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New data shows the Bureau of Indian Education schools do not teach kids fast enough to close an achievement gap that starts in early childhood.

In its cruel aftermath, the disease that brought this barrage of death alters rituals of the grieving process. Families say goodbye by video, or in a brief moment at a hospital bed while dressed in personal protective equipment. Funerals are small and distanced. Most people who contract COVID-19 will survive, and age and specific underlying conditions play a role in who is most likely to die. But for each death, there's a web of family and friends left mourning. Sharing these losses is difficult for many of the bereaved; it can be therapeutic, though — a way to say goodbye, to honor and...

If Arizona wants a secure water future, it must do more to settle tribal water claims Gary Gold, opinion contributor Water policy can be a zero-sum game. When one water user gains, the benefits are equally balanced by losses that leave others out to dry. The exceptions to this rule, while few and far between, are where Arizona leaders need to look for solutions. Tribal settlements demonstrate that water policy does not need to be zero sum. These settlements offer mutual and compatible benefits for tribal communities, cities, farmers, developers, conservationists and industria...

3 massive coal stacks that long towered over Lake Powell demolished as crowds watched Ryan Randazzo, Arizona Republic Replay Video Corrections & Clarifications: The article was updated to correct the name of Howard Dennis. Three massive emissions stacks at the Navajo Generating Station coal-fired power plant near Page came down Friday with thundering detonations that erased them from the skyline they dominated for decades. The demolition of the largest coal burner in the West is a milestone for environmentalists who fought, and continue to fight, to shift the country to ren...

True West Magazine Franciscan Brother Simeon Schwemberger began his passion for photography of the Four Corners region after his discovery of a surplus large-format 5×7 glass-plate camera at the St. Michaels Mission near Window Rock, Arizona, in 1901. His poignant 1908 photo of a public Jemez Pueblo ceremony in New Mexico reflects his sensitivity for the Native peoples he photographed. – Courtesy Library of Congress –   For millions of would-be travelers to the American West, 2020 will be remembered as the year that might have been. For those who did venture out West this past year, spo...