Author: Donovan Quintero

Beginning Monday, motorists from the Iyanbito and Fort Wingate areas who use New Mexico State Road 118 to travel between Church Rock and Gallup will be detoured onto Interstate 40 for several months while crews replace an aging bridge east of N.M. 566.

A Navajo Code Talkers Museum could be built in Farmington instead of Tse Bonito, the site where Navajo Code Talkers like Keith Little and Samuel Sandoval envisioned it would become the home of their legacy.

Rep. Mae Peshlakai and former state Sen. Jamescita Peshlakai are seeking seats in the Arizona Legislature in Legislative District 6, running as a mother and daughter team in what they describe as a first of its kind joint bid. Mae is running for re-election to the Arizona House, while Jamescita is seeking the Arizona State Senate seat. They will be joined on the ticket by Mae’s sister, Angela Maloney, who is running for the House.

More than three decades after the 1989 civil disturbance in the Navajo Nation capital exposed deep fractures in tribal governance, a new debate over government reform has revived a familiar question: where does power originate, and how should it be structured to avoid instability?