Bemidji

A tuition-free scholarship opportunity is available for those wishing to study to become a community health worker as the need grows.

The position was vacated after a turbulent first quarter of 2023, that included a formal vote to remove the former city manager in April. Three candidates were identified as finalists out of a pool of 30, with the Bemidji City Council's hiring decision to possibly come next week.

There's lots of art activities to kickoff this fall. Andrew Dziengel has five picks for what to check out.

Nevaeh Kingbird, 15, was last seen on the south side of Bemidji in October 2021. Local, state and federal agencies are working together to find answers on this and other open missing Indigenous person cases.

Plus flood damage in St. Louis County, a death in the Crow Wing County Jail, area legislators seek input on proposed cannabis cultivation facility in Cohasset, and what to expect for road construction this week.

As inflation and out-of-county inmate placement costs continue to rise, Beltrami County commissioners consider options moving forward with the $60 million to $80 million, 242-bed facility.

Plus an agreement to reduce plastic pollution in the Mississippi River, new water regulations on the White Earth Reservation and more time to haul storm debris in St. Louis County.

Mayors from Minnesota to Louisiana converged in Bemidji last week for the annual meeting of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative to announce a new project aimed at preventing plastic pollution.

"Fostering Good Citizenship" will be Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023.

Painter Joyce Jackson Arndt has a retrospective exhibit at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji called 'Ninanda Minwaajim: I Seek to Tell a Good Story' until Nov. 11.