SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Legislature will hold a special session to address the coronavirus crisis starting Thursday. The gathering announced late Monday will be held remotely for the first time to avoid possibly spreading the virus that has already infected one lawmaker. Democratic Sen. Luz Escamilla has […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rutgers University researchers have received U.S. government clearance for the first saliva test to help diagnose COVID-19, a new approach that could help expand testing options and reduce risks of infection for health care workers. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the test under its emergency powers […]
COUNSELOR, N.M. (AP) — The FBI has issued its first poster in a Native American language, seeking information in Navajo on the death of an elderly man six years ago on the New Mexico portion of the vast Navajo Nation reservation. Wilson Joe Chiquito, 75, was beaten to death at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former aide to Joe Biden is accusing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexually assaulting her during the early 1990s when he was a senator. Biden’s campaign denies the charges. In two recent interviews with The Associated Press, Tara Reade alleged the assault occurred in the […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Faced with the threat of overburdened hospitals, states across the country are converting convention centers, sports facilities and performance spaces into backup treatment sites for coronavirus patients. Tennessee is no exception. What some Memphis residents don’t get is why in their city, a shopping center in the middle […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP)-The number of coronavirus cases on the nation’s largest Native American reservation jumped by 17% Saturday as the Navajo Nation prepared to get new rapid-test kits. The Navajo Nation said in a statement that the number of cases on the 27,000-square-mile (70,000-square-kilometer) reservation that sprawls across Arizona, […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Five conservation groups have joined a tribe’s effort to block the expansion of a northeast Nevada gold mine they say would suck water from other area users and destroy cultural resources and habitat for sensitive wildlife dependent on nearby wetlands. The environmentalists filed protests this week […]
ASHLAND, Wis. (AP)-Native Americans across the U.S. are organizing online and social-distancing powwows and posting videos of dances as a way to offer hope and spiritual support during the coronavirus pandemic. Over the weekend, jingle dress dancers and singers on the Bad River Reservation in Wisconsin gathered in a casino […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP)-Two leaders of the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. are in self-quarantine as the Navajo Nation prepares for a weekend-long curfew aimed at curbing the coronavirus outbreak. The virus has swept with ferocity through the Navajo Nation, which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and […]
LEHI, Utah (AP) — A former Lehi City public works chief has been charged with multiple felonies after prosecutors accuse him of allegedly stealing $800,000 from the northern Utah city through fraudulent charges paid to his cousin’s company. Former Lehi City Streets superintendent Wade Allred, 42, was charged with 15 […]
