Shiprock News

The Tribal Council's Health, Education and Human Services Committee this week voted to "strongly oppose the creation of the 90th public school district in New Mexico." The unanimous vote came Tuesday, the same day the state Public Education Department was scheduled to release its final decision on whether a split was in the best interest of public ... (more)

The one that is contested is the nomination to be the Democratic candidate representing District 4. The race pits incumbent Rep.

A special agent overlooks the Shiprock land formation on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.

On Friday, William Brown, general counsel for the New Mexico Public Education Department, sent a letter to the district and Children First, a Kirtland base group in support of splitting the district, explaining the delay.

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.

Shiprock High School Principal Tim Kienitz has agreed to become Farmington High School's next principal, a position Linda Kerr will vacate in June.

Early voting started May 19 and about 1,100 voters have cast ballots, San Juan County Clerk Debbie Holmes said.

New Mexico education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera will make that determination, after listening to four hours of arguments at a quasi-judicial hearing last week at San Juan College in Farmington.

The Navajo Nation may have little recourse when it comes to seeking financial retribution from Hak Ghun, the former CEO of the failed Biochemical Decontamination Systems Manufacturing Inc., of Shiprock.

I headed out of Denver on Wednesday morning, bound for Mormon Lake, about 30 miles southeast of Flagstaff.

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.

A man who skipped town four years ago following allegations he spent millions of Navajo Nation corporate funds for personal use was indicted Tuesday on charges of federal tax evasion.

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.

That's the Navajo name for what everybody else calls Shiprock . It's a rock spire that rises out of the desert southeast of Four Corners in the far northwestern corner of New Mexico .

Don Gray with the New Mexico Film Office talks during a town hall meeting at San Juan College in Farmingotn N.M. on Tuesday, April 24.

Two feature films are using Northwest New Mexico this spring as main locations, a representative of the New Mexico Film Office said.

"The 'make-ready' phase of the project - which is an upgrade of the whole NTUA system - is 85 percent completed," engineering technician Thomas Dennison said recently.