Author: Donovan Quintero

A growing wildfire burning on the western side of Navajo Mountain is raising alarm among residents and officials, as shifting winds and rugged terrain complicate containment efforts.

Engines echoed through canyons and across desert highways as riders with the Navajo Hopi Honor Riders carried out the 22nd Annual Piestewa Fallen Heroes bike run. Over four days, the riders visited Gold Star families across the Navajo Nation, honoring fallen Native American service members and offering continued support to their relatives.

Former Speaker LoRenzo Bates and rancher Ernest Diswood, a retired Navajo Nation employee, called for more transparency, infrastructure investment, and stronger governance coordination during a Budget and Finance Committee meeting on Tuesday at the Niinahnízaad Chapter.

With his red garrison cap pulled snug above his weathered brow and his hands gently resting over silver-and-turquoise medallions, Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay sat beneath the cottonwood shadows at the Cove Chapter House, honoring the memory of a fallen comrade – the late John Kinsel Sr.