Author: Krista Allen

The word was folate. Six letters, two syllables, a vitamin found in leafy greens. Not a particularly fearsome word, by the standards of a spelling bee that had already run 13 or 14 rounds. But when it came, Koen Harvey felt his heart start to race.

People who haul trash to the Tuba City Transfer Station may soon have to pay for the service, ending a long-standing arrangement in which the facility has been free to use.

Mechelle Morgan-Flowers and her husband Mike Flowers traveled to Jordan to see Petra. They were supposed to be in Egypt by now or cruising the Nile River. Instead, the two nurses from Tséhootsooí Medical Center have been living out of suitcases in an Amman hotel since their flight out was canceled on Feb. 27, one day before the U.S. launched military strikes against Iran.

S&P Global Ratings has raised the Navajo Nation’s issuer credit rating to A+ from A, citing improved debt metrics and ongoing sound financial performance, according to a report released Feb. 19.

Former Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim, a naat’áanii, poet and hataałii who spoke eloquently in Diné Bizaad, has died. He was 63.