MINNEAPOLIS — Legendary Australian rockers AC/DC are Minnesota-bound for the first time in nearly a decade.

Now in their 51st year, the band will kick off the North American "POWER UP Tour 2025" at Minneapolis' U.S. Bank Stadium on April 10, 2025. Tickets go on sale on Dec. 6 at noon.

"Acca Dacca," as they're fondly called by fans, last visited the Twin Cities on Valentine's Day 2016, when they thunderstruck St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center.

The band has endured hardships and tragedy since that visit, with lead singer Brian Johnson departing the band soon after due to concerns about his hearing. More than a year after the Xcel stop, rhythm guitarist and co-founder Malcolm Young died from complications of dementia.

Johnson has since returned to the stage and will be joined in Minneapolis by the band's only surviving original member: the schoolboy-uniformed guitar god Angus Young. His nephew, Stevie Young, will be on rhythm guitar duty.

AC/DC's most famous album, 1980's "Back in Black," is one of the best-selling records ever, and was certified 27x times platinum this summer by the Recording Industry Association of America. It was also their first album to feature Johnson following the death of singer Bon Scott earlier that year.

The band will visit a dozen other cities on the 2025 tour, including Vancouver, Las Vegas, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Tampa, Nashville and Chicago.

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The new pop-up exhibit will run through Dec. 28, telling the story of Minnesota through our sports teams.

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MINNEAPOLIS — As the iconic Dayton's building on Nicollet Mall comes to life this holiday season, there's a new exhibit on the lower floor that sports fans young and old will want to see.

The Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame Experience, which opened Black Friday and runs through Dec. 28, tells the story of our state through our athletic triumphs and tribulations. Sharing the same hours as the popular Dayton's Holiday Market upstairs, the free exhibit takes visitors through more than a century of Minnesota athletics.

Forged by a partnership between the Minneapolis Foundation, the Minnesota Star Tribune, Meet Minneapolis and other stakeholders, the Hall of Fame pop-up exhibit has been an idea of former mayor R.T. Rybak for more than a decade.

Rybak, who now leads the Minneapolis Foundation, said he originally wanted to put a Hall of Fame display at the Armory to coincide with the opening of U.S. Bank Stadium. Now, more than a decade later, his concept has finally come to fruition inside one of the city's most recognizable buildings.

"One of the things about a museum is you can tell a story through whatever prism you want," Rybak said. "Right now, it's kind of a tough period to get people to all believe in the same thing at once. It's great as Minnesotans that we can all believe in the same teams at once, even if they usually lose!"

Jokes aside, the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame Experience actually helps to shine a light on the state's many athletic successes by breaking down the history into six distinct eras.

The exhibit begins in the late 19th century by showcasing sports like Indigenous lacrosse games and early women's basketball. From there, the Hall of Fame winds forward through time, from the dominant Gopher football program under coach Bernie Bierman that earned five national championships in the years before World War II, to Olympic heroes and the Metrodome, to the rise of women's sports and the emergence of a pro sports market in the early 1960s.

It's also a unique use of space inside The Dayton's Project building, which went into receivership this fall due to financial troubles.

"I really hope it shows people what we have in Minneapolis that maybe they've forgotten about," said Kathy McCarthy with Meet Minneapolis. "I just think that this building and the history of this building, and using it to also showcase Minnesota sports history, makes perfect sense."

As the exhibit opened Friday morning, dozens of curious shoppers wandered from the Dayton's market down the stairs to the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame Experience. It became an instant hit, particularly the interactive elements that allowed visitors to touch part of the Metrodome roof or see artifacts from Sid Hartman's old Star Tribune office.

Jack Elsberry, a younger fan visiting the Dayton's building with his family from North Dakota, said he learned a lot from the exhibit.

"I've been a Twins and Vikings fan for a long time, so it's just really cool to see the history and stuff," Elsberry said. "This is kind of about when Minnesota sports were better."

MINNESOTA — If you’re planning to put up a live Christmas tree this year, it’s a good idea to scope out what will be available from Minnesota area tree growers.

There are more than 16,000 Christmas tree farms in the United States, stretching over 292,050 acres, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Larger tree farms control about 75 percent of the supply, but if you’re interested in supporting a local business this holiday season, here are some Minnesota State Fair-award-winning places to chop or pick out a tree within driving distance of the Twin Cities metro area:

Recent data from the American Christmas Tree Association’s 2024 Consumer Report shows 99 percent of survey respondents intend to display at least one Christmas tree in their homes this year, and among them, 22 percent will opt for a live tree.

According to PickYourOwnChristmasTree, real trees will cost about $13 a foot, depending on the type of tree. At that cost, a typical 7-foot tree would cost about $90.

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Years of extreme weather — drought conditions in some parts of the country and excess moisture in others — have affected Christmas tree farms.

This year, attention is focused on the Northeast, where tree farmers are struggling under severe drought conditions that are killing off young trees and could cause future shortages.

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, about a fourth of the region was in severe to extreme drought, which hits young trees especially hard. It typically takes a tree seven or eight years to grow to the desirable height for decorating.

“Christmas tree farms in the Northeast have, unfortunately, been hit with drought conditions that will impact the crop for several years to come,” American Christmas Tree Association executive director Jami Warner told CNN.

“While consumers will be able to find their Christmas trees this season, some growers in the Northeast will not be able to harvest as many trees as they have in past non-drought years,” Warner said.

Many Minnesotans are about to see their first snow of the season, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service.

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TWIN CITIES, MN — Snowfall totals for the Twin Cities and the rest of central Minnesota have ticked up slight since Tuesday. The metro is now expected to see around an inch of snow, if the latest forecast holds.

"Strong northwesterly winds may gust up to 40-45 mph across western Minnesota today," the National Weather Service said.

"Scattered snow showers will also combine with breezy winds to reduce visibility. Minor accumulations of up to around an inch or so can be expected for most locations, with some locations in far western Minnesota possibly receiving around 2 inches of snow accumulation."

Looking ahead, temperatures across Minnesota are expected to be slightly colder than normal on Thanksgiving Day and through the start of December.

Here's the full NWS forecast from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport:

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Wednesday: Snow, mainly before 1pm. High near 34. West wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Wednesday Night: A 50 percent chance of snow, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. Northwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 39. Northwest wind around 10 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 28. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. East southeast wind around 5 mph.

Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Monday: A slight chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 34. Northwest wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 31. West wind 5 to 10 mph.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Rap's reigning hater-in-chief Kendrick Lamar will kick off his next tour in Minneapolis.

The Grand National Tour will begin April 19 at U.S. Bank Stadium, the Compton native announced Tuesday. Presale starts Wednesday and the general public can buy tickets starting Friday at 10 a.m. Ticket prices have not yet been announced.

Grammy-winning artist SZA will open for Lamar on the tour.

The tour announcement comes a week after Lamar dropped his long-awaited new album "GNX."

Lamar has spent most of this year embroiled in a feud with fellow rap superstar Drake, culminating in Lamar's release of "Not Like Us," a diss track that stood atop the Billboard rap charts all summer. In a lawsuit filed last month, Drake's company Frozen Moments accused Spotify and Universal Music Group of conspiring to inflate the streaming numbers of "Not Like Us."

"GNX" is Lamar's sixth album and his first since 2022's "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers." He stopped in the Twin Cities in support of that album, too.

Lamar is set to play the halftime show at Super Bow LIX on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans.

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