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Navajo Nation Council to hold spring session as scheduled

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer have vetoed a resolution that sought to cancel the tribal council’s session less than three days befo...

Feds tell New Mexico to stop diverting federal school aid

The New Mexico Public Education Department has been told to stop diverting millions of dollars in federal Impact Aid grants designated for specific school districts. The decades-o...

Senate candidate Romanoff wins spot in Democratic primary

LONGMONT – Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and former Colorado state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff has earned a spot in the June 30 Democratic primary that will choose a challenger to incum...

Resume to play plans for sports leagues

The Associated Press canvassed major sports around the world asking what the plan was to return to action. Most leagues gave aggressive and optimistic plans to start play within weeks, while...

Cadets graduate after trying semester at Air Force Academy

COLORADO SPRINGS – Nearly 1,000 cadets graduated Saturday from the Air Force Academy in a scaled-down ceremony that capped a trying semester of virtual classes and solitary dorm-room meals b...

Colorado National Guard to test 3 nursing homes for COVID-19

COLORADO SPRINGS – Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has announced that the Colorado National Guard will be sent into three of the state’s largest nursing homes to conduct coronavirus testing. ...

Gallup high school gym to reopen for coronavirus patients

GALLUP, N.M. – A high school in Gallup will reopen its gym as a 60-bed alternative care facility to help hospitals treat an increasing number of coronavirus patients, a federal engineering a...

Navajo Nation orders masks be worn in public on reservation

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation is ordering all people on the tribe’s sprawling reservation to wear protective masks when out in public to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. ...

Rolling Stones to join Gaga for TV event battling COVID-19

NEW YORK – The Rolling Stones will join Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Billie Eilish for the upcoming TV special aimed at fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Advocacy...

U.S. grants Navajo Nation authority to use unassigned airwaves

PHOENIX – The federal government is giving the Navajo Nation temporary authority to use unassigned airwaves to provide wireless broadband service over the tribe’s sprawling reservation that ...

Plan calls for diverting, storing water from Gila River

SILVER CITY, N.M. – Water from two rivers that span parts of New Mexico and Arizona would be diverted and stored under a project proposed by the New Mexico Central Arizona Project Entity. ...

Taylor Swift has canceled all shows, appearances for 2020

NEW YORK – Taylor Swift is canceling all of her performances and appearances for the rest of the year because of the coronavirus pandemic. “With many events throughout the world a...