Havasupai Tribe

The company that owns a uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon has resumed trucking ore from the site. It follows an agreement with Navajo Nation officials last month to allow the shipments to cross the reservation.

A new poll shows nearly 80% of registered Arizona voters support the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon.

The U.S. Forest Service says it is reviewing a 1986 environmental assessment of a uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

The National Park Service says they have recovered the body of a Gilbert woman swept away in a flash flood near the Havasupai Reservation in the Grand Canyon.

More than a hundred people gathered Saturday at Red Butte south of the Grand Canyon to protest the mining and hauling of uranium ore. It’s the latest in a string of Indigenous-led protests calling for the closure of the Pinyon Plain mine.

In late July, the first truckloads of uranium ore were shipped from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon. The mine’s owner says it's crucial as the world moves away from fossil fuels, but conservationists and Indigenous communities are pushing back.

Attorney General Kris Mayes is calling on the U.S. Forest Service to conduct a new environmental assessment for the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon. The last such study was done in 1986 and she’s concerned the uranium mine's permits are based on outdated science.

Thursday marks the first anniversary of President Joe Biden’s designation of a nearly million-acre national monument near Grand Canyon National Park. The area is culturally significant to 13 tribes in the region.

The transportation of uranium ore through portions of northern Arizona including the Navajo Nation is on hold until concerns are addressed.

The Havasupai Tribe is set to receive technical assistance and a federal grant for a flood warning system and siren.