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KAXE News Director Chelsey Perkins hosted a candidate roundtable discussion via Zoom with four candidates younger than 35 who are running for office in 2024.

After area voters approved a nearly $40 million referendum in 2022, Cass Lake-Bena community members gathered for the new school's open house on May 15, 2025.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz traveled to Bemidji on June 24, 2025, to assess damage from a hurricane-strength windstorm that wrought a path of destruction three days earlier.

It will be one of the only rural family medicine training programs in MN, training two physicians each year and aimed at encouraging doctors to practice in rural areas.

The indie-rock and alt-country icon's new album features expansive orchestration and a wide-eyed enthusiasm. It's her eighth solo — arriving seven years after "Hell-On."

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says his office prevailed in federal court in this case against a retailer accused of enabling straw purchases of firearms.

Mayor Michael Labine allegedly turned on and off a water valve at least once a year for over a decade without paying the associated fees.

Minnesota James Beard Award-winning authors and chefs Amy Thielen and Hank Shaw talk about the new cookbook "Borderlands: Recipes and Stories from the Rio Grande to the Pacific."

A court-appointed commission voted 4-1 on a new map that now splits the city of Bemidji between three districts instead of two. A judge previously ruled Beltrami County applied an incorrect legal assumption in its now-rejected map.

The investigation revealed a population discrepancy between the ward totals of the city of Bemidji and Beltrami County used for redistricting purposes and the 2020 Census.

The EMS industry faced a $66 million deficit in 2022, according to the Minnesota Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board. Greater Minnesota comprises $30 million of that deficit.

Rallies in Bemidji, Grand Rapids, Brainerd and elsewhere drew thousands of sign-carrying Northern Minnesotans who want the feds' "Hands Off" of them.

The bill would have prohibited eligible centers from encouraging or providing abortions to pregnant women.

In its meeting on April 28, 2025, the Bemidji School Board unanimously approved $1.5 million in cuts from its budget ahead of a $2 million projected deficit starting in fiscal year 2025.

Craig, who has represented the 2nd District since 2019, will battle Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in what is expected to be a grueling and expensive Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary.

The Student-Parent Support Initiative, or SPSI, passed in the 2023 legislative session and gives money to programs that help students with children succeed in higher education.

The locally organized race returns for its 30th year on Sept. 6, 2025, billing itself as a celebration of the famous runner turned fishing guide in his home state.

If a Minnesota landlord accepts a rent payment after finding out about a lease violation, they can’t evict the tenant over that specific breach of the lease.

If you've never tried an exotic dish made from beaver, bear, elk, moose or gray squirrel, you may want to put the Tamarack Sportsmen's Club Wild Game Dinner on your calendar for next year.

KAXE's "Ham Radio" host, cookbook author and James Beard award-winning Amy Thielen weighs in on sloppy Joes, fall harvests and recipes in Northern Minnesota.