A bill to provide another $100 million to clean up some of the 500 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Reservation continues to inch forward.

Last week the Navajo County Board of Supervisors renewed its contract with the state and federal governments to maintain a locked, surveilled and temperature-controlled room to store antidotes to assorted nerve gas agents.

You got your drug dealer wheels, your 45-year-old forklift, your beat-up work truck, and just about everything you need to write the next country music hit.

The Navajo County Board of Supervisors last week approved a $625,000 contract with the state to support a pre-trial diversion program for drug offenders in hopes of reducing the mounting number of lethal overdoses.

The federal Bureau of Reclamation this week announced a new water rationing agreement that will have far-reaching implications throughout the Southwest, including the White Mountains.

The Navajo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved three new storage facilities for RVs and other items.

Navajo County’s effort to save the historic Pinedale School building took another step forward last week with the award of a contract to Johnson Walzer Associates.

The Navajo County Board of Supervisors this week approved big increases in the fees it charges for almost everything when it comes to plans and construction, the first such increase since 2010.

With the health of one of their founders declining, friends and volunteers at Walking Down Ranch and Veterans Village in Pinetop-Lakeside are heartbroken yet determined to carry on her legacy.

The painstakingly developed capacity to thin the forest and save communities like Show Low and Payson from wildfire is dangling by a long, thin, costly thread, say the loggers, mill operators and biomass burners who hold the key to staving off a disaster.

The May 2023 meeting of Northeast Arizona Republican Women was held May 9 in Snowflake. David Clouse, sheriff of Navajo County, was the main speaker, and filled attendees in on matters of his history, the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office and his vision for the future.

PHOENIX — Wi-Bwa Grey brings a unique perspective to Arizona’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Task Force: that of a survivor.

WHITERIVER — A local high school student has been awarded a two-year basketball scholarship to Chandler-Gilbert Community College.

A homeless man threading through traffic, hoping for a handout; a jail brimming with prisoners; another funeral for a teen who shot himself; another fentanyl overdose.

After years of living with the threat of flooding destroying everything they’ve struggled to build, Winslow residents might soon have reason to breathe more easily.

Navajo County sheriff’s deputies Timothy Tubbs and Jesus Estrada on Tuesday took some time out from answering odd, dangerous, unpredictable emergency calls to take a brief bow in front of the Navajo County Board of Supervisors.

Navajo County will chip in $140,000 to help Pinetop-Lakeside build flood control works in a hilly, flood-prone neighborhood.

Navajo County’s Board of Supervisors this week approved new efforts to save lives in the face of a plague of opioid overdoses, which continue to affect about one new Navajo County resident every week.

The Navajo County Board of Supervisors last week awarded a $284,000 contract to design bike paths, sidewalks and other safety and traffic flow features along a 16-mile stretch of Highway 260 between Show Low and the Hon-Dah Resort.

The Navajo County Board of Supervisors accepted a $583,000 grant from the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s Border Strike Force for half a dozen patrol cars, decked out with emergency lighting, computers, upgraded bumpers, lock boxes and accommodation for drug-sniffing dogs.

Navajo County will continue to chip away at overgrown areas in the White Mountains with the help of a grant from the Arizona Department of Forestry.

“It really is a few caring people who change the world,” said Betsyann Wilson, executive director of Northland Pioneer College Friends and Family, after Arizona Gives Day on April 4. By midnight, the nonprofit alliance had received $33,358 from 84 donors during the 24-hour competitive fundra…

The Apache-Sitgreaves Forest has managed to round up and place 215 horses from the wild herd near Alpine and Springerville — but that’s barely keeping up with the accelerating population growth.

Navajo County’s economy in February clung to a low unemployment rate — about 4.8% — but struggled with falling retail sales.

The federal government charges grazing fees on public land that cover only a fraction of the cost of administering the program — much less mitigating the potential damage to riparian areas, according to a series of recent studies.

Drug companies and pharmacies have agreed to pay billions of dollars to state and local governments to reduce the soaring death toll from drug overdoses triggered by the reckless marketing of opioid painkillers dating back a decade.

It’s public health month in Navajo County, and there are a lot of events associated with it. So the Board of Supervisors last week combined every possible public health message into a single resolution, including cigarettes, decision making, alcoholism, Parkinson’s disease, autism, organ don…

You got your avocado and your ginger, and don’t forget your tofu, beets, cucumbers and lentils.

Long-overlooked DNA evidence led to the arrest of David Slade of Eager for entering the home of a 18-year-old girl, holding her against her will and sexually assaulting her. He escaped. The case went cold. But when a second DNA sample from a Utah rape went into the database, he was finally i…

Navajo County’s sheriff offered heartfelt praise for the county’s 911 dispatchers, who remain angels on the shoulders of every officer in the field.