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Nearly 1,000 personnel were fighting the Telegraph Fire which had burned 88,155 acres and was 76% contained as of Sunday morning.

Containment has continued to increase for the three wildfires burning across northern and eastern Arizona.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced a special session for the state Legislature focused on wildfire mitigation and prevention.Ducey says wildfires are the new top priority, so the ongoing state budget discussions are moved to the back burner. He says Arizona is in a good enough position financially to focus on other matters.

A site in Arizona sacred to tribal nations for 1,500 years is about to be destroyed by a copper mine that will form a 1,000-foot deep crater.

A site in Arizona sacred to tribal nations for 1,500 years is about to be destroyed by a copper mine that will form a 1,000-foot deep crater.

U.S. 60 was closed on Saturday night into Sunday morning between Superior and Top-of-The-World because of the fire.

U.S. 60 was closed on Saturday night into Sunday morning between Superior and Top-of-The-World because of the fire.

Center for Biological Diversity: TUCSON, Ariz.― Community events next week will rally support for the Save Oak Flat Act and send off members of Apache Stronghold as they start a cross-country road trip to Washington, D.C., to lobby for the bill’s passage. Stronghold leaders, including former San Carlos Apache Tribal Chairman Wendsler Nosie Sr., will attend a community event Sunday and an interfaith blessing Thursday evening.

For years, two Australian mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP, have sought to build a massive copper mine in Oak Flat, a region of the Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix that is considered sacred by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and other regional Native American tribes. The proposal, which was approved by Congress in 2014, involves swapping 2,422 acres of federally protected forest land in that area for over 5,000 acres of private land and constructing a roughly mile-wide crater to extract co...

ADVERTISEMENT USDA Says Apache Religious Rights Cant Block Copper Mine Law360 (May 18, 2021, 9:06 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has urged the Ninth Circuit to reject an Apache nonprofits bid to block a land swap for the Resolution Copper mine in Arizona, saying the groups practice of religion in the Oak Flat area doesnt trump the governments authority to make the move. Apache Stronghold told the circuit court in March that an Arizona federal judge wrongly rejected its bid for a...