U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Apache Stronghold to halt a massive copper mining project at Oak Flat in central Arizona.

A federal judge in Phoenix has temporarily halted transferring the Indigenous sacred site Oak Flat to a copper mining company.

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.

The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes in a dispute with the federal government over the cost of health care when tribes run programs in their own communities.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week on whether the government is responsible for covering more healthcare costs for Native American tribes.

The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, lay in repose today in the court's Great Hall. O’Connor, an Arizona native, died Dec. 1 at age 93. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor remembered her as a trailblazer who never lost sight of how the high court's decisions affected ordinary people.

Sandra Day O'Connor died in Phoenix on Friday of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness.

Attorney General Kris Mayes is part of a multi-state coalition urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision restricting some medication abortions.

Officials at Northern Arizona University say the school won’t be affected by this week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the use of race as a factor in determining admissions.