Ramah News

For centuries, Spanish explorers, U.S. Army troops, wagon train emigrants and railroad surveyors carved their names on a huge sandstone outcrop in what's now a national monument famed for those inscriptions.

It's the last stop of the day for Rural Bookmobile West, snugged up against a curb in a corner of the Ramah Post Office parking lot, where a few customers-to-be wait in their cars protected from looming dark clouds that smell of rain.

By Tammy Gray-Searles Nearly $74 million in federal stimulus funds will be used to construct three sorely needed adult detention centers on the Navajo Nation.

Written by Karen Francis,Gallup Independent The program began with a weeklong leadership camp where students learned lessons on teamwork and woke early each morning to run.

Law enforcement officials in McKinley, N.M., said flash floods washed away vehicles and moved boulders into roadways on Saturday.

Four tribal police departments in New Mexico have been awarded $1.25 million in grants from the federal government's Office of Community Policing Services.

In many Navajo communities, elderly are concerned about the land and about the loss of traditional values.

They survived what investigators call a death camp, and now the 20 dogs out of the 90 discovered in a horrific animal hoarding case are starting to thrive.

Tompkins' confirmation came after a lengthy series of Republican senate holds that prevented her from being confirmed after she was approved by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources on April 23.

While planning a trip to the El Morro National Monument I noticed while looking a map of southwest USA that the National Monument is located on an ancient east-west trail in the western U.S. Desert near Ramah, New Mexico.

Investigators say a 73 year old woman who was running what was supposed to be an animal refuge was actually running a death camp.

Over the last several years, an established fall festival and now a newer spring festival have helped promote Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo art in the Zuni Mountains along the Ancient Way Arts Trail.

Dance Hall of the Dead , by Tony Hillerman While characters and story are "purely fictional" the setting for Dance Hall of the Dead , according to the author, is "genuine," with "the Village of Zuni and the landscape of the Zuni reservation and the adjoining Ramah Navajo reservation...accurately depicted." Readers are immersed in the New Mexico ...

US Transportation Department Secretary Ray LaHood announced in a statement released yesterday that the Ramah Navajo Chapter in northwest New Mexico became the nation's first Tribe to receive direct road repair funding from President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .

The Ramah Navajo Chapter in northwest New Mexico will receive more than $644,000 in stimulus money for road repairs.

The Ramah Navajo Chapter owns and operates the Ramah Pine Hill water system located in Ramah, New Mexico.