2023 Environment Year in Review: While fire gives Flag a break, a new monument is created
The year 2023 was a doozy for environmental and conservation news across northern Arizona.
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The year 2023 was a doozy for environmental and conservation news across northern Arizona.
Eight years ago, the Navajo Nation opened its first casino in Church Rock Chapter, near Gallup, New Mexico. On Saturday, November 19, Fire Rock Navajo Casino turns eight.
A group of concerned community members of Leupp, Arizona, invite you and directors from the Division of Community Development, Navajo Nation Elections Administration and Navajo Nation Ethics and Rules Office to a community meeting on July 08, 2023, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (location will be announced) to discuss a paramount of issues related to the Local Government Act of 1988 that is severely impacting the Leupp community and chapter. The community request clarification on the intent, changes and details of LGA.
Up until last month, tourists flocked to the churning mud waters of Grand Falls, a popular landmark a little off the grid in northern Arizona. Locals from the Navajo Nation shut it down to nontribal members. Now they’re trying to keep it closed. On a recent and chilly Sunday morning, a group of Navajo tribal members gathered just outside a barricade of rocks and boards along a
A spectacular chocolate-brown waterfall on the Navajo Nation has become a social media star. Grand Falls, just east of Flagstaff, has been inundated with tourists and influencers as Arizona’s rivers and streams surge with rain and spring snowmelt. Grand Falls’ cascade of muddy water makes for great photo ops and selfies. But local Diné residents say it’s not meant to be a tourist destination. It’s a sacred site. And that’s why a community coalition closed it to visitors this spring. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports on an effort to bring healing to a place that has been overused and ...