The November midterm election could lead to 17 states with Native candidates elected to local leadership positions ...

Ty Running Fisher, a citizen of the Blackfeet Nation and a descendant of the Quinault Indian Nation, a fourth year student at the UW School of Medicine, on the day of his white coat ceremony and ...

Two initiatives on the ballot this November have been called anti-2SLGBTQIA+ by opponents of the measures, including the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon ordered federal defendants to change Columbia Basin hydropower operations to protect endangered salmon and steelhead populations. John Day Dam ...

Jason Smith and Kremena Doust pose for a photo at their ranch on the Warm Springs Reservation on Sept. 30, 2026. (Photo by Brian Bull, Underscore Native News) On a sunny and calm afternoon in late ...

The remnants of Typhoon Halong have ravaged the Yukon-Kuskokim Delta in western Alaska. More than 1,000 people are seeking shelter in schools in the largely Yup-ik villages of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk, ...

From left, Manuel Bayya’s cousin Heidi Bayya; his stepsister Sissy Rilatos; his daughter, Shaā Bayya; and his sister Lacy Murillo gathered together at the Lane County Sheriff’s Department on March 27, ...

Images of Manuel Bayya, a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, was 47 years old when he went missing on March 17, 2022. Image contributed by his sister, Lacy Murillo. (Photo by Nika ...

Following an earlier Point-In-Time count, new data shows Native people account for 15 percent of unsheltered individuals in King County, Washington.

Gearing up for the November elections, Native leaders across the country weigh in on how the two proposed initiatives would harm students.

Underscore Native News checks on the ranchers’ operations nearly three months after the Bench Fire burned most of their grazing district.

From left, Jacob Wallis, Umatilla, Yakama and Nimiipuu, business services manager at Nixyaawii Community Financial Services; Casey Pearlman, Iñupiaq, executive director of ATNI-EDC; and Celilo Miles, ...