Tuba City News

The rules are simple: The contestant who spits a pit from a chilled Montmorency cherry the farthest on the asphalt surface wins.

Evelyn James, 54, of Tuba City, and a tribal council member of the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona, pleaded guilty Wednesday to false statements, theft from a tribal government receiving federal funds and money laundering, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

One of the leaders of a northern Arizona Indian tribe has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 in tribal funds.

Almost time to spit some pits. Yes, it's early July, when cherry pits are spat, some for surprisingly long distances, at the Cherry Pit Spitting Capital of the World.

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A Navajo woman is hoping to carve a niche for American Indian clothing in Chicago.

Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Yavapai County sheriff's deputies caught two Phoenix men wanted in connection with the robbery and kidnapping of a Tuba City man in the parking lot of a Flagstaff Wal-Mart an hour earlier.

The following is a press release from the Coconino County Sheriff's Office: On June 8 at approximately 11:00pm a Tuba City man was kidnapped and robbed at gun point from the Walmart parking lot in Flagstaff.

Police said the accident happened about 12:25 a.m. at mile marker 89 near Shiprock when a car driven by Glendora Kellywood, 32, of Rattlesnake, N.M., suddenly swerved into the southbound lane in front of a car carrying three residents of Mittenrock, Ariz.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Public Health ; Respiratory / Asthma Article Date: 27 May 2009 - 4:00 PDT Coconino County Health Department officials announced today the first case of H1N1 flu in Coconino County.

Two American Indian tribes are pressing the federal government to clean up an area where they say medical, uranium and other radioactive waste was dumped and has been contaminating the land and groundwater.

On May 8, President Barack Obama signed a law repealing the Bennett Freeze, thus setting the stage for the Navajos to begin seeking federal funding to rehabilitate an area larger than the state of Delaware that has had no significant development for four decades.

Sombrero had walked into the hospital at about 1:30 p.m. May 8, demanding to see his doctor.

With the stroke of a pen Friday, President Barack Obama officially ended more than four decades of angst and anger caused by a land dispute between the Navajo and Hopi tribes.

Written by JoKAY DOWELL TUBA CITY, Ariz. A Navajo traditional healer has alleged that eagle feathers belonging to her were wrongly confiscated by federal Fish and Wildlife agents in a raid on a home where she had taken the feathers to be crafted into a beaded fan.

The Navajo Department of Transportation, working in conjunction with the Arizona Department of Transportation will offer two public meetings on Thursday, April 23, to allow the public to learn about the progress on the Navajo Nation Long Range Transportation Plan Update.

Outreach efforts by the Translational Genomics Research Institute extend to the far corners of Arizona.

A shortage of doctors at the Kayenta, Ariz., Health Center has prompted officials to cut back on emergency services.

Students will have the chance to visit the Canyon de Chelley, above. Students will have the opportunity to experience Navajo culture in the Southwest this spring on a trip lead by Dr.

Looking like a math teacher, Tuba City Superintendent Bill Higgins explains at last week's school board meeting how the district ended up with a $4.86 million budget reduction looming for next school year.