Sacred Sites

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt by Arizona Republicans to nullify a nearly million-acre national monument near the Grand Canyon.

The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international mining companies is complete, but a group of Apache women is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene as a last-ditch effort to stop the project.

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.

Federal energy regulators have denied a key permit for a proposed hydro-storage project on the Navajo Nation. The controversial plan was slated for an environmentally and culturally sensitive area near the Little Colorado River.

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.

A uranium mine less than 10 miles from the South Rim of the Grand has begun production. It comes after decades of preparation work and amid resistance from tribal and environmental groups.

Results of a new statewide poll show high levels of support for the proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument.

On Tuesday federal officials hosted a public meeting in Flagstaff over a proposed national monument near the Grand Canyon that would protect more than a million acres of public land.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the latest bid by conservationists and tribal leaders to block construction of a huge lithium mine along the Nevada-Oregon line.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Friday on a trip to Las Vegas that the newly designated Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada marks a new era of conservation.