Navajo Nation Council to Convene 2025 Fall Session Amid Budget Cuts and Calls for Accountability

On Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, the 25th Navajo Nation Council will open its 2025 fall session at 10 a.m. (MT) in the Navajo Nation ...

25th Navajo Nation Council Stands with Victim Advocates During Domestic Violence Awareness Month

In a united show of solidarity and advocacy, members of the 25th Navajo Nation Council joined families, survivors, and ...

Rifts grow between Navajo Council, president as calls emerge for Buu Nygren to resign

A court has blocked President Buu Nygren from installing an interim controller as calls emerge for the Navajo president to ...
KJZZ

With more no-confidence votes, there’s growing disappointment in Navajo Nation president

It’s been an interesting few weeks since Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren suddenly fired the tribe’s controller. The Navajo ...

Navajo elder lived in dirt-floor shack with no electricity for 77 years — now she’s finally getting a real house. How her dream came true in her 80s

F or most of her life, Victoria Benally has lived in a one-room shack with dirt floors, a leaking roof and walls patched with ...
KNAU Arizona Public Radio

The Navajo Nation president tried to fire controller. The council filed injunction to try and stop it

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren tried firing the tribe’s controller — a move later deemed unlawful by the Navajo Nation ...
KNAU Arizona Public Radio

Major flooding washes out roads, strands residents on Navajo Nation

Multiple chapters on the Navajo Nation were impacted by recent flooding from a tropical storm that caused dams to fail and ...

Navajo elder lived in dirt-floor shack for 77 years — now she’s getting a real house. How her dream came true in her 80s

Benally is one of 84 Navajo elders selected to receive housing through a $14-million American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) ...

‘Everybody get out’: Here’s what residents saw when rare tornadoes ripped through Navajo Nation

Preliminary reports for the pair of Utah tornadoes currently rank them as level EF2, the same as the tornado that tore through Salt Lake City in 1999.
Navajo-Hopi Observer

Navajo Tribal advocate Clara Pratte running for Arizona Corporation Commission

Clara Pratte, a Diné living in Flagstaff, is hoping to be the first tribal member to serve on the Arizona Corporation ...
KJZZ

U.S. rejects Navajo company's bid to buy 167 million tons of coal on public lands

The Department of Interior said in a Tuesday statement that last week’s $186,000 bid from the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. ...