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Going by the street name “Church,” the heroin dealer met his customer at a corner convenience store in north Minneapolis, the Penn-Wood Market, and made a sale. Hours later, the customer lay dying in Hopkins, another victim of a lethal heroin epidemic sweeping across the Twin Cities....
The Minnesota Department of Transportation first introduced the “zipper merge” in the early 2000s. Yet a decade later, it’s still trying to educate motorists on the proper and polite way to merge in construction zones....
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota is moving towards its first minimum wage hike since 2005....
WASHINGTON – As chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, Republican U.S. Rep. John Kline oversees an annual budget of more than $6 million and an influential panel that’s supposed to hold sway over legislation that touches the lives of almost every American....
Minnesota’s education community has never been more focused on closing our achievement gap, one of the highest in the nation. However, our efforts are hampered when the basic needs of our students are unmet, needs as basic as safe and stable housing. How can we close the achievement gap when thousands of students don’t know where they’re going to sleep at night?...
Rona Nesser is a trailblazer for Minnesota’s newest attempt to fund the Vikings stadium — electronic linked bingo....
Nobody is welcoming this weekend’s warm-up more than Minnesota’s farmers....
PITTSBURGH - The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change?...
Justice Murray Sinclair has travelled across Canada collecting nightmares for almost four years now. Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Abused+aboriginal+children+archive+pain+grows/8308295/story.html#ixzz2RrFcsTGe...
Some members of state-recognized Indian tribes say they will push for the freedom to use eagle feathers during Native American rituals in hopes of altering a federal decision allowing only federally-recognized tribes access to the feathers and animal parts sacred to the culture. Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2013/04/28/2747283/some-sc-tribal-members-fighting.html#storylink=cpy...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Native American activists say they will protest if someone buys and tries to develop a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark that sits next to where about 150 of the 300 Lakota men, women and children killed by the 7th Cavalry in 1890 are buried....
NESPELEM — For tribal elders Elaine Timentwa Emerson and Barbara Aripa, the termination era was a dark time on the Colville Indian Reservation. As federal government worked with their tribal council on a plan to disband the Colville Tribe, they joined the fight to keep their identity and culture as a confederated tribe....
The 30th Annual Gathering of Nations closed last night, April 27, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after another hugely successful run. It may have been what opened the gathering that generated the most excitement, though. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/28/video-johnny-depp-speaks-gathering-nations-149072...
SHIPROCK — The Shiprock Marathon is going to have a "big" guest this year....
Private companies that do business on reservations with tribes and their corporations cannot automatically ask federal courts to intercede when legal disputes erupt, a federal appeals court ruled Friday....
The city of Duluth and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa continue to spar over the fate of the Carter Hotel....
High interest payday loans are seen by critics as a fast track to endless cycles of debt for borrowers. Are they a scam? Some would say yes, although they're legal. Certainly no one would dispute that they're dangerous. That's why many states have adopted regulations intended to limit the damage payday loans can inflict on people's personal finances....
Residential schools engaged in "cultural genocide," former prime minister Paul Martin said Friday at the hearings of the federal Truth And Reconciliation Commission, adding that aboriginal Canadians must now be offered the best educational system....
For the second year in a row, Chamberlain High School Students are asking the school board to incorporate a Native American honor song into this year's graduation ceremony....
Canadian, Inuit and international trade leaders alike are lashing out at a European Union court decision to uphold a ban, first enacted three years ago, on seal products. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/27/inuit-and-canadian-officials-lash-out-european-unions-seal-products-ban-149058...
SIOUX FALLS, SD - On April 26, 1974 several American Indian Movement members refused to stand up in a courtroom for a Minnehaha County Judge. Four days later at a separate hearing they refused to stand again and a riot broke out at the Minnehaha County Courthouse....
The New Orleans Jazz Fest will include graffiti-style murals by Arizona artists Douglas Miles and Thomas "Breeze" Marcus. The 2013 fest places an emphasis on the arts, culture and cuisine of Native Americans. Miles is part of the San Carlos Apache Nation, Marcus descends from the Tohono O'odham Nation....
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A 41-year-old St. Michael man has pleaded guilty to breaking into a post office on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation and stealing a U.S. Treasury check made out to another person....
LANSING, Mich. – Michigan's Upper Peninsula has a storied history of mining....
GRAND FORKS — Spirit Lake Nation members seeking to replace Tribal Chairman Roger Yankton Sr. said Friday they are nearing their goal of 600 signatures on a recall petition....
