Kim Hyatt

Star Tribune

Family, police plead for witnesses to come forward in teen's unsolved homicide

By: Kim Hyatt

“We cannot continue to bury our young people. We can't accept this violence as normal.”

Star Tribune

Feds took over Red Lake Nation's child welfare program after series of deaths

By: Kim Hyatt

The Bureau of Indian Affairs, which has assumed control of the embattled enterprise, found “escalating danger to children served through its child welfare program.”

Deaths, abuse and neglect prompt feds to take over child protection at Red Lake

By: Kim Hyatt

Red Lake's child protection system left children vulnerable to abuse and neglect, federal officials said. So they took over.

Star Tribune

Red Lake tried to transform child welfare. But the BIA said it failed to protect kids.

By: Kim Hyatt

The systemic separation of families caused generations of harm. But keeping them together also placed kids in danger.

Red Lake Nation tried to transform child welfare. The BIA said it failed to save kids.

By: Kim Hyatt

Red Lake took jurisdiction of child welfare cases, focused on reunification rather than separation. But the BIA says this approach failed to protect children

Star Tribune

An elusive group targets Klobuchar as election nears

By: Kim Hyatt, Briana Bierschbach

The mailers target Klobuchar's record on police accountability and Israel, but who is paying for them remains unclear.

Who's behind those anti-Klobuchar mailers?

By: Briana Bierschbach, Kim Hyatt

The flyers are attacking Sen. Amy Klobuchar from the left, but it's not clear if it's a left-wing group sending them out.

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An elusive group targets Klobuchar as election nears Briana Bierschbach and Kim Hyatt, The Minnesota Star Tribune Oct 20, 2026 53 mins ago

By: Briana Bierschbach, Kim Hyatt

MINNEAPOLIS — Mailers attacking Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar for not being left-wing enough are arriving in Minneapolis mailboxes weeks before the Nov. 3 general election for governor.

Star Tribune

Feds wrongly listed Red Lake Nation boy as dead in child welfare takeover

By: Kim Hyatt

The family of the boy, whose brother died over the summer, is asking what the mistake by the Bureau of Indian Affairs says about its takeover of Red Lake’s child welfare program.

Star Tribune

It's illegal to destroy wild rice in Minnesota. Unless you have a permit.

By: Chloe Johnson, Kim Hyatt

Hundreds of lakeshore owners apply to remove the state grain, a stressed and sacred resource. Their requests are rarely denied.