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As St. Paul parents weigh where to send children in a shifting landscape of school choices, the district is sweetening the allure of learning closer to home by making bus service available to students a half-mile from all of its elementary schools....
At least 300 people were arrested in Minnesota for drunken driving on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day....
WASHINGTON - Minnesota's members of Congress who were elected in November are being sworn in at the U.S. Capitol....
DULUTH - A judge has ruled that a downtown head shop is creating a public nuisance....
Minnesota's inaugural wolf hunting and trapping season will end Thursday because the 400-wolf target quota has nearly been met, the Department of Natural Resources announced Wednesday....
It's a common medical refrain: Carrying extra pounds raises the risk of ills such as heart disease and diabetes and therefore the risk of a premature death....
One in six U.S. adults binge-drinks four times a month, consuming an average of eight drinks per session, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- and binge drinking is practically a rite of passage on college campuses nationwide. But why do some people feel so compelled to throw back a few drinks while others have no interest at all?...
Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation has been fasting in a bid to secure a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper....
Last month a protest movement exploded across Canada, but little has been made of it by the media below the border. The reason for this, perhaps, is that the issues underpinning the movement are — quite literally — indigenous to Canada....
The threat of suicide is always ill advised or rooted in selfishness. In the regrettable case of Theresa Spence, it appears to be a case of both. Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Editorial+Attawapiskat+chief+wrong+blackmail+Prime+Minister+Stephen+Harper/7767783/story.html#ixzz2Gv4tr1HI...
Dozens of Idle No More protesters blocked traffic on Portage Avenue near Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway for several hours Wednesday afternoon....
I made the observation on Twitter the other day that certain native leaders seem intent on conflict, and that they want the “hapless” Theresa Spence, the hunger-striking Attawapiskat First Nation chief, to become a martyr....
Organizers from Idle No More held a flash mob round dance early Saturday evening at the Mall of America to raise awareness of their movement that calls on all people “to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water....
WASHINGTON -- Despite a late-stage intervention by Vice President Joe Biden, House Republican leaders failed to advance the Senate's 2012 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, an embattled bill that would have extended domestic violence protections to 30 million LGBT individuals, undocumented immigrants and Native American women....
Najaway, a Navajo woman, survived 20 years of domestic violence at the hands of two husbands—one Native, one non-Native. Now in her early 50s, she still can’t get the nightmare out of her head....
A First Nations woman who reported to police that she was sexually assaulted in Thunder Bay remains fearful, according to a family friend....
The sentencing of a former teacher convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter's friend was delayed Wednesday when the defence lawyer noted that his client's aboriginal roots had not been fully explored in a presentence report....
Manitoba RCMP have charged two men in the death of a 25-year-old man on the Black River First Nation northeast of Winnipeg on New Year's Day....
Three people have been charged in the death of a 20-year-old man on Red Earth First Nation, Sask., on Jan. 1....
(CNN) - The maker of a Google app thinks it's fun to make yourself "look Asian" by changing the shape of your eyes and wearing a Fu Manchu mustache and rice paddy hat....