It’s estimated that around 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that’s expected to double by 2060. But researchers have found that some of the highest rates of cognitive impairment ...
Editor's note: This is the second of a series of four columns from regular contributor Jordan McClements. You want a statistic, America? You can wait, for my mother’s/uncle’s side. You know who you ...
The worst part about Jeri Robertson’s job is turning people away.  In her five years as the housing manager for the Tolowa ...
MINNEAPOLIS — There were overdoses nearly every day in the grim homeless encampment near downtown. J John Eligon Follow At least four people had died within two months. Diseases spread, with upward of ...
Above: The bar graph depicts a leveling of rates in 2023 after a steep rise in earlier years, age-adjusted fatal overdoses per 100,000 population, 2010-2023. August 26, 2025 New data from 35 large ...
The states affected are Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon, which contain just over a quarter of Native Americans.
This summer, Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center opened a 24-unit Permanent Supportive Housing community on their property in the East Phillips and Ventura Village neighborhood of Minneapolis.
My uncle Ricky is Native. I am Native, full stop. I’m Native Alaskan. I’m disjointed from being Native. Correction. I used to be. I used to believe the following. Because I didn’t live on a ...