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They’re looking at ties between a dumpster company, owned by James W. Bracken III, and a former city official who was on the bank’s board, the Sun-Times has learned.

An unaware driver would hardly know they passed through Breen. The name of the unincorporated community southwest of Durango appears almost nowhere, save for a road sign or two. Even the community bui...

United Illuminating truck. The Office of Consumer Counsel is intervening in the lawsuit United Illuminating filed last month claiming the rate request

State’s tribal members and others want better lessons about Native American history

It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about over the past week:

A Cook County judge on Wednesday cleared the way for the release of a man who has been locked up in prison for more than four decades for the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer. Associate Judge Alfredo Maldonado resentenced Ronnie Carrasquillo, 65, to time served after he spent the last 46 years behind bars for the 1976 murder of Chicago police Officer Terrence Loftus. An Illinois ...

Approximately 1,100 children from 20 indigenous tribes were enrolled at the Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School over a span of 17 years. For many, this

Last summer, a local firefighter took state Rep. Barbara McLachlan and her team around Towaoc to introduce her to constituents after she gained the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in House District 59 through ...

The report, under the direction of Dr. Holly Kathryn Norton, the state archaeologist with History Colorado, hints that there is much more that should be looked at, but the short timeline dictated by the legislature meant some things just didnt get done — and some things the legislature asked for shouldnt be done at all.

Advocates see a new Colorado report on Federal Indian Board Schools as a stepping stone to educating more students about Indigenous populations.