High pressure will bring hot daytime temperatures to the Navajo Nation and the wider Four Corners region this week, with an extreme heat warning posted for the Grand Canyon and rising thunderstorm chances bringing both relief and new fire hazards by midweek, according to the National Weather Service offices in Flagstaff and Albuquerque.
A tornado announces itself. A flood, an earthquake, a wildfire, each leaves a wound a person can point to. Drought does none of that. It arrives without a sound and takes its time, and on the Navajo Nation it has been taking its time for the better part of 25 years.
The unchanging scathing data on Native homeland economy, unemployment, education, roads, housing and health conditions reveal the usual widespread “underdevelopment” of our homelands despite years of massive technical, material and fiscal intervention.
Alexander Chambers says the Navajo Nation does not need more authority to build its economy. It needs a president who can move faster.
Team members at Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort recently collected 736 pounds of food to distribute to two northern Arizona organizations serving people facing food insecurity.
The Rising Stars Camp has endured some challenges the past few years.
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Strong winds bent canopies and swept across Johnson Field at the University of New Mexico on Sunday, but they did little to slow the drums, dancers and families gathered for the 67th Annual Nizhoni Days Powwow.
Tséhootsooí Medical Center’s emergency department and pharmacy are seeing longer wait times because of separate equipment problems, according to notices issued June 3 and June 6.
Derrick Watchman, a longtime finance and economic development executive, has been selected as chairman of Native American Bank’s board of directors, succeeding Kent Paul after 22 years in the post.
Three Saint Michael Indian School graduates received Eve’s Fund tribute scholarships during the school’s May 30 commencement, where 28 students graduated.
Twenty new sculptures have been installed in downtown Farmington as part of the city’s 2026-27 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, a public art program now in its fourth year.
Drivers on State Route 98 east of Page will encounter intermittent one-lane traffic as the Arizona Department of Transportation starts pavement repair between mileposts 311 and 331.
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow