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WASHINGTON – Buried deep in the federal government’s voluminous new tobacco regulations is a little-known economic analysis with a potentially poisonous outcome for public policy. It assumes that the benefits from reducing smoking have to be weighed against the loss in pleasure that smokers suffer when they give up their habit....
Gov. Mark Dayton has directed state agencies to hire more employees with disabilities, seeking to reverse an alarming decline in the state’s hiring of disabled people....
DENVER — Long wait times for veterans to get health care can be cleared up in two years, along with investigations of employees accused of falsifying data to hide the problem, Deputy Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson said Wednesday....
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that public employees can challenge a bad performance review under the state’s government records law, in a decision that could affect a 350,000-member workforce that ranges from teachers and clerks to police officers and state-employed scientists....
MARYSVILLE, Ohio — Officials say about 1,000 inmates at a central Ohio women's prison dumped their lunches in the trash after another discovery of maggots in the serving area....
On Friday, July 25, 2014, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians and Oshkiimaajitahdah announced their intention to operate a Tribal TANF Program. One of the requirements was to have a 45-day viewing and comment period for the proposed TANF Plan. The mission statement of the program developed by the staff at Oshkiimaajitahdah is: "Oshkiimaajitahdah is committed to educating families to discover their strengths as individuals." In doing so will strengthen the family and reduce the risk factors...
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians Inaugural Ceremony - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 9 AM Tribal Secretary-Elect Don R. Cook, Sr. Tribal Treasurer-Elect Annette Johnson Redby Representative, Julius Thunder Red Lake Representative Roman Stately, Jr. Little Rock Representative Robert Reynolds A public swearing-in ceremony will be held at the Tribal Council Meeting on Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at the Red Lake Humanities Center. The Council meeting will begin at 9 AM with the swearing-in ceremony to...
One week after a new legal deadline, nearly two-thirds of Canada’s First Nations have not yet provided Ottawa detailed financial information – including how much chiefs and councillors are paid....
On Friday, August 1, 27 members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Police received the power to arrest non-Natives on tribal land. “Up until now they could only hold and detain non-tribal members until the state police could come and make the arrest,” William Satti, director of public affairs for the Mashantucket Pequot Nation, said at a swearing-in ceremony heralding the event. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/08/05/police-protection-ct-increases-tribes-can-now-arrest-non-natives-156213...
Protesters set up a blockade at an Enbridge pipeline site in southwestern Ontario on Tuesday, disrupting work on what is called Line 9....
FARMINGTON — The U.S. District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday that a 33-year-old Shiprock woman accused of helping her brother burn a house down has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison....
Members of the Santee Sioux Tribe re-elected Anthony Reider to the chairman’s seat after Saturday’s general election held at Eastman Hall....
After building a thriving society over centuries, one Native American society in the 12th century underwent a violent collapse that left the southwestern region of what is now the U.S. virtually depopulated....
OKMULGEE, Okla. - Charges have been filed against a high-ranking official of the Muskogee (Creek) Nation....
TULSA, Okla. – A high-ranking figure in a local Native American tribe has been arrested by the FBI....
The WNBA's Seattle Storm are traveling on a rocky path these days, having lost seven of their past eight games. Yet Thursday night's game against the Atlanta Dream is a near sellout of KeyArena's 9,686 seats....
Shoni Schimmel's distinctive style of play first took shape on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeast Oregon....
KINGMAN — Juveniles arrested by the Fort Mojave tribal police will be held at the juvenile detention center in Kingman....
Shortly after, officials from the Navajo Nation met with city officials. Read more: http://www.koat.com/news/city-has-cut-funding-to-center-that-helps-homeless-native-americans/27322388#ixzz39i2gC3nG...
WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — Federal authorities are giving a northeast Nebraska hospital less than three months to make corrections before they pull Medicare funding....
A Thunder Bay man says he had to "do something" after hearing first-hand about living conditions in northern First Nations communities....
Be it a tweet, a chirp or a whistle, the birdsong has long been an instrumental piece in nature and part of Minnesota history....
If you saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend — and from the looks of it, that appears to be most of you — you likely found yourself grooving along with Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill to the song he plays during one of the film's opening scenes while simultaneously wondering, Who sings this again? Thanks to Star-Lord and his Awesome Mixtape No. 1, we now know more than we ever could have imagined about the track “Come and Get Your Love” and the band that brought it into the world....
LEAVENWORTH — Officials fighting a new wildfire complex on a Colville Indian Reservation have issued an urgent evacuation notice for about 20 homes....
A lack of funding could mean the end of a fire department on a reserve in Nova Scotia....
