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Photos: Junior skaters get their turn on the ice
At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships underway at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, juniors are competing on ice before the championships this weekend.
Photos: In Otter Tail County barn, sheep shearing takes center stage
Fiber enthusiasts, assorted volunteers and a skilled sheep shearer gathered at Northcroft Farm in west-central Minnesota to tend to 30-some ewes and their woolly fleeces.
Photos: Coping with winter in the Boundary Waters
A Minnesota couple is spending a year in the BWCA in an effort to draw attention to the environmental hazards the wilderness faces.
That's cold: Walsh misses short field goal with seconds left; Vikings lose
Blair Walsh's 27-yard field goal try hooked left with 22 seconds remaining, handing the Seattle Seahawks a 10-9 victory over the stunned Vikings in the frigid cold.
Photos: Vikings beat Packers, claim NFC North
With Sunday's 20-13 win over the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings claimed the team's first division title since 2009.
Photos: Finally, snow
The storm may not have been as big as the forecast promised, but it brought what many Minnesotans have been longing for: snow.
Photos: Behind the scenes at a 'Dream' of a Nutcracker
The St. Paul Ballet staged six sold-out performances of "Clara's Dream," made up of excerpts from The Nutcracker ballet.
Photos: Visual poetry in southwest Minnesota
Tamie Steffen Hornstein's appreciation for the land -- dotted with fence posts and weathered outbuildings -- runs deep.