Author: Donovan Quintero

The Gallup City Council has approved a proposed 10-year mutual aid agreement with the Navajo Nation Police Department that would allow officers from both agencies to cross jurisdictional lines during major disasters and emergencies.

Eighty-one years after his service on Iwo Jima and 60 years after his death, Navajo Code Talker Jimmie Preston’s name now marks the U.S. Highway 89 bridge over the Little Colorado River in Cameron.

Julia Konhiser told Apache County supervisors she lives within a mile of Chieftain Mobil in Chambers, Arizona, where owner Sanjay Patel is seeking to move a liquor license from Witch Well to his store.

Gov. Katie Hobbs on May 5 vetoed all 17 bills that would have made up Arizona’s 2026-27 state budget, sending the $17.9 billion package back to the Republican-led Legislature and leaving tribes waiting on funding tied to water rights, health care, food aid, schools and wildfire response.

As international health officials monitor a deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to an Antarctic cruise ship, a doctor at Tséhootsooí Medical Center says the virus involved is different from the hantavirus long known on the Navajo Nation and in the Four Corners region.