MPR News photos of the week

Abandoned farm
Hoar frost covers an abandoned farm near McGivern Park in Staples, Minn.
Photo courtesy Janice Winter

This week, Republican presidential candidates visited the state, we looked at the expansion of sand mining and visited the Ice Hole -- a bar on Lake Lida.

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