Minneapolis, MN
2024 Taste of Minnesota will be back in downtown Minneapolis
Taste of Minnesota has made it official: It will return to downtown Minneapolis in 2024 after moving around and even disappearing for a few years.
The big food and music festival, which traditionally revolved around Independence Day, is set for July 6 and 7 on Nicollet Mall.
Some 100,000 attended last year’s free two-day event, which took place on a three-block stretch of Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis and was judged a hit by attendees and supporters alike.
Taste of Minnesota had been dormant for seven years. First staged in 1983 on the grounds of the State Capitol in St. Paul, the event ultimately became the state’s second-largest festival, behind only the State Fair. It moved to St. Paul’s Harriet Island in 2003. Taste eventually declared bankruptcy. It emerged briefly in Waconia, in Carver County, in 2014 and 2015.
The Legislature allocated a $1.8 million state tourism grant to help stage the event and some of that money could apply to this year’s event too.
No major crimes were reported during last year’s Taste — an important marker for Minneapolis boosters hoping to curb the perception that downtown remains troubled since the pandemic and wanting to reinvent the city’s core as a destination for fun.
Last year’s festival offered concerts, goods ranging from art to marijuana pipes, and eats from caterers, restaurants and food trucks.
Staff writers Dave Orrick and Susan Du contributed to this article.
A homicide investigation is underway after a person was found shot to death inside a car parked along the Mississippi River, the Minneapolis Park Police Department said.
Around 6:40 a.m. Sunday, officers from Minneapolis Park police and the city’s police department responded to a report of a body in a car at Mill Ruins Park. They found an adult with a fatal gunshot wound at the scene, as well as a firearm.
The Minneapolis Police Department’s Homicide Unit is investigating.
Police said the Hennepin County medical examiner will determine the manner and cause of death, as well as the person’s identity.
A teacher at Prairie Seeds Academy in Brooklyn Park is canoeing 1,000 miles down the Mississippi River to help students reconnect with nature, while raising $20,000 for students affected by the federal immigration crackdown in the process. FOX 9’s Maury Glover has the story.
June 1, 2026
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with a fund that opponents fear will be used to pay off the president’s political allies.
Judge Leonie Brinkema in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a brief order halting the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, and other high-ranking administration officials from taking any further action to create the fund or make payments from it.
The order came in a lawsuit filed by a former federal prosecutor and a California professor. The plaintiffs are represented by the legal advocacy groups Democracy Forward and Common Cause. The lawsuit is part of a flurry of legal challenges against the fund.
The Justice Department on May 18 announced a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that will make payments to individuals who believe they have been wronged by past administrations. The fund came as part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the leaking of his tax return information by a former IRS contractor.
Trump’s settlement agreement provides for the creation of the fund overseen by a board of five members chosen by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal attorney. Trump can fire the members for any reason.
Brinkema, a President Bill Clinton appointee, took no position on the legality of the fund in her order. She wrote that her order is to ensure no money is “irreversibly disbursed” while the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order is pending.
She also set a hearing for June 12 — likely ensuring the fund will remain blocked for at least the next two weeks.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include Andrew Floyd, a former federal Jan. 6 case prosecutor who was fired by the DOJ in June 2025, and Joseph Caravello, a California university professor who was charged with felony assault on a federal officer after protesting an immigration raid last summer. A jury acquitted Caravello in April.
The nine-count lawsuit alleges in part the fund violates the plaintiffs’ First and Fifth Amendment rights, and violates the authority of Congress.
“Since its inception, this fund has been on a collision course with the United States Constitution,” their complaint says.
Trump has written on social media that the fund will help those “who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration” receive justice.
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