Arizona Senator Mark Kelly will vote to confirm U-S Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Fire managers on the Kaibab National Forest plan a prescribed burn this week near Tusayan.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is pressing members of Congress to reauthorize and expand federal benefits for people known as downwinders who were exposed to radiation in the western U.S. during the Cold War.

Arizona, Louisiana and Missouri have sued President Joe Biden’s administration to prevent federal officials from ending a public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border.

Several road projects are planned along U.S. Route 89A through Oak Creek Canyon. ADOT says the work will begin this spring and run into 2023.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s selection as the first Native American to serve in the position has opened the door for tribes who point to a history fraught with broken promises by the U.S. government. Since her appointment, Haaland has met with nearly 130 of the nation’s 574 federally recognized tribes as she seeks to overhaul a federal system that has limited Native American relations.

The U.S. has agreed to accept up to 100,000 refugees from Ukraine, which has experienced a flight of more than 4 million people since late February. Faith-based groups have already been helping Ukrainians who have made their way to the United States.

Top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints met this weekend for their annual conference to address COVID-19, the church’s support of non-discrimination laws, Russia’s war in Ukraine and legacies of racism. It was the church’s first in-person conference since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

Democrat Diego Rodriguez dropped out of the race for Arizona attorney general Friday, leaving former Corporation Commissioner Kris Mayes as the only Democrat in the contest.

The U.S. Army has reached an agreement with Zuni Pueblo, the Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico to pay $1.5 million toward restoring environmental damage done at a former munitions depot.