Navajo News

Four years after Duane "Chili" Yazzie lost his bid for re-election as president of the Shiprock Chapter, he is back to challenge incumbent William Lee.

Window Rock in Arizona, where the spiritual leaders of two tribes met at the Navajo Nation Museum to talk about sacred lands.

More than 23,000 Navajo students in New Mexico and their parents now can read about special education rights in their native language.

More than 23,000 Navajo students in New Mexico and their parents now can read about special education rights in their native language.

The Public Education Department says a publication to help parents with disabled children is being made available for the first time in the Navajo language.

A one-time expense of $650,000 for the Farmington Animal Shelter and a 2-percent increase in county employee salaries are included the budget but there is not expected to be an increase in property taxes, said Marcella Brashear, the chief financial officer for the county.

Dugan endured jokes about his frugality, his age and his beloved football teams in front of a full house at the Farmington Civic Center.

Environmental groups are hopeful that a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider a permit for a uranium mining operation in western New Mexico could lead to the end to the project.

ALBUQUERQUE - Reehahlio Carroll, 20, will stand trial next month in the 2009 murder of Sister Marguerite Bartz on the Navajo nation, but there is one thing his defense doesn't want jurors to know about the alleged victim - her faith.

Environmentalists are suing the federal government over approval of a permit that allows for expansion of a coal mine in northwestern New Mexico.

TOP: Artists Chrissie Orr, standing, and Susanna Carlisle, background, work with Melvin Dalgai, a local laborer, on the project outside the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock April 30.

TOP: Deandre Etsitty, 3, from Tohatchi, N.M., who has not yet begun school, waits Tuesday at a meeting about the closing of the Tohatchi Middle School.

State Education Secretary-designate Hanna Skandera has 10 days to answer that question, based in part on remarks made Wednesday during a four-hour, quasi-judicial public hearing at San Juan College.

The Mobile Vet Center will provide counseling and other related benefit services throughout the entire Four Corners region.

Pushing up his sleeves and letting his fingers make one more run through his deliberately tousled hair, he reaches for a bit of charcoal on his studio table and goes at the three finished canvases again.

SHIPROCK Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly opened up $8 million in elementary school renovation funds just by renewing a handful of long-overdue leases for the Central Consolidated School District on Friday.

A one vehicle rollover that occurred neat Ojo Encino, N.M., on May 4 claimed the lives of a Navajo grandmother and a four-year-old boy.

On April 25--just 48 hours before stricter federal requirements for community input took effect--the New Mexico Human Services Department submitted Centennial Care, its plan for redesigning the state's Medicaid program, to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.