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Larissa Donovan/KAXEHosted by the city and the Headwaters Regional Development Commission, a free community picnic drew hundreds to Nymore Park on July 29, 2025. -
Contributed/Shelly TarnowskiA video supposedly of an alligator swimming near Floodwood, Minnesota, gained traction online, and the local conservation officer said people just want to know if it's real. -
Contributed/Minnesota Pollution Control AgencyThe Minnesota Pollution Control Agency extended its initial air quality alert through Aug. 2, 2025, warning of unhealthy air for everyone. -
Contributed/Nett Lake Eagles via FacebookNett Lake aims to reallocate funds to pay for building improvements, and Fisher is trying to pass an operating levy for the third year in a row. -
Dani Fraher/KAXEThe need to expand services continues to grow as cuts to Medicaid and Medicare threaten the stability of rural hospitals, which already run on thin margins. -
Plus: the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office released video of the July 15 officer-involved shooting; Minnesota Power and state agencies heard public comments in Cohasset Monday; and Minnesota's e-bike rebate lottery opens July 30, 2025. -
Megan Buffington/KAXEThe Public Utilities Commission extended the deadline to comment on the utility's plan for providing power through 2039 at the request of environmental organizations. -
Larissa Donovan/KAXEA recent analysis of grant cancellations from DOGE determined that nearly a third of all canceled programs contain the word “tribal,” making it the single most-commonly flagged keyword. -
The state's revenue department will issue rebates on a lottery basis to eligible Minnesotans, with new income and disability requirements from 2025 legislation. -
Contributed/St. Louis County Sheriff's OfficeThe body-worn footage shows the exchange of gunfire between sheriff's deputies and Adam Clinton Wolf, 57, of Normanna Township, who died at the scene from gunfire.
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.
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.
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.
Dani Fraher is a journalism student from the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. They are reporting for KAXE for the summer of 2025 as part of the school's Report for Minnesota internship.
