Dairy Queen is marking the first official day of summer by giving away free ice cream – with any purchase. It seems like a pretty good excuse to take a cheat day on your diet. It doesn’t count ...

RELATED: SaturDates: Ice cream, cars and historic sites The never-ending dipped cone saga. Over the years, Dairy Queen has explored a number of flavors for their dipped soft-serve ice cream cones.

Dairy Queen is deeply entrenched in small town America. It grew up there, starting in 1940 when the first location opened in Joliet, Illinois, after J.F. "Grandpa" McCullough and his son Alex developed a system for delivering fresh ice cream directly to customers.

Tony Lena's may still have a location or two left, but local ice cream and doughnut places — something that used to be common and very popular — have mostly gone away.You can blame rising rents, chains,

Beloved DQ treats gone too soon—from Chipper Sandwiches to Treatzza Pizza, these frozen gems deserve a sweet comeback!

The Dairy Queen on Sanibel Island, once a popular spot for ice cream lovers, now stands empty and vandalized. The building has not served a dipped cone since Hurricane Ian caused damage, and now it faces a new setback with graffiti marking its walls.

Minnesota's oldest Dairy Queen reopened under new management in Rochester on Wednesday morning. The North Broadway Avenue location reopened at 11 a.m. by the Pierson family, the shop's new owners.