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Barbara Baird, Shannon Benolken, Tim Carlson, Ryan Frank, Richard L. Kortekaas Sr., Andy MacDonell, Erik Odden and Kevin Ott are running for Cohasset City Council.

A longtime elected official of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe has succeeded in overturning a three-decade-old criminal conviction that upended his political career.

In the Phenology Talkbacks for the week of June 3, 2025, we hear end-of-year messages from schools and ponder unseen pollinators. Staff phenologist John Latimer responds.

Residents leading the effort say they want more time to research, but the city clerk said she intends to ask the Council to make a decision at a Monday, March 11, meeting.

Signs emerged by Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, that at least some elected Republicans and gun rights groups were uncomfortable with the official line that Pretti posed a clear and present danger.

Minnesota now has just 19 electric school buses, but more than 20 districts are waiting on deliveries, some by the 2026-2027 school year.

Election year ambitions and heightened partisan vitriol are undermining hope for the bipartisan comity needed to pass anything in the closely divided Legislature.

"Hard Headed Woman" by Margo Price is KAXE's Album of the Week for Sept. 1-7, 2025.

Northern Township has planned to construct a municipal wastewater facility for years, even acquiring federal grants. Bemidji filed a countersuit to annex Lake Bemidji this spring, prompting the administrative trial.

Wild rice plays a key spiritual and cultural role in Ojibwe, Dakota and other tribal traditions. A significant portion of the wild rice in Minnesota is located within Ojibwe reservations or treaty-ceded territory.

The sound was loud enough to rattle windows, shake houses and set car alarms off — but its source is unclear, despite a 50-mile range of reports.

Arnold Dahl-Wooley, 53, advocates for Two-Spirit visibility and acceptance in Northern Minnesota. He is a Leech Lake Band member who owns and operates a resort in Bena.

Hunger impacts 1 in 7 children in MN, and inflation and cuts to programs like SNAP could see more hungry Minnesotans needing services like those at Bemidji Community Food Shelf.

The audience at the Reif Center to listen to the Democrat speak for an hour, answering a handful of pre-submitted questions primarily about federal funding cuts.

In 2025, KAXE will have even more live, locally hosted programs including "Headwaters," our staff-hosted morning music program with great music curated by people, not algorithms.

KAXE was the first rural public community licensee in the U.S. in 1976. When Congress rescinded federal funding, supporters gave over $170,000 to keep us on the air. Times are still tough, but people-powered radio marches boldly forward.

The idea has its roots in the union expansion of the 1940s and the ‘fight for 15’ of more recent vintage.

More than 100 people crowded into the Beltrami County Board room in support of public libraries and the local museum as commissioners voted 4-1 to adopt its 2026 preliminary budget and levy.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said the defendants targeted vulnerable people, many of whom were being released from drug or alcohol rehab facilities.

The KAXE Music Team highlights new releases from Sotomayor, Big Richard, Boy Golden, Jesca Hoop, Baby Rose and Leon Thomas, Anna Calvi and Iggy Pop, and Cat Clyde.