Author: Donovan Quintero

U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego told military veterans here that the federal government is failing Navajo veterans, warning that a Department of Veterans Affairs restructuring and a Republican-backed bill threaten to cut benefits and pull doctors away from the rural communities that need them most.

After nearly six years representing one of Arizona’s most rural and heavily Native legislative districts, state Sen. Theresa Hatathlie is not seeking another term.

Inside the Kayenta Chapter House, a France-based company spent more than four hours laying out its vision for a pumped-storage hydropower project on Black Mesa, while community members pushed back in English and Navajo with charts, family histories and warnings about water that no longer runs.

The children of the late Sam Billiman grew up in Sawmill drinking water that, on bright days, carried what looked like a film of oil on its surface.