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Two by two, couples entered the DeLaSalle High School gym for the grand march, holding hands. They waved to their parents and caregivers as cheers from the crowd echoed amid [...]

Story and photo by Brian Peterson - brianp@startribune.com Olive Dahlbeck, 91, sits on a kitchen chair playing 'Oh! Susanna' on the harmonica. Down the hall, her granddaughter Victoria Dahlbeck packs [...]

Embarrass, Minn. -- A STEAMY TRADITION: As Embarrass reclaimed its title as the nation's cold spot with a temperature of 29 below zero Wednesday morning, 81-year-old Arvo Huhta basked in [...]

PHOTO AND ESSAY BY BRIAN PETERSON - bpeterson@startribune.com NOW YOU'RE TALKING - Leah Spring, a sign language interpreter, uses cued speech with her 9-year-old daughter, Angela. Spring's work with her [...]

A FROSTY GAZE Daniel Campbell and Rachel Mykkanen eyeballed 'Peepshow on Ice' by Witt Siasco, one of the artists involved with the Art Shanty Projects. Huddling like penguins seeking shelter [...]

One in an occasional series of photo essays devoted to the natural world Like a string of pearls on the northwestern Minnesota prairie, Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge - the [...]

Belinda Pedrosa-Valencia, held close to her mother's chest, reached out from under a blanket, her tiny fingers searching for something to touch. Belinda's father made delicate contact with his daughter. [...]

One in an occasional series of photo essays devoted to the natural world As summer begins its slow descent into autumn, we chase the days like there is no tomorrow, [...]

She grew up on a farm northeast of Grand Forks, N.D., and walked a mile and a half to Ashdale School each morning. In that one-room schoolhouse in 1935, 6-year-old [...]

As aging baby boomers look toward retirement, a group of elder gymnasts is challenging the meaning of growing older. Two nights a week at the Turners Gymnastics Center in Mendota [...]

A circle of people gathers before each rehearsal at the Pangea World Theatre in Minneapolis, sitting on the floor around a small candle. A tiny brass bell chimes twice. For [...]

For three years, Julie Schmit has been teaching Hatha yoga to the U of M football team. 'I see such a difference from when the players first come to class. [...]

The recent deaths of six hunters in the woods of northwestern Wisconsin do not help 15-year-old Kaity Drazich, of Savage, explain to her friends why after nine years of playing [...]

Day One I snapped back to consciousness, catching my head as it fell forward, opened my eyes and tried to focus. I must have nodded off for a second. Or [...]

They sat a seat apart, but both of them were worlds away from their home country of Somalia. They both grew up in Mogadishu, but on Tuesday, they were in [...]

One day and counting, and the efforts to get out the vote are hitting overdrive. We wait and watch an election unfolding that is, by most polls, still too close [...]

Outside the Richfield Ice Arena it's a sunny autumn afternoon. Inside, a slap of cool air greets you along with a sign that directs boys to locker room five and [...]

Back when Rod Smith was in college, a soldier from his hometown of Ada, Minn., was killed in Vietnam. Rod went back to Ada to find the young man's father, [...]

The similarities are remarkable: white dome roof, players wearing jerseys stamped with 'Moss' and 'Culpepper,' deafening music, touchdowns, quarterback sacks, cheers and heckles from enthusiastic fans, and big money. But [...]

On a cool summer evening in August, a group of special athletes took the field at Aronson Park in Lakeville to defend their title as champions of the Dakota County [...]

By 11 a.m., the temperature in Duluth has climbed into the mid-80s. The lake breeze that normally cools the port city is still. Katie Piasecki, back; Glo Beattie, left, and [...]

The sun spilled over the high-rise apartment building in the heart of Minneapolis, illuminating a small green plot of land. Digging her hands deep into the loamy soil, Miski Adani, [...]

Nicholas is wearing his camo pj's. He marches from the bathroom, teeth freshly brushed and then bounces into his bedroom. His parents, Lori and Michael Schug, squeeze in next to [...]

She is stunning with her pierced ears, nose and lips. Her elaborately tattooed arms hide the evidence of youthful self-discovery: homemade tattoos, cigarette burns and cutting scars. 'These are all [...]

Paul Soderberg of Velvet Ride Limousine arrived at Hopkins High School in jaw-dropping style. 'Is that ours?' one student whispered, as the $175,000, 38-foot Hummer pulled into the parking lot [...]

By 5:30 p.m., the homework is done, the snack is eaten and the cows are calling. Ashley Terwey, 9, and her brother Tom, 10, lace up their manure-stained boots and [...]

Dressed for work, Cami Zimmer lingers with her 1-year-old son, Jake, as he picks at his morning snack. Her older son Zach, 3, is already busy at the computer. Cami [...]

They say that time is precious, time is money, time flies, time is short. But Joe Svobodny, 70, has learned to make time, and he delivers it to Judy Hunt [...]

Dave Johnson, in cut-off jeans, wool socks and boots, leads the way to the frozen shore of Lake Superior. Johnson, his friend Kinnan Stauber, her 5-year-old daughter, Myra, and Mike [...]

Mike Menner wrestles his bicycle out of a storage room in the basement of St. Stephen's School in south Minneapolis and hauls it outside, up the snow-covered steps into a [...]

Nate Mueller, left, and Tom Keefe gather with their bandmates Jay Thrall, Chris Ash and Bob Lewis religiously on Thursday nights in the basement of Mueller's 1950s rambler in St. [...]

It's hard to imagine that it had never happened before. The Stanley Cup, the Holy Grail of Hockey, the People's Trophy, has served as a baptismal font and a dog [...]

The sun was setting fast as Margaret Smith, 85, gripped two heavy plastic bags of groceries and trudged through fresh snow to a house on the White Earth Indian Reservation. [...]

The hands that once milked cows on a family farm west of Waubay, S.D., now tap delicately on a keyboard in a Minneapolis apartment. Alice Mae Thompson, 84, is composing [...]

Dec. 19: Icicles dripped from the eaves of St. Panteleimon Russian Orthodox church in southeast Minneapolis. Inside, warming rays of morning sun poured through the frosted windows and caromed off [...]

By Brian Peterson and Judy Griesedieck Star Tribune staff photographers Annie Griffiths Belt, who was born and raised in Minneapolis, landed a job doing photographic assignments for National Geographic in [...]

RSEC: + PATIENCE! The key to good wildlife photography. These wild snow monkeys in a thermal pool in the mountains near Nagano, Japan were as curious about me as I [...]

RSEC: + Rick Mitcheltree, 38, late-night cook at Mickey's Diner, St. Paul We get a combination of people, that's what's unique about Mickey's, you know. I've had CEOs of major [...]

RSEC: + Voices for the Land encouraged Minnesotans to write about the land they love, defend its existence, fight for its preservation or just eulogize their favorite place. For the [...]

In late 1999, a committee under the name Voices for the Land put out a call for Minnesotans to write 400-word essays about place they loves, places they would want [...]

'It's just hard,' Alphonse Mathiowetz says, a tone of resignation in his voice. He has spent the past year rebuilding his farm in Comfrey, Minn. 'It's been the most stressful [...]

Photos and text by Star Tribune photographer Brian Peterson What is it about the Minnesota State fair that attracts so many? The record of 1,673,976 in 1996 is likely to [...]

With more and more people getting out to enjoy our Minnesota winter, it's likely that you want to record those moments of toe-numbing joy with the new auto-everything camera you [...]