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Mitchell was arrested in April 2024 in Detroit Lakes after police allege they found her in her stepmother’s basement around 4:45 a.m. She claims she was attempting to retrieve some of her late father’s possessions.

Warming water may have an outsized impact on the legendary lake, which has been protected for decades.

The U.S. Forest Service will close its decades-old Grand Rapids research office as part of a national reorganization. The lab produces world-renowned work on woods and water.

Nearly 9,000 acres are estimated to be burning in the BWCA as of July 13, 2026, and the closure is for public safety. The Boundary Waters is not expected to fully reopen this summer.

While Democrats running for the U.S. House have an advantage this year, Stauber has positioned himself well in the Iron Range district.

Kevin Boyles, Michelle Brekken, Stephanie Etterman, Jody Kalenberg, Andrew Mendez, Michael Stromberg and John Ward are running for I.S.D. 181, Brainerd, School Board.

Sharon Ball, Wayne Hiebert, Pete Kalar and Andrew Donald "Jesus Dubs" Piekarski are running for International Falls mayor.

Trump has vowed to reverse the Superior National Forest mining moratorium as a priority after he’s sworn in, which he can do under his executive authority.

Bemidji Area Schools is considering consolidating its elementary schools by closing J.W. Smith, and community members are urging the Board to look at other options.

The fallout could affect consumers and businesses across the country, but Canada targeted many of its tariffs to inflict political pain just ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.

KAXE covered pushback on the LGBTQ+ community, changes in rural health care delivery, a coal ash spill at Boswell Energy Center, tribal land back efforts, helium mining and more.

The vote on Tuesday, Nov. 7, will ask how to fund a planned 242-bed facility: a five-eighths percent sales tax or an increase in property taxes.

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.

The district estimates closing the school, which serves second and third grade, will save it at least $516,000 as it works to address a $2 million budget shortfall.

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.

Mino-bimaadiziwin is Ojibwe for "living a good life." Jennifer Compeau and Jason Gourneau shared how they moved from addiction to stability by leaning on culture.

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.