The United States Environmental Protection Agency was performing an investigation of the Gold King Mine, a mine that was no longer in use and that neighbors Cement Creek, on Aug. 5, 2015. During the ...

On Aug. 7, 2015, crews from the Navajo Nation Irrigation Office in Shiprock rushed to close the main gates of two irrigation canals that carry water from the San Juan River toward the fields of ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. — A year after 3 million gallons of heavy metal sludge from the shuttered Gold King Mine gushed into a tributary of the Animas River, the Navajo Nation is suing the Environmental ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has rejected a plea from the Navajo Nation for assistance in dealing with the fallout from the August 5 Gold King Mine spill that sent more than three million ...

New exhibition shows how tribe dealt with blowout last August Navajo artist Venaya Yazzie wrote the Diné expression – Tó éí ííná – beside a photograph of a friend sullenly looking out on the tainted ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Two days after an abandoned mine blew in Colorado this past summer, Joe Ben Jr. was working a backhoe ...

WASHINGTON – Nearly six decades after they went to war, 29 Navajo Indians were honored Thursday for creating the uncrackable code used by the Marines during World War II's fiercest battles. President ...

The Navajo Nation Department of Justice is suing a tribal member over what authorities say is an illegal hemp farming operation in northwestern New Mexico. Navajo Attorney General Doreen McPaul said ...

A year after 3 million gallons of heavy metal sludge from the shuttered Gold King Mine gushed into a tributary of the Animas River, the Navajo Nation is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for ...

The Navajo Nation Department of Justice filed a 48-page civil complaint today in U.S. District Court of New Mexico. Defendants in the lawsuit include the EPA, Environmental Restoration LLC, Harrison ...