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During the week of Sept. 9, 2025, we enjoy reports of Broadwing Hawks, migrating insects, and vibrant sumacs. Staff phenologist John Latimer responds.

A similar hearing for Bemidji residents will be hosted at the Sanford Event Center on Oct. 8, 2025.

Twelve Northern Minnesota teams will race in the Twin Cities on Nov. 1, 2025, plus 37 individual qualifiers from across the Northland.

Child care providers, local officials and families discussed the high costs of child care and the low wages of child care workers during the Bemidji Affordability Forum on Dec. 3, 2025.

"No Travel Advised" means the visibility has been reduced to the point that it is very dangerous to travel in parts of Minnesota.

Klobuchar visited with Conservation Corps members, local and state fire officials and others during a follow-up on recovery from a devastating wind storm in June 2025.

Later in the meeting, the Bemidji City Council voted to eliminate online meeting participation after a "Zoom bombing" on Feb. 5.

Data from Mentor North in Duluth indicates youths who have a mentor are 55% more likely to enroll in college and are 78% more likely to volunteer regularly.

Guadalupe Lopez began leading the first-of-its-kind office in late July. The Department of Public Safety highlighted her unique mix of personal and professional experience.

If you’re curious about how Green Cheese Trivia got it’s name almost 40 years ago, listen to or read the conversation between Heidi Holtan and Green Cheese Accidental Founder, Scott Hall. Click the "Listen" player above to enjoy this piece of KAXE history.

Dancers of all ages participated in the Funtastic Dance Follies at Bemidji State University this weekend. The event started in 1945 and features several local dance groups.

People filled the chairs, stood in the doorway and sat on the floor in Grand Rapids City Council chambers, and commissioners said it might have been the most well-attended Human Rights Commission meeting ever.

The Boys and Girls Club of Greenway merged with the club in Grand Rapids in 2024 due to a lack of proper staffing.

The YMCA will sublease one of its classrooms in the Itasca Resource Center in Grand Rapids, and Early EDge will use the space to teach and care for 3-year-olds.

There are 24 House committees, and all but one has at least one Northern Minnesota representative. There are also four house committee chairs from rural Northern Minnesota.

Family and fishing are big at the Kitchi Landing Resort south of Blackduck, which was once operated by Val Engelman's great-grandfather as Hagen's Resort.

Township officials estimate more than 300 people attended the informational meeting on incorporation into a new city on May 7, 2025.

If a bill by Rep. Ben Bakeberg, R-Jordan, becomes law, only students enrolled in high-demand programs would be eligible to receive the North Star Promise scholarship.

The Judy Garland Museum and Mobility Mania in Grand Rapids attempted to set the world record for most people in wheelchairs dancing in one place at one time.

The state funding will help create or preserve housing in Hibbing, Mahnomen, Bemidji, Warren, Grand Rapids and other communities in the region.