And: More than 86,000 Liberty Mutual policyholders will receive $7.7 million after an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Commerce, rural communities struggle to compete for federal climate change funding, the DNR State Forest Nursery is now accepting seedling orders, western Minnesota could see its first snowfall of the season today, and Grand Rapids is implementing a new community alert system.
Larissa Donovan has been in the Bemidji area's local news scene since 2016, joining the KAXE newsroom in 2023 after several years as the News Director for the stations of Paul Bunyan Broadcasting.
Chelsey Perkins became the News Director in early 2023 and was tasked with building a new local newsroom at the station. She is based in Brainerd and leads a team of two reporters covering communities across Northern Minnesota from the KAXE studio in Grand Rapids and the KBXE studio in Bemidji.