FORT McDOWELL RESERVATION — Eddie Smith heads the first tribal fire department in Arizona that's part of a system that can provide extra equipment and personnel at the push of a button. That agreement ...

Three tribes reached an agreement in 2024 to secure their share of Colorado River flows. They still need congressional ...

PHOENIX — Five tribal nations in Arizona have been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Interior to help their communities prepare for the threats their land will face because of climate change ...

LAS VEGAS — The two largest tribal water rights holders in Arizona and the Central Arizona Water Conservation District accomplished something that has eluded states so far. They have pledged greater ...

PHOENIX — Several Native American tribes in Arizona are close to legalizing recreational marijuana, according to a legal expert. “They are moving cautiously,” Arizona professor Robert Williams said.

On a warm summer day in June, Johnny Lehi stands a few steps off U.S. Route 89 under the harsh, northern Arizona sun. He stares at a windswept expanse of red rocks, cliffs and clay that he hopes he'll ...

GUADALUPE, Arizona — Arizona Indigenous tribes are offering support to the San Carlos Apache Reservation after one of their young members was violently killed. On Sunday, members of the Pascua Yaqui ...

For as long as 55-year-old Hopi Chairman Tim Nuvangyaoma has been alive, high-voltage power lines have cut across Hopi lands in northeast Arizona, carrying vast amounts of power long distances ...

PHOENIX - If the amount of money people are willing to drop into slot machines is any indication, the Arizona economy is showing some slight signs of life. New figures from the Arizona Department of ...

Tohono O'odham leaders reiterated their opposition to extending a physical border wall on tribal lands in Arizona, arguing it is ineffective.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe’s religious practices and return them to their original ...

WASHINGTON — Seven states that rely on the Colorado River each got a cut of its water under a deal struck over a century ago — a deal that excluded the Hopi, the Navajo and other tribal nations. After ...