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Plus a Barnum wildfire update, weatherization in the Energy Assistance Program and the potential for frost in the Northland.

Plus, a higher proportion of rural residents live in substandard housing compared to urban and a new Minnesota law seeks to spur more use of cleaner building materials.

Plus a report on substandard housing impacts on rural residents and a solar manufacturing plant in the region says it will add more than 100 jobs.

Plus a Barnum wildfire update, Redby microgrid solar project and weatherization in Energy Assistance Program.

Also covered is a new initiative seeking to bring attention to issues affecting rural voters.

Also covered is hearing checks headed into the new school year and area road construction.

Plus a wildfire burns near Barnum, FEMA awards climate resilience funding to project in Redby and road closures are scheduled today and tomorrow on state highways.

Also covered are EPA livestock rules, the expansion of Milford Mine Memorial Park in Crosby and fundraising efforts for a new fitness center on the Iron Range.

Also covered is a new initiative seeking to bring attention to issues affecting rural voters.

Also covered are PFAS contamination at Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School and consideration of a cannabis muni in Bemidji.

Also covered are free student meals for Minnesota students and the expected Labor Day heat wave across Northern Minnesota.

Plus a federal judge dismisses Twin Metals lawsuit, storm damage falls short of disaster declaration, peat soil presents challenge in Barnum firefighting efforts, and appointments now available under new Driver's License for All law.

Two fatal crashes were reported in northeastern Minnesota Saturday, and more than half of the state is in drought ranging from severe to exceptional.

Plus a hit-and-run death in Deer River, tax-related felony charges against the head of a dog rescue organization and a growth in jobs in the green energy sector.

Plus a contract is canceled between Itasca County and a major mental health care provider, the Polk County Sheriff's Office discovers a body in search for missing woman, the Cass County Sheriff's Office K-9 recovers from significant head injury, and a new state partnership brings suicide prevention trainings to more teacher and other educators.

Plus an update on the financial picture for a new Beltrami County Jail, potential legal action over the lack of obstetrics care in Fosston, and one of the largest remaining private swaths of forest in the state will join the Paul Bunyan State Forest.

Plus the Polk County Sheriff's Office discovers a body near an abandoned vehicle, a case against three Line 3 protesters in Aitkin County is dismissed by a judge, a Cass County K-9 suffers injury during a pursuit, and Mission Township terminates its fire chief because of fiscal and financial irregularities.

Plus mediation for Essentia Health and the city of Fosston over a pause in obstetric care, a robust wild rice season in Northern Minnesota, and a land transfer from the city of Minneapolis to the Red Lake Nation.

Researchers from Boise State University are determining climate impacts of the Greenwood Fire in new LIDAR study, a man was killed in a motorcycle crash in Carlton County, and the Brainerd Lakes League of Women Voters will host Sec. of State Steve Simon.

Plus the firing of a Crow Wing County fire chief, a spike in child poverty and progress on area road construction.