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Campaign season opens for Navajo Nation presidency

ALBUQUERQUE – Navajos seeking to become president of the Navajo Nation, the country’s largest American Indian reservation, began submitting applications Thursday. The race has dra...

DATE: May 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Sports betting ruling has ripples for U.S. tribes with casinos

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – American Indian tribes are welcoming an opportunity to offer sports betting in potentially hundreds of casinos across the country after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the ...

DATE: May 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Sports

Navajo president’s daughter on leave following DWI arrest

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation president’s chief legal counsel and daughter has been placed on administrative leave, weeks after she was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxica...

DATE: May 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Dozens of wild horses found dead amid Southwest drought

Animals were used to finding water in stock ponds

DATE: May 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation: More than 100 horses apparent victims of drought

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Dozens of horses have died on tribal land in northern Arizona, apparently after getting trapped in a muddy stock pond as drought grips the region. Navajo Nation...

DATE: May 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Dry conditions, strong winds worry firefighters in Arizona

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Firefighters battling a wildfire in north-central Arizona were hampered Monday by strong winds and dry conditions, as residents of surrounding communities remained out of ...

DATE: Apr 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Low, steady flows from Arizona dam could benefit bugs

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Any great fishing hole depends on the health and well-being of its bugs. In a stretch of the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam, anglers have been pulling out...

DATE: Apr 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Email reveals potential buyer for Navajo coal-fired plant

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The potential investors of a coal-fired power plant in northern Arizona have been identified as a New York-based firm that focuses on distressed companies and one of its s...

DATE: Apr 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Firm narrows potential buyers for Arizona coal-fired plant

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An investment firm tasked with finding a new owner for an Arizona coal plant is focused mostly on an unnamed potential investor, but critics of the plant say talks to keep...

DATE: Apr 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arizona tribe: Ruling could help Native students across U.S.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Stephen C. has been taught only math and English at a U.S.-run elementary school for Native American children deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon. Teachers have left midy...

DATE: Apr 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tribes see improvements, hurdles as they charge non-Natives

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – American Indian tribes have taken greater control over prosecuting non-tribal members who commit some violent crimes in Indian Country five years after Congress passed a k...

DATE: Apr 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Grand Canyon tests change in water system serving visitors

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Crews are drilling at the bottom of the Grand Canyon to test the idea of shifting the area where water is drawn to serve millions of people at the national park’s popular ...

DATE: Apr 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life