Kayenta News

Statistically speaking, there are few aspiring professionals like Rowin Begay. Most patients across the nation's tribal lands visit doctors who don't speak their language or come from their area.

Ambrose Bennett, 26, of Tonalea, Ariz., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 27 months in federal prison for Second Degree Burglary.

It all began about 11:13 a.m. on Sept. 13 at the home of Claudina Yazzie's parents in the Navajo Housing Authority complex in Jeddito, Ariz.

Eric Lee Kinney, 23, of Tonalea, Arizona, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 41 months in federal prison for robbery.

KAYENTA, Ariz. Construction of a new 10-bed Indian Health Service hospital in Kayenta, Ariz., began Wednesday with a groundbreaking ceremony, kicking off a three-year project intended to improve health care access for the isolated Navajo Nation community.

Navajo warriors whose spoken code proved crucial to World War Two victories paraded through their capital Friday in an annual ceremony honoring the tribe's bravest and most-respected elders.

MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah -- From her perch inside a rickety hut facing the Mittens, two glove-shaped sandstone buttes that define one of America's most iconic vistas, Louise Rock has an ideal vantage point from which to monitor the comings and goings in one of the world's most dramatic landscapes.

Getting there: Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is about a five-hour drive from Phoenix or Albuquerque.

The towering crimson buttes and spires are as legendary as they are magnificent.

While citizens across the country are celebrating Independence Day this weekend, hundreds of native filmmakers are commemorating a much older history.

All the news, views and events from day three of the world's toughest bike race.

A Leupp, Ariz., man is in jail facing murder charges in the June 4 stabbing death of another Leupp man.

Navajo National Monument, not far from Kayenta, AZ and Monument Valley is a great place right now to see high desert wildflowers.

Police said the accident happened about 12:25 a.m. at mile marker 89 near Shiprock when a car driven by Glendora Kellywood, 32, of Rattlesnake, N.M., suddenly swerved into the southbound lane in front of a car carrying three residents of Mittenrock, Ariz.

Tonight at 8 p.m., the Kayenta community will have a chance to see a musical spectacular featuring 92 young performers from 22 countries.

The projects are part of a $500 million infusion into the resource-strapped IHS announced Friday by the service's new director, former University of Arizona medical school professor Yvette Roubideaux, in a telephone press conference from Washington, D.C. "I'm really grateful to President Obama for allocating these critical resources to Indian ...

As teachers and students walked by on their way to the cafeteria just before their lunch hour Wednesday, a Shonto Preparatory School student hanged herself from the bleachers at the school's stadium, a faculty member who witnessed the event reported.

The Arizona Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division, conducts a roadblock April 29 at the port of entry in Tse Bonito, N.M. Officials were stopping diesel-powered vehicles and checking for illegal fuel.

By Sam Conner The Winslow Lady Bulldogs won a doubleheader from the Monument Valley Lady Mustangs last Monday at Kayenta, 16-1 and 17-1. The wins left them undefeated in 3A North Region play and with a magnificent 18-3 record for the season.