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For millennia, the Great Lakes Anishinaabe used traditional fire practices to manage the forests of Northeastern Minnesota. Today, science is capturing the frequency and severity of those fires to understand how communities might recreate their relationship with the land.

The Itasca County early childhood program was long supported by the Blandin Foundation. A new model may be on the horizon, but for now, cuts are needed.

Jennifer Bevis is the senior rural advocacy manager at the Blandin Foundation and sat down for the Q&A session with The Daily Yonder, a nonprofit rural news organization.

Michael T. Egan, Kristine Galatz, Cassie Liubakka, Kim (Kotonias) McLaughlin and Sierra Napoli-Thein are running for I.S.D. 701, Hibbing, School Board.

Pulsar Helium discovered an unprecedented helium deposit near Babbitt, which could make Minnesota the center of the important industry.

Minnesota's wild rice sulfate standard has been in place since the 1970s but has been lightly enforced. With that changing, Rangers are worried about the potential economic consequences.

The DNR added a new rule to the city hunt requirements in 2023. All deer over a year old must be sampled for the always-fatal disease.

KAXE's weekly list of concerts near you features Mudsong and Forge North, Scott Jasmin, and Wild Horses, Cactus Blossoms, Them Coulee Boys and more at Festival Rialto.

Two projects broke ground in mid-August 2025, with another underway and at least four more in the works.

There is still plenty of time to take in Danish recycling artist Thomas Dambo's work in a troll journey around Detroit Lakes and nearby Frazee.

Maygen Lacey and Noah Neumann talked about their bold, years-long creative odyssey behind "The Americana Dream," the album’s adventurous spirit, and they debuted live versions of the new songs.

Jack Aakhus, Todd Haugen, Nicole Jaranson, Carol L. Johnson, Julie Laitala and Ann Long Voelkner are running for I.S.D. 31, Bemidji Area Schools, School Board.

Aitkin, Badger, Clearbrook-Gonvick, Cook County, Crosby-Ironton, Deer River, Hibbing, Lake of the Woods, Roseau, Wadena-Deer Creek, Walker-Hackensack-Akeley, Warroad & Win-E-Mac are the districts with special elections.

Microsoft and NBC, Disney and ABC, Westinghouse and CBS...the line between business and broadcast is growing blurry. Commentator Rueven Frank says broadcasters need to remember the rules in order to minimize the conflicts.

When Mitt Romney said he would cut PBS funding in the first presidential debate — and singled out Big Bird, whom he said he liked a lot — he perhaps inadvertently introduced the befeathered yellow children's icon smack into the center of political debate. President Obama approved a cable-only commercial dinging Romney for going after Sesame Street rather than Wall Street, but Romney appears to think he has a winning hand — castigating the president for focusing on a profitable educational puppet empire rather than big issues, like terrorism in the Arab world.

Retail sales declined 0.6% in November compared to October, the biggest decline in almost a year. For once, declining prices seem to be part of the story.

Birds change the shape of their wings far more than planes. The complexities of bird flight have posed a major design challenge for scientists trying to translate the way birds fly into robots.

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape. An 80 million-year-old bird fossil that sheds light on that mystery.

Previews of a new opera start tonight in Minneapolis. It's about the "Swedish nightingale," Jenny Lind, and her ahead-of-its-time relationship with P.T. Barnum. Barnum was the first to market personality when he brought Lind to tour the United States in 1850. He advertised and put her name on cakes, cigars and soap. And Lind was a savvy businesswoman in her own right. Their relationship fascinated noted contemporary composer Libby Larsen, who wrote the score and co-wrote the libretto for Barnum's Bird. Minnesota Public Radio's Marianne Combs reports.

Retail sales fell sharply in October. It was the fourth straight month in which overall retail activity declined. The October decline of 2.8 percent looks worse than it actually is, however. Take out gas prices, which are declining, and retail sales decline 1.5 percent.