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Plus: Aitkin schools lock down amid hoax shooting call; Gov. Walz releases budget priorities for upcoming session; and a Beltrami County township seeks support to build its own wastewater treatment plant.

And: more than 200,000 Minnesotans may lose benefits under the Affordable Connectivity Program when its current funding ends in April; Minnesota associate Supreme Court justice Margaret Chutich becomes the second justice to announce an upcoming retirement; and the City of Grand Rapids is offering a government academy to residents.

Plus: grocery store union rejects contract offer; homelessness count set for Wednesday; and the emerald ash borer quarantine area expands in Cass County.

And: an update on a Crow Wing County child torture case; new program on the way for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe; and racial gaps in college degree attainment persist.

And: funding shortages lead to price increases for after-school care; public hearing set for Essentia Health's decision to pull OB care in Fosston; and voting opens for the snowplow naming contest.

Plus: a popular Brainerd area ice fishing event has yet to receive permit; the state begins a new program to connect people of color with clean energy construction-related jobs; and a historic caboose makes a journey to its new resting place.

And: Polk County warns of email scam; early voting begins in presidential primary; Beltrami County seeks proposals for uses of opioid settlement funds; and Itasca County families in need will benefit from Home for Good kits.

Plus: Another emerald ash borer confirmation; tax filing season begins; end-of-life bill has legislative hearing; and a proposal would limit logging in old-growth forests.

Plus: teachers across the region continue to work without contracts, and Mt. Itasca seeks to shore up finances as the warm winter takes its toll.

Plus: Updates to burning restrictions in Minnesota; a state investigation is launched into the DNR's handling of timber in wildlife management areas; and Hibbing schools will see grade-level changes next year.

Dan Stark is a large carnivore specialist and the wolf plan project manager for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Plus: unemployment benefits for striking workers considered; meeting planned on Aitkin County Hwy 169 project; and rain-collecting volunteers are needed.

Plus: Pequot's bobber tower in need of repairs, a Minnesota farmer focuses on regenerative practices with poultry, and a new dental hub comes to the region.

Plus: A bill would transfer ownership if the White Earth State Forest to the White Earth Nation, and a mistake led to the wrong siren sounding in St. Louis County.

And: Minnesota's representation in the U.S. Senate announced federal funding for Bemidji area projects, Tuesday is Township Day, and a group is seeking to end unfair labor practices like wage theft.

Plus: A missing Bigfork teenager is found safe; the Grand Rapids School Board agrees to $1.6M in budget cuts; and Rock Ridge School District cancels classes for all students in response to state tournament appearances.

Plus a bill would return the rest of Upper Red Lake to Red Lake Nation; emergency funds available for businesses impacted by warm winter; and funding supports the rural electric grid.

Plus: Drought conditions deepen in Minnesota; a planned Coleraine child care facility receives Itasca County support to expand availability; and the DNR releases fishing regulations on Upper Red, Mille Lacs lakes.

Plus, the DNR decides to stop stocking trout in three Northern Minnesota lakes because of growing northern pike populations.

And: Hubbard County residents seek abatements after property valuation program overvalues properties; a Bemidji City Council meeting was cut short after unknown online attendants began shouting profanity and slurs; the University of Minnesota will hold a listening session about the future of the Cloquet Forestry Center next week; and recent research into chronic wasting disease shows the barrier for spillover into the human population is less solid than once thought.