The White Earth Nation is pausing enforcement of a water use ordinance and will form a regional task force to study water quality and quantity issues. The White Earth Reservation Business Committee ...

A farmer says the White Earth Nation does not have authority to stop him from pumping river water to irrigate land he owns within the reservation — marking the second federal lawsuit to challenge the ...

The lawsuit filed by David Vipond is the latest action in a complex situation that involves tribal sovereignty, tribal court jurisdiction, and water rights and regulation on and around a reservation.

It would be a rare sight to spot an airboat equipped with a machine harvesting wild rice on northern Minnesota water. That’s because such a harvesting method is prohibited by tribal and state law. But ...

The latest surprise from the Legislature, which is full of them, is that bills have been introduced to give the state-owned portion of Upper Red Lake and a 1-mile buffer of state-owned land ...