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Navajo Nation Council to hold spring session as scheduled

Navajo Nation Council to hold spring session as scheduled

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — 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 before the scheduled start. The Navajo Nation Council is required to hold four regular sessions each year in the […]

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Arizona coronavirus cases near 5,000; 184 known deaths now

PHOENIX (AP) — Positive coronavirus tests in Arizona now have reached nearly 5,000 with 184 known deaths, state health officials said Sunday. The Arizona Department of Health Services said the 4,929 cases around the state were 210 more than Saturday’s total with seven additional deaths. The Mohave County Health Department […]

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Navajo Nation orders masks be worn in public on reservation

Navajo Nation orders masks be worn in public on reservation

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — 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. Tribal officials announced Friday night that the Navajo Department of Health issued an emergency health order for […]

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Foreign ski workers stranded by virus get helping hand

Foreign ski workers stranded by virus get helping hand

MARSHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — They were far away from home — young adults from Latin America, working seasonally at U.S. ski resorts. Then the coronavirus arrived, even before the snows departed. Though some made it home, others were stranded. But they were not abandoned. The resorts have stepped up to […]

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US grants Navajo Nation authority to use unassigned airwaves

US grants Navajo Nation authority to use unassigned airwaves

PHOENIX (AP) — 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 includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. The Federal Communications Commission said its wireless telecommunications bureau on Friday granted the requested […]

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Navajos cancel legislative session amid coronavirus outbreak

Navajos cancel legislative session amid coronavirus outbreak

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation has canceled its spring legislative session amid an outbreak of coronavirus that has kept lawmakers away from the tribal capital. Lawmakers calling in remotely Friday approved the legislation during a special session. The legislative branch cited the difficulty in getting everyone who plays […]

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Hundreds defy Idaho’s stay-at-home order at Capitol protest

Hundreds defy Idaho’s stay-at-home order at Capitol protest

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 1,000 protesters gathered at the Idaho Statehouse Friday afternoon in defiance of Gov. Brad Little’s extension of the statewide stay-at-home order. Little announced Wednesday that the order would extend to the end of April in the effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, although […]

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Vegas giving up bid to pump, pipe water from rural valleys

Vegas giving up bid to pump, pipe water from rural valleys

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas water officials said Friday they’re giving up a decades-long plan to pump groundwater from rural northeast Nevada to suburbs and tourist resorts in the state’s largest metropolitan area. The Southern Nevada Water Authority said in a statement it won’t appeal a judge’s order for […]

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Tribes sue over distribution of coronavirus relief funding

Tribes sue over distribution of coronavirus relief funding

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Several Native American tribes sued the federal government Friday, seeking to keep any of the $8 billion in federal coronavirus relief for tribes kept out of the hands of for-profit Alaska Native corporations. The U.S. Treasury Department is tasked with doling out the money by April […]

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Kane County withdraws from Lake Powell Pipeline project

Kane County withdraws from Lake Powell Pipeline project

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — The Kane County Water Conservancy District has pulled out of a pipeline project designed to pump water to two southern Utah counties, leaving Washington County as the only proposed future user of the pipeline. The decision comes as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has started […]

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