Every Thursday morning before sunrise, Marsha Carl is already on the road, beginning a route she has driven for years and a ritual she has kept even longer. By the time she reaches Monument Valley, the light is just beginning to change, and she drives up to The View Hotel to take a photograph she has taken in some form every week using her smartphone.
A 67-year-old Kayenta man has been charged in Navajo Nation court in connection with a vehicle incident that occurred just before the start of the Kayenta Christmas Light Parade and resulted in the death of a 3-year-old child, according to the Navajo Nation Office of the Prosecutor.
Covering a year is rarely about identifying a single moment that explains everything. More often, it is about watching patterns form slowly, sometimes quietly, across months of reporting. Looking back at 2025, what stands out most is not one headline or one decision, but the way issues accumulated, intersected and revealed themselves over time.
The unofficial results from Tuesday’s Navajo Nation General Election are as follows. To see the full list, visit navajotimes.com
Ancient Wayves River & Hiking Adventures, a Diné-owned tour company based near Bears Ears National Monument, has been named the top tourism experience in the United States by JRNY Magazine’s 2025 America Awards.
David Clark, a lifelong advocate for peyote as religious sacrament, and former president of the Native American Church of Navajoland, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
It’s been a busy year for the sports department at the Navajo Times. We’ve covered everything from the local sports scene to a few regional and national sporting events such as the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and the 2025 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl as part of our coverage
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At just seven years old, Kacee Yazzie has become a familiar name at song and dance events across the Navajo Nation. With turquoise gleaming and his steps locked to the drum, the second grader from Tó Łigaaí, New Mexico, looks at ease each time he enters the arena.
Construction is underway on staff housing for the Echo Cliffs Health Center, with a groundbreaking on Aug. 27 along Coppermine Road just south of the clinic site.
Edison Eskeets, a 66-year-old runner from Springstead, New Mexico, has spent decades preparing for a journey that mirrors one of the most painful chapters in Diné history. Through distance running, ceremony and storytelling, Eskeets retraced the 330-mile route of the Long Walk to honor those who endured the forced march and those who never returned home.
Students from across Arizona and New Mexico gathered in Kayenta on Dec. 13 for the community’s first robotics competition, a milestone that brought competitive STEM programming to the Navajo Nation and placed local students on the same field as teams from across the region.
For a moment, the gray sky above Dinétah opened, and sunlight spilled through, casting the scene in soft gold. Director Travis Holt Hamilton stood behind the monitor, watching as the lead actor, “Secody,” a 70-year-old veteran learning to forgive his father, knelt in prayer. The wind lifted the trees, the light intensified and then it was gone.
Throughout 2025, the Navajo Times’ Community section documented daily life across the Navajo Nation, from chapter houses and classrooms to fairs, ceremonies, kitchens and public gatherings. Rather than centering on a single defining moment, the coverage followed how communities moved through the year, responding to challenge, marking milestones and carrying forward long-standing practices. Taken together, the stories form a record of presence, responsibility and continuity shaped by the people at the center of them
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