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John Latimer's official weekly assessment of nature.

The region's new industrial space could help attract new manufacturing businesses.

Several area residents gathered in City Hall on Jan. 30 to share passionate testimony on the loss of labor and delivery services at Essentia Health’s Fosston hospital.

Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College President John Hoffman discussed strategies to pull the regional campuses out of the red and increase enrollment.

Dr. Matthew Hallanger, an emergency medicine physician at Sanford Health-Bemidji, discusses what he's seeing and how to prevent illness from spreading.

The Republican won all but 11 of 80 precincts in Senate District 6 in her April 29, 2025, special election victory. Seven precincts that voted red in 2022 flipped.

School board accepts 4 early buyouts with $10,000 incentive, but rejects the same agreement with principals.

With Minnesota banning imports of live minnows and commercial minnow raising operations few, live bait for the $4 billion fishing industry largely relies on wild harvest.

On Oct. 14, Wesenberg on his official Senate Facebook account posted a photo of Milaca science teacher John Shipman — a Wesenberg constituent — about an interaction he had with him last year.

After arbitrators ruled 2-1 that Essentia Health did not breach the affiliation agreement by ending labor and delivery at the Fosston hospital, leaders remain committed to restoring local control.

A designation change, pending approval from the Centers for Medicaid Services, would move Mahnomen Health Center from a critical access hospital to a rural emergency hospital — the first in Minnesota.

An upcoming "Starry Trek" event enlists citizen scientists to search for the invasive macroalgae, which creates dense mats and is confirmed in 30 Minnesota water bodies.

Bill Berg, retired wildlife biologist, discusses the history of woodland caribou, which once roamed through northern Minnesota. The "Elk and Caribou in MN" series is produced by Mark Jacobs.

House candidate Bidal Duran was a deputy with the Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office last year, when he requested permission to search the cell phones of two men arrested during a traffic stop that turned up a large quantity of meth and thousands in cash.

Jennifer Bonner, Katherine Disterhaft, Mark Forte, Troy Loisel, Tim Riordan, Alan Sherek and Jodi Westby are running for I.S.D. 2909, Rock Ridge, School Board.

Kimberly Bolz-Andolshek, Mariah Hines, Curt Johnson, Susan Mathison-Young and Amy Sjoblad are running for I.S.D. 186, Pequot Lakes, School Board.

To fill some empty positions, the industry has recruited nurses from other countries to live and work in Minnesota on employment-based visas.

A lifelong Crane Laker shows off the area and reflects on the community's history with Voyageurs National Park on the day the Crane Lake Visitor Center opens.

During the week of July 8, 2025, we enjoy reports of snapping turtles, abnormally large squirrels, and oddly-named mushrooms. Staff phenologist John Latimer responds.

Minnesota DNR foresters have begun taking stock of the conditions of the forests and the nearby waters after the Brimson Complex fires burned thousands of acres.