This article was originally published by Stateline. Nada Hassanein Stateline Only a dozen states have laws establishing suicide prevention offices or coordinators, and just 11 have task forces or ...

EMMET COUNTY, Michigan — In December 2022, Enbridge, the Canadian fossil fuel giant behind the controversial Line 5 pipeline, signed a real estate agreement transferring two parcels of land near the ...

Native-themed names and mascots are rooted in racism, cultural appropriation, and intentional ignorance, the National Congress of American Indians said in a statement released earlier this year.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration and its allies have pushed aggressively for drilling, mining and logging in Alaska. This has intensified long-standing debate over ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Thursday that it will revoke three documents intended to form the basis for limits on oil drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Those ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — The governor of New Mexico declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to violent crime and drug trafficking across a swath of northern New Mexico, including two Native ...

New Hampshire has become the first state to require doctors and medical staff to sterilize patients who request it. The measure focuses on adults who have medical conditions for which sterilization ...

President Daniel Noboa has eliminated the Environment Ministry as an independent institution, folding it into the Energy and Mines Ministry. Activists and Indigenous leaders say the move weakens ...

The week’s edition of the ICT Newscast covers the news for the week ending August 15, 2025.

Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Ojibwe tribe, is a national correspondent for ICT.

Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans’ disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law ...

Indigenous leaders will play a key role in deciding which rare earth mining projects move forward because so many of the key minerals are on or adjacent to tribal lands. Critical minerals – including ...