Uranium mining

Flagstaff public artist Chip Thomas is among this year’s group of 20 MacArthur Fellows who will receive the no-strings-attached $800,000 grant to further their work.

The Trump administration’s push to allow more road construction in national forests has alarmed preservationists in Arizona, who warn the change could lead to logging or more uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.

House Democrats gave the uranium mining company until Aug. 24 to hand over communications between its executives and the Trump administration.

The answer lies in the country’s unique tax system. Canadian firms are part of a boom in proposed mining projects in the American Southwest.

The crash of an empty uranium ore transport truck has some Navajo officials saying the transport agreement could be improved.

The Navajo Police Department says an empty uranium transport semi-truck rolled over Tuesday afternoon during heavy rain on U.S. 160 near Black Mesa on the Navajo Nation.

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.

Brendan Basham is a Diné author, educator and artist who lives in New Mexico near the Navajo Nation and Pueblo of Zuni. Basham was the first-ever culinary resident at Ucross, a foundation that hosts artists in Wyoming, and is working on his second novel after his celebrated debut "Swim Home to the Vanished."

The Environmental Protection Agency has begun the cleanup of uranium mine waste in the Lukachukai Mountains near Four Corners on the Navajo Nation.

The U.S. Department of Justice has published guidelines for those who plan to apply for the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act after it was renewed and expanded in July.