Tribe, US officials reach deal to save Colorado River water
The $233 million pact with the Gila River Indian Community, announced in Phoenix, was hailed as an example of the kind of cooperation needed to rescue the river.
The Buzz: Why a 32-year-old federal law has failed to bring Native American remains home
A federal law was supposed to ensure returns of most remains by 1995. So why are thousands of Arizona tribal remains still not back with their people?
FBI investigates rehab scams targeting Indigenous community
Bogus organizers defraud the government out of money meant to help people at their most vulnerable.
Former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly dies at age 75
He died Wednesday morning in New Mexico.
Apaches tell court copper mine would harm sacred sites
U.S. federal government plans for a land swap that will allow Resolution Copper to build the mine will destroy the land in eastern Arizona known as Oak Flat.
Supreme Court seems split in Navajo Nation water rights case
The justices weighed a dispute involving the federal government and the Navajo Nation’s quest for water from the drought-stricken Colorado River.
Feds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water
The tribe doesn't have enough water and says that the federal government is at fault.
First Navajo President Dies
Peterson Zah was elected in 1990.
Interior: $580M headed to 15 tribes to fulfill water rights
The money will help carry out the agreements that define the tribes' rights to water from rivers and other sources and pay for pipelines, pumping stations, and canals that deliver it to reservations.
‘We were always sovereign’: Hia-Ced O’odham seek federal recognition as a tribe
Descendants of those four surviving families are working to gain recognition.
The Buzz: Sports Betting in Arizona
Arizona has always been a destination for major sporting events, but those within the state now also have the ability to gamble on the outcomes of those games.
USDA awards $930 million towards wildfire preventions
Three million acres of the San Carlos Apache Tribal Forest Protection Project will receive funding.
Buu Nygren sworn in as next Navajo Nation president
Nygren beat out incumbent President Jonathan Nez in the tribe's general election by about 3,500 votes.
Biden signs water bills benefiting 3 tribes in Arizona
President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday giving leasing authority to the Colorado River Indian Tribes, whose reservation tracks its namesake on the Arizona-California border.
Northern Arizona tribe to get federal aid for flood damage
President Joe Biden has approved a disaster declaration made by the Havasupai Tribe, freeing up funds for flood damage as it prepares to re-open for tourists after nearly three years.
