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KAXE kicks off its 50th birthday year with locally produced beers from Klockow Brewing in Grand Rapids, Bemidji Brewing in Bemidji and Jack Pine Brewery in Baxter.

On June 23rd, 2022, the Medical Staff at Grand Itasca Hospital and Clinic honored KAXE for our dedication to community health during the Covid 19 pandemic in northern Minnesota. Click the player above to hear Heidi Holtan and Kari Hedlund interview Dr. Simon Lick of Grand Itasca.

Marshall Helmberger of the Timberjay reports on newly elected Minn. Republicans Rep. Roger Skraba from Ely and Sen. Nathan Wesenberg from Little Falls, who hosted a contentious community meeting on gun control.

Celebrations all around the region, home to Ojibwe nations, honor Indigenous Peoples' Day with music, feasts, art and more.

Seasonal shifts typically indicative of spring are giving producers a choice when it comes to tapping maple trees: Head to the sugar bush for an early sap run or wait?

The Northwoods Battered Women's Shelter has needed a new facility for 20 years, and on Friday, May 17, 2024, ground was broken for the new facility expected to open in spring 2025.

The trial on whether the city broadens its boundary around the lake or Northern Township becomes a city will take months, as both seek to install municipal services around Lake Bemidji.

In spring, eggs have been collected at Cut Foot Sioux walleye spawning site in Deer River, MN, since the 1920s. Fertilized eggs are transported throughout the state.

According to 2024 data, about 1.34 million women worked in the construction industry. Advocates say while that's an improvement over past decades, women still face barriers in this field, including harassing behavior.

Elevated lead levels are not citywide and vary based on individual service lines and plumbing materials. The event is 6 p.m. at the Memorial Building.

Minnesota is one of 19 U.S. states that have never elected a woman as governor. Across the country, 72 women have filed to run for governor in 2026.

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

Republican Keri Heintzeman and DFLer Denise Slipy are running to represent the Brainerd lakes area, southeastern Cass County, and Grand Rapids and southwestern Itasca County.

Crow Wing and Itasca counties joined over a dozen Minn. counties passing Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions, and an Ely town hall promises to discuss the matter and other legislative topics.

The long-discussed visitor center makes one in each of the park's gateway communities, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Voyageurs' creation.

While Trek North's service trip was initially to a shelter serving asylum-seeking migrants, President Donald Trump's ban on asylum prompted the nonprofit to serve in other ways with the Bemidji students' help.

Author Rep. John Burkel, R-Badger, described the bill as “straightforward, farmer-focused,” with the goal of more timely payouts after wild animals cause damage.

The DNR is authorized under the Minnesota Wildfire Act to recover costs of responding to the Camp House Fire, which burned about 12,070 acres and destroyed 187 structures.

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.

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