FELICIA FONSECA

Much of Southwest left parched after monsoon season

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Cities across the U.S. Southwest recorded their driest monsoon season on record this year, some with only a trace or no rain. The seasonal weather pattern that ...

Popular tourist sites on the Navajo Nation can reopen soon

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Popular tourist destinations on the Navajo Nation, including Canyon de Chelly, can welcome back tourists Monday under the tribe’s reopening plan. Much of the Na...

Arizona starts talks on addressing dwindling Colorado River

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Arizona is getting a jump-start on what will be a yearslong process to address a dwindling but key water source in the U.S. West. Several states and Mexico re...

Treasury withholding $679M in virus relief funds for tribes

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The U.S. Treasury Department is withholding $679 million in coronavirus relief funding for tribes while a challenge over its initial round of payments to tribal government...

First FBI poster in Navajo language seeks info on homicide

The FBI has issued its first poster in a Native American language, seeking information in Navajo on the death of an elderly man six years ago on the New Mexico portion of the vast Navajo Nat...

Navajo look to Arizona utilities to make up for coal losses

2 coal-powered plants already shuttered; two more by 2031

Window opens for tribes to seek licenses for internet access

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The Federal Communications Commission opened a window Monday for federally recognized tribes to apply for licenses that could help establish or expand internet access on t...

Endangered fish on upswing in Colorado River basin

Humpback chub populations stabilizing

Proposal seeks to modernize campgrounds at national parks

<span class="Drop cap"> </span><span class="Drop cap">Panel looking for ways to put businesses on public land </span>

Trump honors Native Americans, U.S. founders in same month

Historically, Natives have had the month to themselves

California tribe regains island it calls center of universe

Island contained massacre site, contaminated by shipyard

Wet winter doesn’t end climate change risk to Colorado River

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Snow swamped mountains across the U.S. West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and largely making wi...