Author: Donovan Quintero

A flesh-eating parasite federal officials spent decades driving out has returned to the United States, and the Navajo Nation’s top agriculture official said the tribal agriculture department is reviewing a more than two-decade-old emergency plan to meet the threat.

A nonprofit veterans group hopes to turn a long-vacant Shiprock industrial building into a manufacturing site for affordable housing materials.

A 2026 Navajo Nation hardship assistance application portal was not open June 2, one day after a presidential executive order called for it to be open and operational.

For the people who carry it and protect it, the conversation about peyote does not begin in a hearing room. It begins at the kitchen table, over food, while someone quietly plans a ceremony, with no fixed date and nothing announced.

As temperatures climb on the Navajo Nation, ticks, fleas and mosquitoes are bringing a seasonal rise in illnesses that can turn serious if not recognized early.