economy

The federal funding freeze, despite being temporarily stayed by courts, has blocked promised grant money from reaching small business owners in Arizona.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren signed a $24 million grant to expand production of high-tech manufactured homes at the former site of the Navajo Generating Station near Page.

A recent report highlights the difficulty of getting bank loans on the Navajo and Hopi nations. It found a lack of access to banking services has profound effects on housing, business, and public health.

A nonprofit on the Navajo Nation has started a business incubator known as Change Labs to foster economic development without losing Indigenous ways of thinking.

Trade missions took Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and New Mexico counterpart Michelle Lujan Grisham to the self-governing island of Taiwan in recent weeks.

General Motors says it will close a large computer center near Phoenix at the end of October, eliminating 940 jobs.

The key committee in the U.S. House has approved a bill that would reverse the Biden administration’s recent ban on oil and gas drilling near Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

A summit this week will explore ways to make the tourism economy of Grand Canyon National Park more inclusive to Indigenous peoples. The Grand Canyon is the ancestral home of at least 11 tribal nations. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with Jack Pongyesva, program manager of the Intertribal Centennial Conversations group, which organized the first-of-its-kind event.

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema quietly shaped President Joe Biden’s big economic, health care and climate bill.

Visitation to Arizona’s national parks and monuments dropped dramatically during the first year of the pandemic, but a federal report shows the numbers are climbing again. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports.