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Plus: Red Lake Band and Region Five Development Commission receive millions for energy projects; MnDOT reminds campaigners that signs are not allowed on right-of-ways; and the clean energy transition has sparked conversations about agricultural land use.

Nonprofit group Majority in the Middle is holding a statewide free Zoom conversation Saturday, Feb. 17, from 10 a.m - 11 a.m. “Silly Questions Saturday – All About Elections” with Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon.

Red Lake Nation's charter school, Endazhi-Nitaawiging, recently partnered with the Nature Conservancy for a new pontoon, with a few school families braving cool temperatures to celebrate its arrival on Nov. 12, 2025.

Monarch populations have declined due to habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change. Monarch Joint Venture seeks to address these challenges with on-the-ground conservation work, scientific research and public education.

Plus: Ten Northern Minnesota communities selected for DEED grants; and MN boasts 64,000 clean energy jobs despite an uncertain future.

Cy Musiker of member station KQED offers a tale of two California homes struggling to find ways to conserve energy in the wake of the state's power crisis.

Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being” is an exciting and meaningful story with well-crafted twists. Staff librarian Tammy Bobrowsky and children’s librarian Tracy Kampa dive into the Newbery Award winning novel in their latest Mini Book Club conversation.

In remarks today before The American Conservative Union, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour sought to unite a party divided over the candidacy of Pat Buchanan. The conservative group also heard from the executive director of the Christian Coalition, Ralph Reed. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

Former Top Chef contestant and Minnesota chef Justin Sutherland released his first cookbook, Northern Soul – Southern-Inspired Home Cooking from a Northern Kitchen, in 2022.

Author Sherry Turkle is concerned that we are outsourcing too many of our conversations to screens and robots. "Face to face conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do," she says.

If you’re curious about how Green Cheese Trivia got it’s name almost 40 years ago, listen to or read the conversation between Heidi Holtan and Green Cheese Accidental Founder, Scott Hall. Click the "Listen" player above to enjoy this piece of KAXE history.

In 1995, in the wake of two shootings at women's health clinics in Boston, a group of leaders from opposing sides of the abortion debate agreed to hold four secret meetings to prevent further acts of violence. The meetings continued for seven years. NPR's Margot Adler visits the women at the Public Conversations Project offices, located in a small home in Watertown, Mass., to talk about the effect of their conversations. Online, hear the women's stories and read more about the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Before the guilty verdict, Fox and other conservative sites had framed the case as one between the judge and Trump. The ensuing coverage was almost entirely from his perspective on conservative media.

And: Conservation groups raise concerns about industrial farm incentives; rural health care professionals honored; Alaskan community justice worker model may help Northern Minnesotans; and a Hibbing man took the top prize in an international maple syrup competition.

Annie Knight is the conservation specialist and grants manager for Northern Waters Land Trust and has been co producing KAXE/KBXE's Conservation Conversation series. Knight joined Heidi Holtan for a conversation about her work with NWLT and what gives her passion to work in the field of conservation. To hear the full conversation, click the "Listen" player at the top of the page.

StoryCorps has a mission to collect audio conversations. Founder Dave Isay is asking younger listeners to record Thanksgiving conversations with their elders using the StoryCorps app.

The Department of Energy launches a campaign to promote energy conservation as the home-heating season approaches. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman says energy-saving steps can help consumers trim high heating costs this winter. Critics say the administration's emphasis on conservation is long overdue.

Caleb Dunlap and Sarah Plante Buhs are running for Carlton County District 1.Alex French and Dan Reed are running for District 5.Michelle Boyechko and Barbara M. Dahl are running for Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District 1.Bruce Heikes and Roger Hurd are running for SWCD 5.

Commentator David Bernstein says that as a young conservative, he doesn't see anyone in the GOP field of candidates he wants to vote for. He warns that if the republicans don't recruit a visonary leader, with some spunk, they are going to miss an opportunity to bring in a lot of young conservatives.

In Part Three of All Things Considered's oil series, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on whether conservation could be a way to lessen the U.S. reliance on Middle East oil. It's possible, but are Americans willing to do it?