Today on Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo we learn to say Happy New Year in Ojibwe: Mino Oshki Biboon! Nana Boozhoo and Natasha talk about New Year's resolutions and they sing Auld Lang Syne for us. More Happy New Year in Ojibwe here .

Scott Hall, Kyle Erickson and Fred Freidman struggle to join Heidi and John via Zoom for a special Christmas Eve edition of the Morning Show. They talk about the Timberwolves win, NBA player James Harden violating the league's COVID-19 protocols, Minnesota High School sports and Covid-19 and they discuss breakdancing becoming an Olympic sport. Scott Hall shares some Christmas sports trivia and they end by naming their favorite NFL football coaches.

Early Bird Fishing Guide Jeff Sundin joins Heidi Holtan and John Bauer for the Christmas Eve Thursday Morning Show. They talk about safety concerns when ice fishing. Jeff tells us how he had to change his fishing plans for the week because of the weather. He reminds us that the strong winds during a snowstorm can move the ice and snow changing the route you took to get on the lake and possibly causing you to be stranded from shore. Jeff reports moderately good fishing on area lakes near Bemidji

Northern Waters Land Trust is a non-profit conservation organization working to protect water quality and preserve environmentally sensitive lands and water resources. Formerly the Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation, they serve the watersheds in Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard and Aitkin Counties of Minnesota, and represents 2,235 lakes, 3,400 miles of rivers and streams, and nearly 4.2 million acres. John Sumption and Annie Johnson from the NWLT join Heidi Holtan and John Latimer for the first

This week for our Strong Women series we had the chance to talk with 2 women from Bemidji. Dawn Goodwin is cofounder of RISE coalition ; she is a Representative of the Indigenous Environmental Network and Simone Senogles is the Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator for the Indigenous Environmental Network. They tell us why they continue to work to stop the construction of pipelines (specifically Enbridge Line 3) through 1855 treaty lands and wetlands. Simone also tells us what it was like to be

Today on Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo we learn to say Merry Christmas in Ojibwe. Minobii Niibaa Anama’e Giizhiigad! (Merry Nighttime Prayer Day). Nana Boozhoo tells us the Christmas story from the movie A Charlie Brown Christmas. More on Christmas in Ojibwe language here.

KAXE/KBXE's Heidi Holtan hosts a weekly statewide conversation with Minnesota State Officials. It's your opportunity to ask questions about Minnesota’s response and plans concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, the Minnesota Department of Health Director of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division, Kris Ehresmann answered questions regarding disinformation, current state guidelines, vaccine distribution and more. For more information on the states response to COVID

Physician and author Dr. Michael Stein joins Heidi and John on the Friday Moring Show to talk about his new book Broke: Patients Talk about Money with Their Doctor. This is a book of stories from Dr. Stein’s patients as they talk about economics. Dr. Stein tells us that health and wealth track very closely. The expected life expectancy in the poorest county in the US is 67 years old with the richest county at 84. He shares his thoughts on reducing poverty by half in ten years by giving children

Each Friday morning we hear news from northeastern Minnesota when Marshall Helmberger joins Heidi Holtan for Border News Roundup. This week Marshall gives a regional update on the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Cook area as the hotspot, with a 100% surge in cases in the last three weeks. Heidi and Marshall discuss the employee embezzlement of $315,000 at the Fortune Bay Resort and Casino and the U.S. patent awarded to Lamppa Manufacturing in Tower for their wood furnace. Marshall ends with a story

Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. Sisters Amanda and Mae clash when a reality TV show visits their small Kansas town to film a competition between the family's two fried chicken restaurants. This is writer KJ Dell'Antonia’s debut novel. It’s called The Chicken Sisters . KJ is the former editor of MotherLode and current contributor to The New York Times , as well as the author of How to Be a Happier Parent.