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Doug Kern is the chairman of the Crow Wing Township Board and has run three small businesses. He lost in the Republican primary in 2022 in House District 6B.

The Minnesota DNR accepted the parcel from the Trust for Public Land, which used state grants to buy the land from adjacent private property owners.

Bemidji, Grand Rapids, Staples-Motley and United North Central qualified for the team tournament, as well as individual wrestlers from 24 Northern Minnesota schools.

The soft launch of the Minwaadizi Project's new space, which aims to be an "un-boarding school" community center, included a round dance and potluck.

Daniel Jourdain and Jorge Prince are running for Bemidji mayor. Gwenia Fiskevold Gould and Ron Johnson and running for Bemidji City Council Ward 1.Katie Carter and Mark Dickinson are running for Council Ward 3. Bill Batchelder and Lynn Eaton are running for Council Ward 5.

The May edition of the Season Watch Podcast is here! Much like the Season Watch Newsletter, it features plants, animals, and phenomena to look for in six categories: while commuting, while walking, in watery habitats, in open areas, in the forest, and in town. New this month is a listener Q&A section!

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.

Also set to perform at the Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, festival in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, are Amanda Shires, Shemekia Copeland and Dessa.

KAXE's weekly list of concerts near you features Them Coulee Boys, Jeremy Jewell, Mae Simpson Band, BlackFishBleu and A.T.O.W.

For rural hospitals already operating on tiny margins, looming Medicaid cuts will dial up the financial pressures, said Jean MacDonell, president and CEO of Fairview Range hospital in Hibbing.

Almost 20 years after the project began, Mesabi Metallics says production could start next year for the first new mine on the Iron Range in decades.

Steve Hudson Cotariu, Michael Domin, Casey Kannel, Laura Lee, Mark Taylor and Hannah Wesner are running for I.S.D. 182, Crosby-Ironton School Board.

Republicans and DFLers were quick to blame the other party for not-so-good news, but it didn’t change the fact that they’ll have to settle on a budget plan before July.

"Foxes in the Snow" by Jason Isbell is KAXE's Album of the Week for March 10-16, 2025.

During the week of June 17, 2025, we examine dragonflies, strawberries, and the Pennington Bog. Staff phenologist John Latimer responds.

Minnesota was the first state to spend money on a media campaign to discourage smoking. And in the 1990s, it was early to sue tobacco companies and conduct sting operations against retailers.

The service will add more than 60 stops in Cohasset, Deer River and Ball Club on Sept. 2, 2025, bringing the total to more than 150 stops in Itasca County.

The ranks of the hungry are expected to grow as grocery prices remain high and the federal government has cut food stamps and other nutrition programs.

The nature program is among a plethora of June activities available for visitors to the state park featuring the headwaters of the Mississippi River.

The DNR adopted new rules in January 2026, changing the previously closed portion of the bass fishing season to catch-and-release, meaning fishing for the species is open year-round.