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.

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.

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.

The accident happened between the Diné communities of Shonto Junction and Tseji along the U.S. 160 — just south of Kayenta. Police say flooding from heavy rain was partly to blame.

Published by Penguin Random House, Café Gozhóó executive chef Nephi Craig’s hardcover is anything but a cookbook.

These iconic cultural and natural sites are cherished by many — from hunters and anglers to tourists and tribal members. But they’re also see-sawing political battlegrounds, especially in Utah.

A panel of experts discussed the future of Navajo Coal Country on Aug. 3, 2026.

State environmental regulators have given the owner of a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon the green light for higher levels of arsenic in groundwater under the facility.

Colorado River Indian Tribes Chairwoman Amelia Flores met with leaders from around the world to discuss legal personhood for rivers.

Across tribal communities in northeastern Arizona, 1 in 3 homes does not have running water. But now, there’s a way to help fix that.