And: A 54-year-old Colorado woman will spend a year on probation for her felony obstruction charge stemming from a Line 3 protest in 2021; Leech Lake Secretary/Treasurer Leonard Fineday will now serve in a leadership role with the National Congress of American Indians; and the turkeys pardoned by President Joe Biden will live out their lives at the University of Minnesota.
Chelsey 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.
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.