Chelsey Perkins
News DirectorChelsey Perkins spent the first 15 years of her journalism career as a print journalist, primarily as a newspaper reporter and editor. In February 2023, she accepted a role as News Director of KAXE in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where she's building a new local newsroom at the station.
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Plus cases of serious fungal disease on the rise in Northern Minnesota, a scholarship encourages people to become community health workers, and designs are being accepted for the new state flag and seal. -
Plus the search for an overdue hunter in St. Louis County, IRRR redevelopment funds distributed in three Range cities, the state searches for more ombudsman volunteers in long-term care facilities, and Minnesota ranks in the top half of states for train collisions.
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Plus a fatal crash near MinnTac involves a vehicle carrying hazardous materials, rainfall improves the state's drought conditions, and Arrowhead Transit leaders lobby for changes to tax law impacting volunteer drivers.
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Plus the Minnesota House Capital Investment Committee visits Grand Rapids, the Northeast Itasca County Rescue Squad is on its way to a new building, Lifesaver Awards honor heroic acts, and an effort to intermingle solar power production and growing food.
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Plus murder charges in an Aitkin County drug overdose, a train hits a logging truck in St. Louis County, and the autoworkers strike is reverberating in Minnesota.
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Plus Itasca County defends its actions in canceling a contract with Grand Rapids-based Lakeview Behavioral Health for IMCare patients, a planned ATV trail gets a funding boost, and October events celebrate old-growth forests in Northern Minnesota.
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Plus a new ATV trail system is in the works in northern Itasca County, a Northern Minnesota tribe gains access to national crime databases, two old-growth forests in the region join a national network, and younger workers are needed to meet climate goals.
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Plus an innovative financial program on the Leech Lake Reservation is creating qualified borrowers, younger workers needed to meet climate goals, and a Minnesota tribe gains access to federal crime databases.
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Plus an update on the death in the Crow Wing County Jail, more information on a proposed cannabis grow operation in Grand Rapids, and ways hunters can help with research on prairie chickens and sharp-tailed grouse in northwestern Minnesota.
