Author: Donovan Quintero

The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority on June 3 brought its proposal to raise water and wastewater rates here, where residents pressed the utility to show its finances, cut its own costs and explain why customers should pay more when many families already struggle with utility bills.

A flesh-eating parasite federal officials spent decades driving out has returned to the United States, and the Navajo Nation’s top agriculture official said the tribal agriculture department is reviewing a more than two-decade-old emergency plan to meet the threat.

A nonprofit veterans group hopes to turn a long-vacant Shiprock industrial building into a manufacturing site for affordable housing materials.

A 2026 Navajo Nation hardship assistance application portal was not open June 2, one day after a presidential executive order called for it to be open and operational.

For the people who carry it and protect it, the conversation about peyote does not begin in a hearing room. It begins at the kitchen table, over food, while someone quietly plans a ceremony, with no fixed date and nothing announced.