Author: Donovan Quintero

The Navajo Board of Election Supervisors has certified the results of the July 21 primary, setting up a Nov. 3 general election between Justin Jones and Crystalyne Curley for Navajo Nation president.

A five-station dialysis center at Sage Memorial Hospital is scheduled to open in January after the hospital received a $3 million state grant to finish space left incomplete when construction money was redirected to two traffic signals.

The Navajo Nation Council ordered Executive Branch officials Monday to remove eligibility requirements stricter than federal rules from a $55 million homeowner assistance program as a Sept. 30 deadline approaches for the Nation to obligate remaining funds.

Nevada’s decision to take the federal government to court over the Colorado River’s new operating rules could stall the Navajo Nation’s push to get its Arizona water rights settlement through Congress before the year ends, a Navajo Nation water rights attorney said this week.

The U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday finalized rules for operating Lake Powell and Lake Mead in 2027 and 2028, cutting 1.25 million acre-feet a year from Arizona, California and Nevada while requiring no mandatory reductions from the four Upper Basin states.