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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. -
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.
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Contributed/ICTVTwo residents asked the city to cancel the event's reservation at the City Council meeting May 13, 2024, but the city says doing so would be discrimination.
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.
