Back in December, a severe spill of crude oil on the Navajo Nation contaminated the land. Remediation efforts are still underway, but this accident has a silver lining, one that may facilitate faster emergency responses on the largest reservation in the U.S.
April 25, 2024
Native American tribes have filed motions to weigh in on the federal court battles over the new national monument near Grand Canyon National Park.
April 25, 2024
Luis Avila has been a community organizer in the Valley since the days of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration raids. He’s fought for the DREAM Act and campaigned for Barack Obama here. He spoke more to The Show for Staying Power.
April 25, 2024
Randolph was established in 1925 and is considered Arizona’s longest-surviving Black community that’s associated with the Great Migration of the mid-20th century — when some 6 million African Americans moved from the South to other parts of the country.
April 25, 2024
The initiative is part of a nationwide effort to bring broadband internet to U.S. communities — especially rural and Indigenous communities where connectivity is harder to come by.
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April 24, 2024
USCIS officials say the new centers are opening in Ankara, Turkey, and Doha, Qatar. And they’re meant to increase capacity for refugee processing and facilitate safe, lawful and orderly migration.
April 23, 2024
U.S. citizens with undocumented relatives are renewing their calls to the Biden administration to protect their families from deportation through a special immigration status called parole.
April 23, 2024
Measures have been introduced, then stalled, for months as lawmakers argue over where to focus funding and resources at the border.
April 23, 2024
Conservation groups have asked the U.S. Forest Service to lay out how it will manage mined uranium as it’s transported across northern Arizona. KJZZ posed those concerns to Energy Fuels, the company that owns the Pinyon Plain Mine just south of the Grand Canyon.
April 23, 2024
George Alan Kelly, 75, was charged with second-degree murder in the Jan. 30, 2023, shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, 48, who lived just south of the border in Nogales, Mexico.
April 22, 2024
More than 250 volunteers from 41 utilities across 16 states are expected to travel between now and July to the largest reservation in the U.S. to donate their time and talents during the fourth annual Light Up Navajo mutual aid project.
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April 22, 2024
Jurors deliberating a case that accuses an Arizona rancher of fatally shooting a Mexican man near the border last year say they’re at an impasse. Prosecutors say on Jan. 30, 2023, 75-year-old Nogales resident George Alan Kelly shot and killed Gabriel Cuen Buitimea as he crossed Kelly’s ranch with other migrants.
April 20, 2024
The Nickelodeon show "The Casagrandes" has been off the air for the couple of years, but the family is now back on-screen — this time in movie form.
April 19, 2024
A case against an Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican migrant last year near Nogales has gone to the jury for deliberation.
April 18, 2024
The program is called Lighthouse, and it’s run by the Pima County Industrial Development Authority. It’s the latest project of an initiative launched in 2012 to address housing affordability in southern Arizona.
April 17, 2024
The president of the Navajo Nation said he wants the tribal government to pass uranium transportation regulations to restrict uranium from being transported across tribal lands.
April 17, 2024
In the last few years, we’ve seen more attention paid to a devastating — and evasive — issue for Indigenous communities: missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit and transgender people. Reporter Chelsea Curtis is working to change it.
April 17, 2024
Some southern Arizona groups are also recommending people act now to get medication abortion pills — which use a combination of drugs to incite an abortion and can be done at home.
April 17, 2024
Before there was a United States Border Patrol, the customs service was the first line of defense along the U.S.-Mexico border. Their headquarters — now designated by a historical marker — still stands.
April 16, 2024
The resolution says that law infringes on the reproductive rights and autonomy of Arizona residents. It calls on county attorneys, law enforcement agencies and medical professionals statewide to allow residents to pursue healthcare — including abortions.
April 16, 2024
President Joe Biden issued a memo in February that gave some Palestinians already in the U.S. what’s called Deferred Enforced Departure. It’s a special, temporary immigration status that shields recipients from deportation because of violence or other issues they’d face going back home.
April 15, 2024
