The suit, filed by the state, challenges a legal interpretation that allows tribes to exert authority over as much as 2.7 ...

Opposition mounts to Trump administration's layoffs of thousands of workers in health, education and other key tribal ...

Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development is working with tribes to kick start a compacting program and give ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski , chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, addressed the U.S. Senate floor regarding a letter she ...

The U.S. Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on ...

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The State of Alaska (the State) has embarked on a significant legal journey, filing a lawsuit against the United States Department of the ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski has yet to weigh in. She asked Kennedy one question in his broadcasted hearing with the US Senate HELP ...

Nearly 100 other elementary-age athletes participated in that competition that featured six distinct events including the ...

U.S. Senator Merkley and Congresswoman Pingree have called for immediate intervention from the HHS to halt reductions to the ...

Right now it's too early to tell how federal layoffs will impact tribes in South Dakota and local Indian Health Service ...

Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash off western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators ...