Author: Donovan Quintero

Gene Shepherd has worked at the Padres Mesa Demonstration Ranch since it opened in 2008. He helped build its fences, lay its water lines and shape the operation that later helped inspire the Navajo Beef brand.

Ina Noggle remembers the ambulances.

Sixteen years after Del Lynn Peshlakai, 19, and DeShauna Peshlakai, 17, were killed by a drunk driver in Santa Fe, their parents are still turning that loss into a public fight against impaired driving.

Navajo Nation leaders used Wednesday’s Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing on S. 953, the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025, to press lawmakers to ratify and fund a major settlement they said would help bring water to families who still haul it by hand.