Torreon News

The remote location of the Torreon/Star Lake Chapter on the Navajo Nation is not expected to deter visitors this weekend to the sixth Eastern Navajo Arts & Crafts Festival.

Din College's commencement exercise is not like most. For starters, a ceremonial fire is kept burning during the ceremony, and the event doesn't end until traditional practitioner and faculty member Avery Denny sings a Din Journey Song.

A series of fires in the past 18 months, including Ojo Peak, Trigo and Big Spring, burned more than 25,000 acres of forest and destroyed nearly 70 homes.

Fire season is on its way. Although recent moisture had eased some of the Mountainair Ranger District's worries about the immediate threat of fire.

Every time I drive to the airport, I see the San Jose Cemetery just west of I-25 and south of Gibson.

Pendleton designs signal a Native American family among the crowd watching the news coverage of Inauguration Day on the wall of the National Museum of the American Indian.

FLAGSTAFF a ' When Navajo lawmakers convene Monday for their winter session, among the first orders of business will be to choose who will preside over their meetings for the next two years.

A state lawmaker is recommending that a building at the National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico be renamed.