Snuggled in the Kenwood neighborhood near Lake of the Isles, Birchbark Books and Native Arts serves as a vital hub for Native literature and art. Owner and renowned author Louise Erdrich opened the ...

As I sit here at my desk in Lino Lakes Correctional Facility, I watch the mid-afternoon traffic of Highway 35 pass my window. I’m subdued by the sound of early October rain as it hits my window sill.

“It’s just a very long distance from not having anything, to get to this point,” says Ne Dao, co-owner of Ha Tien Grocery Store (353 University Avenue West, St. Paul). While Dao means as business ...

Daniel Yang is part of a new cohort of young leaders in the Native American community in South Minneapolis, a half-Native, half-Asian grassroots activist with a passion for public service and a ...

A well-known Hmong community leader and among the first Hmong Americans to earn a doctoral degree has died. Dr. Cherzong V. Vang (Thajkhu Vaj Txiab) was a father figure both in Laos and here in ...

A month before Halloween, ghosts are in court. A lawsuit by janitors for Diversified Maintenance Systems (DMS) charges that they were forced to use “ghost time cards,” so the company could avoid ...

Public Record Media (PRM) produces independent-minded, non-partisan public affairs writing and programming. PRM also vigorously pursues government data through open records requests. Information is ...

UCare’s March 16 announcement that it will give back $30 million to the State of Minnesota came amid mounting criticsm of state payments to HMOs. Why the payback? It’s “the right thing to do,” said ...

Award winning photographer Wing Young Huie has been revealing untold stories lingering in plain sight for nearly two decades. He creates intimate portraits of individuals from diverse backgrounds, ...

“It’s like a roach motel,” says Phil Duran, an attorney with OutFront Minnesota, who has been an advocate for individuals committed to the program. “People check in, but they never check out.” Gov.

“I don’t have anything against partying, but if you can’t party and work in the same day, then maybe you should give up one of them,” said the Glenn Brooks of Bill Stanton’s memory. Ryeon Corsi is a ...

Richard Hagen remembers playing around the neglected Stevens House as a child. “The house sat by the bridge, it was boarded up. When I was a kid, we would play at Minnehaha Park. We would peek in the ...