cooking ...

GRAND FORKS — The Greater Grand Forks Fair is dipping its toes into more agricultural features to give it more of the county fair feel, said the fair manager, and a new mascot is part of it.