The Minneapolis Fire Department is making history with the first all-Indigenous fire crew. For the past six months, a crew of four has manned engine 10 in fire house number six in Minneapolis.

M’s potential legal exposure related to PFAS continues to grow after the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe filed a federal lawsuit ...

Guadalupe Lopez now leads the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office (MMIR) and plans to meet with every impacted ...

For Indigenous Peoples' Day, the Up First newsletter is recognizing the work NPR's member stations do to uplift Indigenous ...

A cat that accidentally traveled from China to Minnesota inside a shipping container is now adjusting to life in the United ...

A court ruling has vacated a 1992 guilty plea for felony third-degree assault entered by longtime former Leech Lake Tribal Council member Arthur “Archie” LaRose. The ruling gives LaRose new hope for ...

'Using local invasive species helps buffer us and gives animals more variety,' the Minnesota Zoo said of the choice Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

A new chapter in musky conservation is unfolding on Leech Lake, driven by a landmark study and a powerful coalition of partners: the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MNDNR), MN-FISH, the ...

The ‘meteoric’ growth of the lake sturgeon, which disappeared from the western Minnesota lake after World War II, has South Dakota, Minnesota researchers intrigued. Lake sturgeon sightings on Big ...

The Leech Lake Housing Authority building was destroyed by fire overnight on Labor Day, Monday, September 1, 2025, on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Cass Lake, Minn. Tribal officials confirmed ...

CASS LAKE, Minn. (Valley News Live) - The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Housing Authority burned down Monday morning. The fire happened overnight at 611 Elm Ave NW. The cause of the fire remains under ...

It would be a simple building surrounded by pines, maybe 400 square feet, with bookshelves, a woodstove and a sleeping loft. A trail would lead to the lake and you’d pad along it barefoot, inhaling ...