Author: Donovan Quintero

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.

The future of Arizona’s water will depend not only on Colorado River negotiations and groundwater policy, but also on long-unresolved tribal water rights, three water experts told attendees at the 99th Annual Arizona Water Conference and Exhibition here on April 28.

The Navajo Election Administration has certified 123 candidates for the July 21 primary election, but three grievances and one disqualification have left more than a dozen Council delegate races unresolved until the Office of Hearings and Appeals issues rulings.