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A layer of wet, heavy snow fell on Northern Minnesota Feb. 17-18, 2026. Combined with heavy winds, the weather knocked out power throughout the Arrowhead.

Robert Durant will be Mahnomen County's newest commissioner, and Ross Pape was sworn in to the Polk County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 17, 2026.

Minnesota now has just 19 electric school buses, but more than 20 districts are waiting on deliveries, some by the 2026-2027 school year.

Election year ambitions and heightened partisan vitriol are undermining hope for the bipartisan comity needed to pass anything in the closely divided Legislature.

Grand Rapids Riverfest is simply the best party around. Through a fabulous lineup with music that truly matters to the spirit, the festival also incorporates local restaurants and breweries, giving you a literal taste of small town life and culture in northern Minnesota.

Since the early 1970s in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minnesota and Finland, Eric Peltoniemi has worked multiple sides of the music world as a singer/songwriter, guitarist, lyricist and composer for the music theater, and for three decades an executive at acclaimed indie roots label, Red House Records.

Guests are invited to hear about the illustrated biography, which follows the lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Lanklater, a Métis man and Anishinaabe woman.

Kathleen Preece is an associate with Dovetail Partners, an environmental think tank in Minnesota. She and Rich Courtemanche, brewer and owner of Block North Brew Pub in Aitkin, appeared on the Tuesday, April 18, KAXE Morning Show to share more about the event.

The 11 a.m.-3 p.m. event hosted by the Bigfork Parent Teacher Association will have food trucks, a bouncy house, dunk tank, duck pond, face painting and more, including a silent auction.

Distribution events are 11 a.m.-noon April 24, May 22 and June 26 on Great Northern Drive Southwest in Bagley.

The festival features groups from Central Lakes College including Raider Concert Winds, Raider Jazz Collective, Central Lakes Jazz Orchestra and Central Lakes Wind Symphony.

Senior companion volunteers are age 55 and older and visit older adults weekly offering encouragement, sharing their time and talents, assisting with errands, grocery shopping and transportation to appointments to assist older adults in remaining healthy and independent.

Based on input gathered during the first phase of public open houses in January and February, coordination with tribes and agencies, and reviewing technical data and requirements, Minnesota Power and Great River Energy narrowed the route corridor to identify a preliminary route.

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Presenting will be CLC Communications instructor Kari Frisch. Frisch will regale and challenge the audience with stories and images from her extensive time in Greece last year.

The collection showcases photography by four middle and high school youths who committed to a two-week photography camp under the mentorship of artist-in-residence Falcon Gott of Sapotaweyak Cree Nation and three other area professional photographers.

North winds ranging 15-25 mph with gusts as high as 35 mph combined with relative humidity as low as 20% means any fires that ignite may spread rapidly and become difficult to control.

The exhibit includes 20 pieces of mixed media, alcohol inks and acrylic paintings. The artwork on display at the library includes not only a mix of mediums used, but representational as well as abstract subject matters, a news release stated.

The council is a body comprised of Indigenous artists and arts appreciators from the region. The AAI Fellowship is made possible by the support of the McKnight Foundation and aims to assist the region’s most talented enrolled tribal members and descendants in their artwork.

Drawing in students throughout Minnesota from local fire departments and tribal, state and federal wildland fire management agencies, the academy is one of Minnesota's largest interagency fire training events.