Shiprock News

Garnett Bohannon, of Bluewater, was killed Wednesday when a sedan hit his motorcycle on NM 371, authorities said.

Sithe Global Power LLC says it wants to install carbon capture and sequestration technology at its proposed coal-fired electric project in northwestern New Mexico.

The New Mexico Department of Health and several New Mexico schools are teaching students that they can take an active role in preventing suicides through the Natural Helpers Program.

Criminals at Navajo holding facilities like this one in Kayenta, Ariz., are usually released within a day of being booked.

Reporting from Tuba City, Ariz. - More than 50,000 people are arrested across the Navajo reservation each year -- yet there are only 59 jail beds here.

Dr. Espey, the New Mexico Section Chair, is on faculty at the University of New Mexico and is also the Dean of Students at the UNM Medical School.

Investigators are looking into the discovery of 2 bodies found this week on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, but FBI agents say the deaths are not believed to be related.

Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. is on administrative leave with pay following the Tribal Council's vote Monday to forward an investigation of seven elected officials and division heads to the Navajo attorney general.

A Tribal Council resolution demanding immediate removal from office of Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr.

Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth W. Westbrook once told Capt. Bryan Finch in the Persian Gulf War that soldiers in Westbrook's unit were tired of waiting around.

President of the Advisory Council on Disabilities Hoskie Benally, who is blind, speaks voice commands into his cellular phone Wednesday at a day-long conference sponsored by the Navajo Nation Advisory Council on Disabilities held at the Phil Thomas Performing Arts Center.

Caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, many Democratic lawmakers are seeking a way both to avoid cuts to education and essential services like Medicaid being pushed by Republicans and "conservative" Dems, and get around Gov.

Family members of Army Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth W. Westbrook remember the former Shiprock resident as a dedicated soldier and father.

Family members of Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth W. Westbrook held hands as they slowly walked toward his casket.

Gov. Bill Richardson ordered flags across New Mexico to be flown at half-staff on Friday and Saturday in honor of Army Sgt.

Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. has ordered flags on the reservation to be flown at half-staff from Wednesday to Saturday to honor a fallen soldier from New Mexico.

The National Weather Service expects weather to improve Friday and this weekend after a thunderstorm early Wednesday morning.

A Fort Riley soldier from New Mexico has died after being wounded in Afghanistan.

As of Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, at least 792 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

The U.S. Interior Department has awarded a $27.7 million contract for the construction of a water pipeline on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico.