Coal has long been the economic bedrock of the Navajo Nation, which owns deposits in Wyoming, Montana and New Mexico. Now, the tribe is asking the Trump administration to dramatically expand the life — and size — of an operational coal mine that could uproot the lives of some Navajo families. And their longtime homes — literally.

So instead of Santa hand-delivering stockings of coal along with his team of reindeer, it’s NTEC — or the Navajo Transitional Energy Company — with its diesel-powered trucks trekking across the sprawling 27,000-square-mile reservation.

Coal is perhaps most closely associated with Appalachian states like West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky — or Wyoming, the nation’s leading producer of the fossil fuel. But the coal-mining business was once thriving in northern Arizona as well, atop the Colorado Plateau.

CRIT leaders say a new plan to share the Colorado River is being rushed by the Bureau of Reclamation.

Last month, Native American elders were invited to participate in a workshop about the everchanging world of technology.

The Trump administration is looking to make changes to the federal rules overseeing grazing on public lands.

Bertram Tsavadawa is a member of the Hopi Tribe and offers tours of the reservation through his company, Ancient Pathways Tours; he’s been doing that for nearly 25 years.

Documents obtained by KJZZ News — including an autopsy and a toxicology report from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner — found that Passion Schurz had overdosed on fentanyl.

Following the Navajo Nation presidential primary last Tuesday, the top vote-getters have named their VP picks before the Monday deadline — just less than 100 days before they face off in the Nov. 3 general election.

President Donald Trump’s first administration built a 30-foot steel bollard wall across just over 450 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. Some 230 miles of it were in Arizona, but the roughly 60-mile long stretch of border inside the Tohono O’odham Nation was not included.

State and federal officials are trying to figure out why over 900 early ballots were not delivered to Navajo County voters ahead of the July 21 primary election.

This new 140-page, draft environment assessment is published just three months after the Bureau of Land Management gathered roughly 70,000 comments during a week-long “scoping” window in April.