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Photos: Harvesting sugar beets in the Red River Valley

Photos: Harvesting sugar beets in the Red River Valley

Sugar beet farmers in the Red River Valley are busy harvesting a bumper crop this fall, the second harvest since American Crystal Sugar locked 1,300 union workers out of its five factories in a labor dispute.
by Nathaniel Minor

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Michelle Hensley's Ten Thousand Things Theater

Michelle Hensley's Ten Thousand Things Theater

Michelle Hensley, artistic director for Ten Thousand Things Theater, brings quality theatrical performances to people in prisons, homeless shelters, women's shelter and fixed-income retirement homes.
by Jennifer Simonson

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Photos: Rejected Vikings stadium designs

Photos: Rejected Vikings stadium designs

The Minnesota Sports Faciliites Authority is holding the first in a series of public sessions today to hear out Minnesotans on what they'd like to see in a new NFL stadium to replace the Metrodome. In the meantime, have a look at what won't be on the drawing board. Here are a collection of renderings drawn from the bids of the design teams that weren't selected as architects of the new $1 billion stadium in downtown Minneapolis. The winner is at the end.

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Photos: Vikings fall to Redskins 38-26

Photos: Vikings fall to Redskins 38-26

One week after his first NFL concussion, Robert Griffin III ran more, ran smarter, ran bigger. And won. He left the Minnesota Vikings in his wake, never more so than on his 76-yard touchdown run that put the game away for the Washington Redskins in the fourth quarter.

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Photos: Game 1, WNBA Finals

Photos: Game 1, WNBA Finals

Seimone Augustus scored 23 points and Rebekkah Brunson added 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Minnesota Lynx, but it wasn't enough Sunday night. The team lost 76-70 to Indiana in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals.

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MPR News photos of the week

MPR News photos of the week

This week, we visited a high school choir practice, remembered the late Sen. Paul Wellstone and toured an exploratory drilling site in northeastern Minnesota.

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MPR News photos of the week

MPR News photos of the week

Duluth is building bike trails, there's a labor dispute at the Minnesota Orchestra, the Lynx are playing in the WNBA Western Conference Finals and wildfires scorch parts of northwestern Minnesota. All that and more in our photos of the week.

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Photos: Wildfire threatens Karlstad, Minn.

Photos: Wildfire threatens Karlstad, Minn.

A wildfire destroyed at least six structures as it skirted the small city of about 700 people near the Canadian border. The local nursing home, school, assisted living center and a group home, all in the southern portion of the city, were evacuated.
by Nathaniel Minor

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Photos: Minneapolis neighborhood stunned by shooting

Photos: Minneapolis neighborhood stunned by shooting

Minneapolis police say a workplace shooting in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood that left five people dead is one of the worst homicide scenes in city history.

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MPR News photos of the week

MPR News photos of the week

University Avenue businesses spruced up in anticipation of the under-construction light rail line, apple producers face a tough harvest, and truckers stage a protest in downtown Duluth. All that and more in our photos of the week.

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