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Contributed/Brainerd Police DepartmentCory Degeest was reported missing Sunday, July 13, 2025. She was last seen walking on Beech Street about two weeks ago. -
Contributed/Astera HealthThe center welcomed its first patient on Monday, July 14, 2025. The stated goal of the center is to provide rural Minnesotans cancer treatment with a shorter drive. -
Chelsey Perkins/KAXEDenise Slipy will likely run against Republican state Sen. Keri Heintzeman again in 2026. -
Plus: Denise Slipy announces 2026 Senate District 6 run; Sen. Klobuchar gives speech on floor in support of public media; and Astera Health celebrates the opening of a cancer center in Wadena. -
Contributed/Minnesota Pollution Control AgencyHeavy ground-level smoke from wildfires in central Canada moved into Minnesota behind a line of thunderstorms on Friday, July 11, 2025, prompting an air quality alert. -
Contributed/National Weather Service DuluthRadar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible in the warned area. -
Contributed/MinnPost via Fairview Range Medical CenterFor rural hospitals already operating on tiny margins, looming Medicaid cuts will dial up the financial pressures, said Jean MacDonell, president and CEO of Fairview Range hospital in Hibbing. -
Contributed/Senate Media ServicesMitchell was arrested in April 2024 in Detroit Lakes after police allege they found her in her stepmother’s basement around 4:45 a.m. She claims she was attempting to retrieve some of her late father’s possessions. -
And: Essentia Health advanced practice providers go on strike; and the YMCA and Early EDge to partner on child care in Grand Rapids.
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Lorie Shaull/KAXEOver 400 nurse practitioners and physician assistants across 69 facilities from across Northern Minnesota began an open-ended unfair labor practice strike July 10, 2025.
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.
