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The KAXE News team won awards across key categories, including Breaking News, Investigative Reporting, and Continuing Coverage.

Erin Stresow will start the position July 7, 2026. She comes from her position as senior director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Colorado State University Pueblo.

The Red Lake Nation's runoff election on July 15, 2026, included the chairman's race between the incumbent Darrell Seki Sr. and former Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain.

The federal immigration activity on July 16, 2026, appeared to be focused in Bemidji's South Shore area.

The group works to inform the PCA on environmental justice issues. Applications are due July 22, 2026.

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency meteorologist Ryan Lueck explains how the PCA measures air quality and puts the record-breaking smoke event into context.

Forty-six lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands were added, including Big Stony Lake near Park Rapids, Emily Lake in Crow Wing County and Birch Lake in Hackensack.

Campfires are now allowed in designated fire rings at Superior National Forest campgrounds, but not at backcountry sites, after updates to fire restrictions July 29, 2026.

The dispensary will be built off Highway 2. The city projects it would make at least $500,000 annually, and it comes in the middle of a stretch of hard budget years.

The Superior National Forest announced the July 31, 2026, openings as Phase 3 of its reopening of the BWCAW, as well as the opening of recreation sites in the western forest.

Nearly 20 years have passed since Bemidji voters approved financing the construction of the Sanford Center. After years of deficits, the Council is considering taking over management.

The KAXE Music Team on new music from John R. Miller, Laura Hugo, Charley Crockett, Nicholas Payton, Butcher Brown, Joy Oladokun, Leon Bridges, and Creekbed Carter Hogan.

Ben Benoit from the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe discusses the role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in fire mitigation. The "Fires in MN Forests" series is produced by Mark Jacobs.

As a seventh-generation Nebraskan, Emma Krab said she looks forward to discovering rural life in Northern Minnesota. She holds a master's degree in Creative Writing and Environment and bachelor degrees in journalism and English.

Aircraft play an essential role in fighting wildfires. Seaplanes from the Ely seaplane base drop water, fire retardant and deliver firefighters — and canoes — to the blazes.

Warm water temperatures across the state go along with an increasing number of fish mortality events, where a large number of fish die at once.

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Yard Act, Orquesta Akokán, The Real Chuck NORAD, Umut Adan & Zebânis, Ezra Collective, Jess Williamson, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, and Ronstadt in '76!

Get to know the volunteers behind the mic on KAXE in Beyond the Voice. This week we find out more from KAXE After Dark host and volunteer, Jerrod Hegwood.

Community members and dancers provided a healing space for the grieving family of Rikki Skog, 37, whose body was found July 16, 2026, under suspicious circumstances.

The company boasts University of Minnesota-linked, homegrown technology that could reduce reliance on the rare-earth minerals industry China mostly controls.