Business

Unless you’re completely oblivious, you’ve noticed the red “Speedway” signs popping up all over the rez above what used to be Giant gas and convenience stores.

In 1996, Victoria Largo was hustling to sell baked goods and ice-cream in her home community of Crownpoint. Amid the hustle and bustle, her daughter came up with the idea of selling pizza.

Using light from a kerosene or oil lamp late at night, Elizabeth B. Begay makes intricate dreamcatcher earrings and other handmade jewelry.

At one of the first houses the Light Up Navajo crews connected to power in mid-May, the customer was so excited she bought a cake for them.

A roomful of Greater Aneth Oil Field employees, contractors and vendors waited anxiously to receive an update from Elk Petroleum Inc. officials about its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing made on May 22.