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Arizona tribe temporarily bans dances after police officer is fatally shot responding to disturbance

Jun 2, 2024 The Phoenix FBI is investigating the fatal shooting, but it has not released many details.

Horseshoe Bend, five miles downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell, is a popular viewing spot for the Colorado River.

Native American tribes give unanimous approval to proposal securing Colorado River water

May 24, 2024 The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed settlement.

Family members of Tohono O’odham tribal member Raymond Mattia speak outside the Evo A. DeConcini Federal Courthouse in Tucson on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023.

Family of Tohono O'odham man killed by Border Patrol last year files wrongful death suit

May 20, 2024 Raymond Mattia was killed in the Tohono O’odham community of Menagers Dam the night of May 18, 2023.

Horseshoe Bend is among the major tourism draws for Page. The waters are significantly calmer due to its location downstream of Glen Canyon Dam.

Proposed settlement is first step in securing Colorado River water for 3 Native American tribes

May 14, 2024 The Navajo Nation has one of the largest single outstanding claims in the Colorado River basin and will vote soon on the measure in a special session.

Red dresses representing missing and murdered Indigenous women, displayed at the Verna N. Enos Toka Field on the Tohono O'odham Nation, 2018.

District of Arizona works to improve handling of MMIP cases

May 6, 2024 The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona is fortifying how they handle cases involving missing or murdered Indigenous peoples.

Red Butte in Coconino County, Wednesday, Aug. 30. Known as "Wii'i Gdwiisa," in Havasupai, the sacred grounds are protected under President Joe Biden's Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni- Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

Native tribes file to dismiss lawsuit threatening Grand Canyon National Monument

Apr 25, 2024 Conservations groups joined the tribes in filing to intervene in the case.

A series of turquoise signs along southbound U.S. 89 near Tuba City proclaims the Navajo Nation’s resiliency amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Combating this epidemic’: Native Americans gather to address suicide prevention

Apr 21, 2024 In 2019, suicide was the second leading cause of death for Native Americans and Alaska Natives between the ages of 10 and 34.

A marker at the Park of the Canals in Mesa shows a map of the ancient canal system dug by the ancestral Sonoran Desert people.

Ancient farmers dug canals that shaped Phoenix's modern water system

Apr 18, 2024 Those ancient farmers have been referred to as the "Hohokam" but it’s not the name of a tribe or a people, and their O'Odham, Hopi, and Zuni descendants do not call them that.

US court rejects a request by tribes to block $10B SunZia energy transmission project in Arizona

Apr 16, 2024 The project — approved in 2015 following a lengthy review — has been touted as the biggest U.S. electricity infrastructure undertaking since the Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s.

The shaft tower at the Energy Fuels Inc. uranium Pinyon Plain Mine is shown Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, near Tusayan, Ariz. The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a long-contested project that largely has sat dormant since the 1980s.

Uranium is being mined near the Grand Canyon as prices soar and the US pushes for more nuclear power

Mar 30, 2024 The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work at a mine less than 10 miles from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

The Arizona state Capitol on March 3, 2020.

AZ House Committee rejects sober living homes regulation bill despite Senate support

Mar 22, 2024 The bill passed the Arizona Senate unanimously.

File image of the Winged Victory weather vane atop the copper dome at the historic Capitol Building in Phoenix.

Arizona legislation to better regulate rehab programs targeted by Medicaid scams is moving forward

Mar 15, 2024 Hathalie said she anticipates a vote by the full House could come as soon as Thursday.

SunZia Transmission Project sparks legal dispute over sacred sites preservation

Mar 14, 2024 The Tohono O’odham Nation and San Carlos Apache Tribe seek to halt construction, citing threats to cultural heritage.

People line up to try and land an old tire on the BICAS cactus.

I’m taking this way too seriously as an adult: The growth of mountain biking in Arizona

Mar 14, 2024 In two very different stories about one of America's fastest-growing sports, we head to a 24-hour mountain bike relay race. Then we talk to some of the people behind a documentary about spreading mountain biking on the Navajo Nation.

Water enters an irrigation canal on the Gila River Indian Reservation on May 7, 2021. The Gila River Indian Community is among the most important tribal players in ongoing negotiations about using water from the Colorado River.

Gila River Indian Community says it doesn't support latest Colorado River sharing proposals

Mar 14, 2024 The tribe is among the most prominent of the 30 federally-recognized tribes that use the Colorado River.

A pink sunset lights the sky behind Saguaro National Park east.

The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it's a time of confusion

Mar 10, 2024 The Navajo Nation, which also stretches into Utah and New Mexico, will reset clocks for one hour later despite being situated between two territories that remain on standard time: the rest of Arizona and the neighboring Hopi reservation.

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