TUBA CITY, Arizona (AP) — The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, when late winter winds were still blowing off the mesas and temperatures at dawn were often barely above freezing. It was carried in from Tucson, doctors say, by a man who had been to a basketball […]
TUBA CITY, Arizona (AP) — The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, carried in from Tucson, doctors say, by a man who had been to a basketball tournament and then made the long drive back to a small town in the Navajo highlands. There, believers were preparing to […]
WINDOW ROCK, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Nation’s health department is reporting 119 new cases of COVID-19 and a total of 96 deaths as of Friday. The tribe says there have been 2,876 confirmed cases so far. Most of them are in McKinley County in New Mexico and Apache County […]
TSAILE, Ariz. (AP) — A college on the Navajo Nation has a record number of students receiving bachelor’s degrees. Diné College holds one graduation ceremony each year in the spring. It was scheduled Friday, but the coronavirus changed that. Instead, students are being recognized for a month on the college’s […]
WINDOW ROCK, N.M. (AP) — Navajo Nation officials report six additional deaths from COVID-19, raising the total on the tribe’s reservation to at least 79 as of Tuesday. Tribal officials also reported 85 additional positive COVID-19 cases, raising the total on the reservation at least 2,599 as of Tuesday. The […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez called on elected officials in reservation border towns on Monday to work with the tribe to combat the coronavirus after one mayor made a comment he said was insensitive. The Navajo Nation has been hit harder by COVID-19 than any other […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer have finalized another agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that will allow the Chinle Community Center to be used as an alternative care site to isolate positive coronavirus patients. The move was made […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After more than a decade of planning and protests, U.S. land managers have crafted a proposal for how to manage oil and gas development across a wide swath of northwestern New Mexico that includes a national park and areas held sacred by Native American tribes. The […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The only Native American on federal death row lost a bid Thursday to look into potential racial bias in his case. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision by a federal court in Arizona that Lezmond Mitchell had no grounds to interview jurors for […]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. health officials say coronavirus infections are beginning a renewed surge across the Navajo Nation and bordering areas that may peak in mid-May — a sign that the worst has yet to come in one of the nation’s hardest hit rural areas. In a press […]
