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

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.

The Star Valley Town Council says they are focused on “eliminating the adult entertainment use” and currently do not have any plans for what they will do with the building.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state’s rules for implementing a program to award social equity business under Arizona’s 2020 law legalizing recreational marijuana.