Red Lake Nation News - Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

BEMIDJI – More than 250 sites across state, including several in northern Minnesota, are offering taxpayers free assistance with filing income tax and property tax refund returns....

ST. PAUL - U.S. Rep. John Kline predicts there will be no last-minute agreement to fix massive federal budget cuts, an inaction that would cost many American jobs....

AY CREEK, Minn. – Before a big energy corporation threatened to turn the bluff behind her house into a sand mine in early 2011, Amy Nelson’s idea of civic activism was to volunteer at the United Way....

Three people were killed on Minnesota highways Monday and the state Transportation Department pulled some plows off the road as a blizzard roared across western Minnesota, blinding drivers and coating pavement with snow and ice....

Gov. Mark Dayton has spent two years painstakingly working to build an unlikely alliance between his union-backed DFL administration and the state’s powerful business community....

Fresh from college and a suburban upbringing, Ann Mack was ready to quit by spring break of her first year teaching at Maria Sanford Middle School in Minneapolis....

Minnesota’s electric power plants have cut their mercury pollution in half since the mid-1990s, putting them three years ahead of the schedule established by the state Legislature and well on their way to meeting new standards set in December by the federal government....

HELENA – Members of the growing Idle No More movement made a second appearance at the state Legislature on Monday with a rally and round dance on the north steps of the Capitol....

ODANAH, Wis. (AP) - For generations the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has quietly carved out a hardscrabble existence in the evergreen forests and sloughs along what people here call the Big Water, living off wild rice, fish and game....

There was no opposition, and the House Revenue & Taxation Committee was unanimous this morning in backing HB 140, the bill to clarify that tribe-owned land within Idaho Indian reservations is not subject to local county property taxation. Such lands hadn’t been taxed in Idaho for a century due to the state Constitution’s provision declaring that the state “forever...

One of the more discouraging disappointments of the 112th Congress was its failure to renew the Violence Against Women Act. Lawmakers must move quickly to redress this misstep and ensure that all victims of domestic violence have access to the services and protections they deserve....

A bill to allow Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) police to ticket non-Native American speeders and drunk drivers on the Wind River Indian Reservation died in the House Judiciary Committee this year, even after months of painstaking work by the interim committee that wrote it....

Residents on the Wind River Indian Reservation know they have some big crime problems, but they don’t always like outsiders to write about them, especially when they seem to get everything else about the reservation wrong....

In a dress adorned with 365 jingle bells, Annmarie Spice twirled to the beat of drums....

TUBA CITY – An awkward start for the new law enforcement facility in the Western Agency of the Navajo reservation....