ANETH, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a body tentatively identified as a 4-year-old girl missing since mid-March has found in a creek on the Utah portion of the Navajo Nation. A Navajo Nation Police Department statement said the body was tentatively identified by parents of Anndine Jones after being found […]
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Officials in northwestern New Mexico are hoping Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs a bill that could open a film studio near the Navajo Nation. The Farmington Daily Times reports San Juan County is waiting for the governor to sign a capital outlay bill that includes $1 million for […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Native American tribes on the hunt for animal hides, antlers, teeth and other parts for cultural and religious use have a unique new resource: the state’s wildlife agency. A recently launched program allows Arizona’s nearly two dozen tribes to make requests to the state Game […]
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Navajo Nation officials are in search of funding to replace two, deteriorating tribal jails. U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan toured one in Shiprock last week that has asbestos, lead and mold. The Farmington Daily Times reports Lujan saw cracks in walls, plumbing issues and cramped spaces in what […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Navajo Nation company has ended its bid to buy a coal-fired power plant on the reservation and the mine that feeds it. The decision Friday means the Navajo Generating Station and the Kayenta Mine will close this year, ending decades of operation in northeastern Arizona. […]
ANETH, Utah (AP) — After three unsuccessful days of ground and water searches, authorities said Sunday they were temporarily suspending the search for a 4-year-old girl missing since last week on the Utah portion of the Navajo Nation. In a statement, the Navajo Police Department said a pause in the […]
ANETH, Utah (AP) — A search continued Saturday along the San Juan River on the Utah portion of the Navajo Nation for a 3-year-old girl missing since late Thursday. The Navajo Nation Police Department said in a statement on Facebook that over 100 volunteers searched for Andanndine Jones on foot […]
ANETH, Utah (AP) — The Latest on the search for a missing 3-year-old girl on the Navajo Nation (all times local): 8:20 p.m. Navajo Nation authorities say they have yet to find a missing 3-year-old girl who reportedly wandered away from her home in southeastern Utah. Navajo police say officers […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez has vetoed $3 million that the Navajo Nation Council approved for an ongoing snow emergency. Nez said in a release Monday that he line-item vetoed the money for the Nation’s 110 chapters not only because of unspent chapter funds, but […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A Tuba City man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to a count of second-degree murder. Eric Iron was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Phoenix. Prosecutors agreed to drop five other charges against him. Iron will be in his […]
