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A 700% APR lending business tied to Dr. Phil’s son is dividing an Alaska tribe

1 day ago | newsfromthestates.com | Kyle Hopkins

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Co-published with Anchorage Daily News Reporting HighlightsCommunity Divisions: A tribal lending business in Minto, Alaska, is bringing in much-needed revenue but also dividing the community over ethical concerns and questions about who benefits.
In southwest Iowa, Rob Sand hears of water shortages and boil advisories plaguing a town

3 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Cami Koons

EXIRA — “We did run out of water at our house … and that’s not the first time we’ve had dry pipes,” Emmy Benton said to State Auditor Rob Sand at the Exira Public Library during a discussion about recent water system shortages and boil advisories. Sand listened to the concerns as part of a gubernatorial campaign swing through rural Iowa, but problems for Exira, and other customers on Regional Water Rural Water Association’s system, have been ongoing for several years.
Big demand for affordable housing calls for big approach in suburban Nebraska

3 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Cindy Gonzalez

Former Omaha hotel property is training ground for new developer, future affordable housing site OMAHA — A vacant downtown Omaha hotel property with an assorted and sometimes sketchy past, is set to be demolished to make way for a $16 million mixed-income residential property. A unique element of that venture is its team: Lincoln-based Hoppe Development, seasoned in the affordable housing field, paired up with Omahan Donell Brown, who is learning the industry.
Public lands sale may return to ‘big, beautiful’ bill with Mike Lee amendment

4 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Alixel Cabrera

After a controversial provision allowing the sale of public lands in Utah and Nevada was stripped from a massive spending package, Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee hinted he may try to revive it in the Senate. Utah Republican Rep. Celeste Maloy initially proposed selling nearly 11,500 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in southwestern Utah to Washington and Beaver counties, the Washington County Water Conservancy District and St. George, in addition to 450,000 acres in Nevada.
Kalyanaraman becomes latest to leave Maryland Department of Health

4 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Danielle J. Brown

The deputy secretary of public health services is leaving the Maryland Department of Health this week after two years serving under the Moore Administration and more than a decade in both private and public health services in Maryland, state officials confirmed Monday. Tuesday will be Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman’s last day with the department.
Abortion opponents are coming for mifepristone using what medical experts call ‘junk science’

1 week ago | newsfromthestates.com | Shefali Luthra

Using flawed studies and scientific journal publications, abortion opponents are building a body of research meant to question the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, a key target for the movement. The effort comes as federal officials have expressed a willingness to revisit the drug’s approval — and potentially impose new restrictions on a medication used in the vast majority of abortions.
Kodiak man sentenced to one year in prison over illegal transport of Alaska crab to Washington

1 week ago | newsfromthestates.com | Yereth Rosen

A Kodiak fisher has been sentenced to spend a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab, much of it infected with a parasitic disease, out of Alaska to Washington state, federal officials said. The fisherman, Corey Potter, was also sentenced to two years’ supervised release following his jail term, during which he will be barred from commercial fishing anywhere in the world, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
Hunger relief group says it’s facing a $2.5 million budget shortfall due to federal cuts

1 week ago | newsfromthestates.com | Joshua Haiar

South Dakota’s largest hunger-relief organization says it faces a $2.5 million budget shortfall next year because of President Donald Trump’s federal funding cuts. Feeding South Dakota CEO Lori Dykstra addressed lawmakers on a budget committee Friday in Pierre. She said the group has already cut the amount of food it provides and has merged distribution sites.
Alaska Job Corps Center in Palmer to close as part of nationwide program ‘pause’

1 week ago | newsfromthestates.com | Amy Bushatz

PALMER — A federally funded residential job training center in Palmer must close completely by the end of June and begin sending students home next week under an “operations pause” ordered this week by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Don Young Alaska Job Corps Center in Palmer is one of more than 100 no-cost residential training centers nationwide operated by Department of Labor contractors.
Alaska schools need teachers. They’re hiring them from the Philippines.

1 week ago | newsfromthestates.com | Brian Venua

Alaska schools are hiring teachers from the Philippines amid a massive national shortage. It’s the latest wave of immigrants from Southeast Asia to come to the state. This is part one of a five part audio series, Mabuhay sa Alaska, by KMXT and breaks down how and why those teachers are here, as well as what it means for both Alaska, and the island nation.