Oak Flat

The Trump administration plans to reissue an environmental impact statement that would permit the government to exchange land with Resolution Copper at Oak Flat in the Tonto National Forest.

Apache Stronghold formally filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in a final attempt to save one of the Apache’s most sacred sites from a copper mine.

An Apache-led nonprofit that has nearly exhausted its legal options to protect a sacred Arizona site from copper mining is traveling across the country on a prayer journey. They're headed to D.C. to file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

On today's newscast: The Navajo Nation is considering legislation to approve a sweeping federal settlement over access to the Colorado River and other key water sources, Habitat for Humanity has completed two homes in the remote Supai Village on Havasupai land, and advocates for the Apache sacred site Oak Flat will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case over a massive copper mine that threatens the area.

An Apache group that has fought to protect land it considers sacred from a copper mining project in central Arizona has suffered a significant blow.

Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider sacred say they are increasingly worried U.S. officials will move forward on the project even as they await a federal appellate court ruling in the case.

A Native American group that's trying to stop an effort to build one of the largest copper mines in the United States told a full federal appeals court panel Tuesday that the project would prevent Apaches from exercising their religion by destroying land they consider sacred.

An Apache group battling a foreign firm that wants to build one of the largest U.S. copper mines on what tribal members say is sacred land is getting a new chance to make its point to a full federal appeals court panel.

The Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Act will offer permanent protection to the site by blocking mining companies from setting up there.

A broad coalition of religious groups are urging a federal appeals court to protect an Apache sacred site in Arizona from one of the nation’s largest copper mines.