Author: Donovan Quintero

Sonlatsa Jim walked into the Cibola County courthouse Monday carrying a feeling she said she has learned to expect after 16 years of postponements: “anxiety.”

A Council discussion over a Department of Justice quarterly report Monday night, Jan. 26, 2026, turned into a pointed debate over prosecution gaps, delayed legal reviews and whether unconfirmed DOJ leaders should be answering questions on the Council floor, set against repeated leadership shakeups in the Nation’s top legal offices.

Farmington’s city-owned electric utility has completed installation of two new natural gas power generation engines at its Bluffview Power Plant as the region adjusts after the San Juan Generating Station, a coal-fired plant near Farmington, shut down in 2022.

Derrick Watchman told a House subcommittee that federal economic development programs in Indian Country need legislative and administrative changes to work more smoothly for tribes and Native entrepreneurs.

A bid by a convenience store and gas station near the Navajo Nation border to sell packaged liquor is drawing resistance from residents and chapter officials who say the proposal could revive alcohol-fueled deaths, family trauma and public safety strain that communities along U.S. 191 and Interstate 40 have spent years trying to recover from.