Two Native American tribes, the state of New Mexico and the U.S. Army have finalized a restoration plan for a former military installation near Gallup.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court on Jan. 23 ruled that tribal courts have jurisdiction over personal injury and property damage cases brought against Native American casinos, ending a long battle that saw pueblos and other tribes advocate for protecting sovereignty when such legal claims arise.
PHOENIX — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has proposed requiring students to attend public school for 100 days before becoming eligible for a voucher program in a move designed to rein in the skyrocketing costs and reduce the number of participants.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — When Lily Gladstone took the stage the night of Jan. 7 to accept her first Golden Globe, she spoke to the live TV audience in the Blackfeet language.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico marijuana regulators Jan. 3 revoked the licenses of two growing operations in a rural county for numerous violations and have levied a $1 million fine against each business.
TUCSON, Ariz. — A federal grand jury in southern Arizona has indicted a Tucson man and woman in an alleged conspiracy to embezzle millions of dollars from a nonprofit, federally funded tribal health care organization.
A federal grand jury indictment says two men killed about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, during a "killing spree" on Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere. Federal authorities say the men then sold eagle parts on a black market that has been a long-running problem for U.S. wildlife officials.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New oil and natural gas leasing will be prohibited on state land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park, an area sacred to Native Americans, for the next 20 years under an executive order by New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard.
The tractors are back at work clearing land and building access roads for a $10 billion transmission line that the Biden administration describes as an important part of the nation’s transition to renewable energy.
SANTA FE, N.M. — State prosecutors added hate-crime allegations Nov. 2 to charges of attempted murder against a New Mexico man accused in the shooting of a Native American activist amid confrontations about aborted plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador in public, at a court hearing Thursday in northern New Mexico.
From Alcatraz Island to a park in New York City, Native American people celebrated their centuries-long history of resilience Oct. 9 with ceremonies, dances and speeches.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez announced Monday that he's running for Congress. Nez, a 48-year-old Democrat, will vie for the seat occupied by incumbent Eli Crane, a Republican who has represented Arizona's redrawn 2nd Congressional District since last year.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Biden administration has pledged over $200 million toward reintroducing salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin in an agreement with tribes that includes a stay on litigation for 20 years.
ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department has tapped an official with the federal government's water management bureau to serve as a deputy assistant secretary for water and science.
SANTA FE, N.M. — A museum in New Mexico to honor the Navajo Code Talkers is about $40 million shy of becoming a reality, according to organizers.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to murder in the starvation death of her 6-year-old son was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole July 27 after witnesses described the horrors of the tiny closet that reeked of urine where he and his young brother were kept and denied food.
Evacuation orders for a handful of residents in western Arizona impacted by a wildfire have been lifted as fire danger escalates in parts of the West that have been left high and dry by an evaporating monsoon season.
Grand Canyon National Park is getting $27.5 million in federal highway money to upgrade its aging fleet of shuttle buses, which help the more than four million annual visitors get around the huge park.
A federal board has sided with one of the largest coal producers in the United States in a contract dispute with a major freight railroad, ordering BNSF Railway to transport at least 4.2 million tons of coal this year for overseas use.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is urging President Joe Biden to use the Antiquities Act to designate the tribally proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and other top state officials announced a crackdown Tuesday, May 16, on Medicaid fraud, particularly honing in on illegitimate group homes.
PHOENIX (AP) — Human remains that had been buried for decades in a California gravesite and marked as “Jane Doe" have been identified as a Navajo woman who went missing from northern Arizona, authorities said.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The city of Tucson plans to return ancestral land tied to the Tohono O'odham Nation. The Arizona Daily Star reported the Tucson City Council unanimously approved a proposal earlier this month to give more than 10 acres of city land at the base of Sentinel Peak to the tribe.
The U.S. government is embarking on an effort to record the oral histories of survivors and descendants of boarding schools that sought to “civilize” Indigenous students, often through abusive practices.
The US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined tribal leaders and members of Congress to celebrate the newly designated Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — Former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly died Wednesday after a long illness, according to a family spokesman.
Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed an executive order banning racial discrimination based on a person's hair in Arizona.
Navajo National Monument has seen 69.4 inches of snow fall this year, more than double the average 28.3 inches typically accumulated by March 1st, while the North Rim has seen 205.5 inches this season.
The department announced the appointment of Lynn Trujillo as senior counselor to the secretary Friday.
Hefty snowfalls that fed the Colorado River in recent weeks may slow the water level decline of Lake Mead on the Nevada-Arizona border, according to some experts.
President Joe Biden has approved a disaster declaration made by the Havasupai Tribe in northern Arizona
Three bills to improve access to water for some tribes in Arizona during a drought are now waiting for President Joe Biden's approval.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Six entities impacted by the 2015 Gold King Mine spill will share roughly $4 million in grants from a settlement, according to the New Mexico Attorney General's office.
SIOUX FALLS S.D. (AP) — South Dakota prosecutors have dropped all charges against the head of an Indigenous-led advocacy organization stemming from a protest during then-President Donald Trump's visit to Mount Rushmore, the group announced Dec. 13.
Arizona's most populous county is warning of a significantly rise in cases of the flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
For years, the Indian Garden name assigned to a popular Grand Canyon campground has been a painful reminder for a Native American tribe that was displaced by the national park.
The U.S. Interior Department's plan to withdraw hundreds of square miles in New Mexico from oil and gas production for the next 20 years is expected to result in only a few dozen wells not being drilled on federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park, according to an environmental assessment.
Seth Damon announced Nov. 4 he would resign as Navajo Nation Council speaker, effective when the council elects someone else to fill the remainder of his term, which ends in January.
The Supreme Court says it will hear a water dispute involving the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation.
The Biden administration's approval of oil leases in a corner of New Mexico has become a battleground over increased development and preservation of Native American sites has prompted a legal challenge.
PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Rescuers used ropes and harnesses to hoist five people to safety after an elevator at a national tourist attraction broke down 21 stories underground.
The body of a woman reported missing last week has been recovered from Lake Mohave in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, authorities said Monday.
Wild horse rights advocates are calling on authorities to prosecute whoever is responsible for the reported killing of more than a dozen wild horses in northeastern Arizona.
SEDONA, Ariz. — Authorities are trying to identify four people who died in a fiery crash involving a passenger car and a tractor-tractor near Sedona.
The communications director for the Navajo Nation Council has been arrested for allegedly injuring a relative at his Gallup home, the Gallup Independent reported.
It's been 80 years since the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marines, transmitting messages using a code based on their then-unwritten Native language to confound Japanese military cryptologists during World War II — and Thomas H. Begay, one of the last living members of the group, still remembers the struggle.
Bill Donovan, a prolific journalist who covered the Navajo Nation for five decades at newspapers in New Mexico and Arizona, has died. He was 76.
Navajo Nation leaders have finalized an agreement on spending priorities for more than $1 billion in federal pandemic relief to improve water, sanitation, housing and communications infrastructure.
Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen at 8 a.m. June 22, after catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads and drove out thousands of tourists.
A man shot and wounded his estranged wife before fatally shooting her male friend and then turning the gun on himself, Flagstaff police said.