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Plus: a search for missing canoeists in the BWCAW continues; a wildfire starting from a prescribed burn is contained; and the Minnesota Legislature ends in chaos. -
Larissa Donovan/KAXEThere wasn't enough moisture last winter to extinguish Canadian wildfires that are blazing again, leading to an early start to smoky skies above Minnesota. -
Plus: Health professionals and air quality forecasters are predicting a heavy season of Canadian wildfire smoke this summer, and students learn a little about life with Trout in the Classroom projects.
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Larissa Donovan/KAXEFor the past 110 days, students in classrooms across Minnesota learned about ecology and more as they've raised 300 trout from eggs to fingerlings. -
Contributed/Meds 1 AmbulanceIf it weren’t for the numerous challenges they have and continue to face, Jim and Suzanne Ducharme say they probably would have continued to run the business. -
Plus: Grand Rapids' locally owned ambulance service is sold to a large health care organization; and a Hibbing soldier receives a proper veterans headstone, more than a century after his death.
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Lorie Shaull/Special to KAXEThe City Government Academy brings us to the Grand Rapids Area Library — a place so much more than the books within. -
Plus: Crow Wing County selects a new administrator; BI-CAP receives $1.4 million grant for workforce development; and a Brainerd teacher receives a statewide award for agriculture in the classroom.
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Megan Buffington/KAXEGrace House of Itasca County is the county's only homeless shelter and has been open since 2006. -
Plus: Potato producer sues White Earth Nation over water regulations, and Highway 169 detour extends to Aitkin on Monday.
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.
Megan Buffington joined the KAXE newsroom in 2024 after graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Originally from Pequot Lakes, she is passionate about educating and empowering communities through local reporting.
