Author: Donovan Quintero

Candidates for Navajo Nation president and vice president clashed over experience, women in leadership, overdue audits and the use of the Navajo language during a debate Friday evening at Navajo Technical University.

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.