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Gates at the Minnesota State Fair open Thursday in Falcon Heights. Hundreds of thousands of people will stream through those gates over the next 12 days.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has decided not to review the environmental lawsuit against Minneapolis’ 2040 Comprehensive Plan. The plan increases housing density in the city and ends single-family zoning. The lawsuit filed by two citizen groups alleges that city leaders failed to do the required environmental review. 

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Minnesota State Fair 101: Your guide to the Great Minnesota Get-Together for 2024

2040 plan continues after Minnesota Supreme Court decides not to look into lawsuit

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Gov. Tim Walz has a big speech to deliver tonight at the Democratic National Convention.

And work on the state's next two-year budget and other policy provisions continues behind the scenes while Walz is on the campaign trail.

Those stories and more in today’s evening news update. Hosted by Emily Reese. Music by Gary Meister.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz takes center stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Wednesday night. Walz and his wife Gwen this week detailed their use of a fertility treatment to grow their family.

And the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd has been moved to another prison.

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‘Lunch pail kind of guy’: Walz aims to hone image as GOP paints different picture of VP hopeful

Gov. Tim Walz and wife Gwen Walz detail experience with fertility treatment, explain it wasn’t IVF

Ex-officer convicted in George Floyd's killing is moved to new prison

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As Democrats celebrate top leaders including Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Republicans in the state want to remind voters of Walz’s record of what they term excessive spending and regulations. Meanwhile, get out the vote campaigns ramp up.

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Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan helped gavel in the Democratic National Convention Monday night in Chicago. And one of the officers who held George Floyd down while Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck is being released from prison Tuesday. Thomas Lane will be under the supervision of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections for a year through a contract with Minnesota's corrections department.

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Ex-cop convicted in Floyd killing set for release

Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago, with a spotlight on Minnesota

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Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is set deliver the first of the welcoming remarks to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as Gov. Tim Walz prepares to accept the party’s nomination for vice president. Flanagan is one of the co-chairs of the convention. And, Minnesota remembers George Latimer, who served as mayor of St. Paul from the late 70s to 1990. Latimer was 89.

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The Democratic National Convention gets underway Monday in Chicago. With Gov. Tim Walz as Kamala Harris' vice presidential candidate, the Minnesota delegation will get preferred seating and a lot more attention than it otherwise would.

And Hennepin County Commissioners are planning to take a vote Tuesday on a more modest pay increase after public criticism of its previously proposed 49 percent pay bump. Commissioners are now proposing to increase their own salaries by five percent for each of the next two years. 

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Minnesota gets front-row role in Democratic National Convention with Walz on presidential ticket

Hennepin County commissioners withdraw proposal to give themselves a 49 percent pay bump

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The overall number of reported violent crime in Minnesota last year was lower than the previous year, according to the latest data released today by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

And investigators suspect that a semi-truck driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol when he struck four other vehicles near Duluth this week and killed four people.

Those stories and more in today’s evening update from MPR News. Hosted by Emily Reese. Music by Gary Meister.

Southbound I-35E will be closed from the I-35 split in the northern Twin Cities to I-694 over the weekend. And the Minneapolis City Council has approved a $275,000 settlement with a man who alleged he was choked and punched by a police officer in 2020. 

Beginning in 2026, ten prescription drugs for Medicare recipients will be less expensive.

And both major-party candidates for vice president have now agreed to at least one televised debate.

Those stories and more in today’s evening update. Hosted by Emily Reese. Music by Gary Meister.