Author: Donovan Quintero

Justin Jones says the Navajo Nation government is having a heart attack. Crystalyne Curley says her years inside that government are what it will take to fix it.

After two days of debate, four amendments and repeated recesses, the 25th Navajo Nation Council approved a $585,074,258 fiscal 2027 comprehensive budget Sept. 18 by a 17-4 vote.

Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is making rising prices and the U.S. war with Iran central to his rematch with U.S. Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., as his campaign points to an internal poll showing Crane two points ahead.

A bill that would compensate the Navajo Nation and five New Mexico pueblos for lost interest on water-settlement funds moved closer to a House vote Sept. 15.

The Navajo Nation Council returned Thursday with a new emergency bill to approve a fiscal 2027 budget, two days after a delegate warned that thousands of Navajo Nation employees could face layoff notices as the government approached Oct. 1 without a spending plan.