A northern Minnesota food shelf opens a second location, lawmakers vote to memorialize a southern Minnesota first responder, and a fallen World War Two soldier returns to a hero’s welcome.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image: Captain Willibald Bianchi. His body was returned to Minnesota Sunday, 80 years after his death. [credit: Brown County Historical Society]
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Entra en vigor una nueva ley que protege a las familias afroamericanas, y le contamos cómo disfrutar de las atracciones naturales del estado a medida que suben las temperaturas.

A new law protecting African American families goes into effect, and we tell you how to enjoy the state’s natural attractions as temperatures rise.
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Productor/Producer: Victor Palomino
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Pie de foto: Paisaje colorido en el Parque Estatal Gooseberry Falls, en la cascada inferior. Two Harbors, Minnesota.
Crédito fotográfico: ADOBE Stock, por Tammi Mild

Image caption: Colorful scenery at Gooseberry Falls State Park, at the lower waterfall. Two Harbors, Minnesota.
Image photo credit: ADOBE Stock, By Tammi Mild

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Rochester honors the life and legacy of a longtime leader of the black community, Last minute attempts to change Minnesota’s voting laws, and a Minnesota lawmaker says sorry after betting on his own race.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image: DFL Senator Matt Klein apologizes for betting $50 on his primary race. [credit: Minnesota Senate Media Services]
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The “Grandparent Happy Hour” becomes law, cars in the Arrowhead hit sinkholes, and Minnesota State Parks are free this Saturday.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image: Please do not shoot a moose, or you will lose your hunting license. [credit: MN DNR]
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As the legislative session nears its end, we look at how this historic session is unfolding. And, Black women make up about seven percent of Minnesota's population, but account for forty percent of domestic violence victims.

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Executive Producer: Victor Palomino

Producers: Ngoc Bui and Katharine DeCelle

Anchor: Gracie J.

Reader scripting: Victor Palomino, Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston

Fact checking: Joel Glaser

Editorial support: Joel Glaser

Production Assistant: Britt Aamodt

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: The Minnesota Legislature is facing a historic tie in the House. [credit: AMPERS photo library]

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Dairy farmers get support from a divided legislature, Duluth’s Zeitgeist Film Festival shows “Why We Dance,” and today is Earth Day — Albert Lea is taking care of its ash trees.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image: The bark of an ash tree [credit: City of Albert Lea]
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Calls and texts from the sheriff are probably from scammers, a few more laws head to the House floor, and the fight for the Boundary Waters comes back from D.C.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image: Proposed mining zones in the BWCA [credit: Courtesy of Save the Boundary Waters]

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Efforts to preserve the African American families, more manufacturing layoffs in the Iron Range, and tornadoes touchdown around Rochester.

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Producer: Xan Holston
Reporter: Chelsea Perkins, KAXE

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  A tornado to the NE of the Rochester Airport. [credit: Rob Lichner via the National Weather Service]

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Un día en el Capitolio por las mujeres y niñas negras desaparecidas y asesinadas; un bar de Saint Paul recibe un premio de la paz de un club de fútbol europeo; y legisladores estatales buscan mantener las armas de fuego y los cuchillos fuera de las escuelas.

A Day at the Capitol for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls; a Saint Paul Bar Receives a Peace Prize from a European Soccer Club; and State Legislators Seek to Keep Firearms and Knives Out of Schools.
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Productor/Producer: Victor Palomino
Additional voice work: Marisa Rueda

Pie de foto: Vista exterior de la histórica Hibbing High School, situada en la región minera de hierro del norte de Minnesota, el 21 de mayo de 2025 en Hibbing, Minnesota. Bob Dylan se graduó de esta escuela en 1959. [credit: ADOBE Stock By Cynthia]

Image caption: Exterior view of historic Hibbing High School on the northern Minnesota Iron Range, on May 21, 2025 in Hibbing, Minnesota. Bob Dylan graduated from this school in 1959.  [credit: ADOBE Stock By Cynthia] 

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A new documentary on the Jacob Wetterling kidnapping, St Louis County gets creative to secure construction cash, and the U.S. Senate overturns a 20-year mining ban near the BWCA.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image: Minnesota U.S. Senator Tina Smith spoke for hours Wednesday night in an attempt to stop the vote to repeal a mining ban near the BWCA. [credit: U.S. Senate]

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