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Lorie Shaull/KAXECook and Lake counties can use funds from Minnesota's Disaster Assistance Contingency Account to cover repair costs for damaged public infrastructure. -
Contributed/Bridget Bennett / MinnPost / CatchLight Local / Report for AmericaSince 2001, the DNR has been reintroducing native freshwater mussels into this section of the Mississippi, returning every year to add more mussels and monitor the ones that are already there. -
Stella Mayerhoff/KAXE / Report for AmericaSmall businesses and nonprofits throughout north-central Minnesota are now eligible for low-interest loans up to $2 million. -
Contributed/Nicole Neri / Minnesota ReformerThe federal government has repeatedly threatened to freeze or claw back payments, but this sum is the first time the administration has permanently denied payments. -
Plus: 4 Northland teams are headed to the state volleyball tournament. -
Marine veteran Merwin Perkins, who served in the Korean War battle in the Chosin Reservoir, is among those memorialized with a mannequin and display at the Camp Ripley museum. He is also Chelsey's great-uncle.
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Contributed/Perkins familyMerwin Perkins was a Marine who served in the Korean War. This includes operating a mortar in the Chosin Reservoir during one of the most brutal, and brutally cold, battles in the history of the Marines. -
Contributed/Minnesota Department of Natural ResourcesThe Pokegama Lake access is now the Tom Neustrom Memorial Tioga Public Water Access. -
Contributed/Hape Monaheng via PexelsThe MPCA says Crosslake Construction Demolition Debris Facility, Inc. had multiple violations during facility inspections between 2020 and 2022. -
Contributed/Park Rapids Panthers Cross CountryPark Rapids senior Christian Thorson and junior Jack Mitteness also medaled from the Northland.
Larissa Donovan has been in the Bemidji area's local news scene since 2016, joining the KAXE newsroom in 2023 after several years as the News Director for the stations of Paul Bunyan Broadcasting.
Emma Krab joined KAXE in July of 2026 as a news reporter covering Grand Rapids and the Arrowhead region.
