Navajo Nation

One bill would codify a new office within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to better track mine sites that need cleanup.

Five years to the day that Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay disappeared from her home, the man who acknowledged beating her, stealing her truck and leaving her on the roadside is free from prison.

The Coppermine Chapter voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing mining projects like the kind Essential Minerals wants to build.

The sole person charged in the 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay received a five-year federal prison sentence. The unsolved case underscores the disproportionate violence Native Americans face.

A new federal report lists numerous problems miners face in receiving benefits. A former coal miner and advocate on the Navajo Nation says the issues it raises aren’t new to him.

A uranium ore truck headed from the Pinyon Plain Mine to Utah crashed on the Navajo Nation near Shonto Wednesday. Officials say no radiation leak was detected.

The Navajo Nation Department of Criminal Investigations does not have an on-site medical examiner, forcing criminal investigators to take on duties they are not properly trained for and slowing down murdered and missing persons investigations.

A consultant for Essential Minerals says the proposed project near Coppermine is only being explored. But Navajo residents are still skeptical.

May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons. It reflects both the collective grief and the resilience of Indigenous communities.

Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley is running for tribal president, becoming the most high-profile candidate to challenge President Buu Nygren in his bid for reelection this year.