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White Earth Chairwoman Erma Vizenor is fighting to keep her job amid allegations she violated the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (MCT) constitution. The allegations include Vizenor’s continued work on implementing White Earth’s new, independent constitution (voted in two years ago, but not yet put into effect), despite the tribal council’s resolution on April 20 that stated...

BRAINERD -- Authorities seized 37 pounds of marijuana, more than $25,000 in cash, 12 guns and a Lexus vehicle in connection with north Brainerd and Baxter drug busts on Wednesday. The Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office identified the three people arrested in bust that began in north Brainerd and led to a residence in Baxter Wednesday afternoon. Currently housed in the Crow Wing...

The Monday after the long Thanksgiving weekend brought the season’s first snowfall to the Twin Cities that truly mattered, a predawn reminder to motorists and homebodies alike of just why we supposedly “like it here.” The poorly timed wintry wallop nudged vehicles by the dozens into ditches and guardrails. A pileup involving two semitrailer trucks just after 6 a.m. had...

The cafeteria at Noble Academy charter school in Brooklyn Park is adorned with Laotian-style ornamentation, a nod to its mostly Hmong student body. Employees at St. Paul’s Higher Ground Academy can converse in the first languages of its predominantly East African population. Nearly all the students at Friendship Academy of the Arts in Minneapolis are black. To compete for...

A man’s body was found Sunday by volunteers searching in the Monticello area for a missing 24-year-old man from St. Cloud, authorities said. The Wright County Sheriff’s Office said the body was discovered about 2:30 p.m. in a marsh south of Interstate 94 near Dalton Avenue. The discovery came a week after the missing man, Tyler Berg, was last seen leaving his residence in...

Revised forecasts are predicting nearly 10 inches of snow in the Twin Cities, with the season’s first wintry wallop expected to start Monday and last into Tuesday. The first hints of snow in the metro area should show up in the southern suburbs just as the morning commute is wrapping up Monday, according to the National Weather Service. The rest of the metro area as well as...

As the deadline for switching Medicare health plans approaches, time is running out for seniors to avoid higher drug costs by shopping for different coverage. Premiums are up next year in Minnesota for many with Medicare drug coverage. Beneficiaries also are facing higher deductibles at the pharmacy with some plans, plus higher costs if they don’t use designated drugstores....

NEW YORK – The United States is set to become the first nation to decide whether it’s safe to operate nuclear power plants for 80 years, twice as long as initially allowed. The majority of the nation’s 99 reactors have already received 20-year extensions to their original 40-year operating licenses. Now, operators led by Dominion Resources want to expand the time frame...

The American Red Cross and the state Department of Corrections have a fundamental disagreement over the ­definition of “disaster.” And it all comes down to one person: Shelley Koski. Koski is one of the few certified American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health volunteers in the country. She’s also a clinical therapist with the Corrections Department at Moose Lake....

Among Native American tribes, there’s a sharing, communal spirit, and the saying “It takes a village to raise a child” rings true. “Other people raise other people’s children all the time,” Zachery Desjarlais said. “It doesn’t have to be a nefarious reason, either.” Adoption, too, taps into that cooperative heritage getting passed down from generation to...

MACEY, Neb. —About an hour and half north of the metro, the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska sits on 300 square miles of reservation land stretching into Iowa's Monona County. "We need jobs," Daniel Webster said, who lives on the reservation. http://www.ketv.com/news/omaha-tribe-interested-in-pursuing-growing-selling-of-marijuana-to-boost-economy/36696418...