Navajo Nation

Incumbent Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren has lost his bid for a second term after finishing behind attorney Justin Jones and council speaker Crystalyne Curley in Tuesday’s primary.

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.

Despite severe drought, Navajo Nation weavers still bring their flocks of a rare, sacred breed of sheep to a summer camp at the top of the Carrizo Mountains near the Four Corners.

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.