A Navajo Nation judge denied President Buu Nygren’s request to block the Budget and Finance Committee’s housing contract investigation, allowing subpoena hearings tied to housing contracts and related matters to continue.
The Navajo Nation holds roughly $10 billion in investments Controller Sean McCabe told a budget public hearing yet left about $58 million unspent last fiscal year out of roughly $313 million budgeted for its three branches.
President Buu Van Nygren. Chief Legal Counsel Bidtah Becker. Alfreida Nez. Candice Yazzie. Alray Nelson. Five subpoenas. Five no-shows. More names are coming.
The unofficial results from Tuesday’s Navajo Nation General Election are as follows. To see the full list, visit navajotimes.com
Team members at Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort recently collected 736 pounds of food to distribute to two northern Arizona organizations serving people facing food insecurity.
Rough Rock, Arizona, cowboy Ralph Gray III finally broke the ice for the 30-plus bull riders at Friday night’s Laughter’s Memorial Bull Riding event.
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Strong winds bent canopies and swept across Johnson Field at the University of New Mexico on Sunday, but they did little to slow the drums, dancers and families gathered for the 67th Annual Nizhoni Days Powwow.
Tséhootsooí Medical Center’s emergency department and pharmacy are seeing longer wait times because of separate equipment problems, according to notices issued June 3 and June 6.
Derrick Watchman, a longtime finance and economic development executive, has been selected as chairman of Native American Bank’s board of directors, succeeding Kent Paul after 22 years in the post.
Shayla Chatto, a Diné scholar whose work centers on state-mandated PK-20 Native and Indigenous education, will join the University of New Mexico’s Department of Native American Studies as a 2026-27 postdoctoral fellow.
Twenty new sculptures have been installed in downtown Farmington as part of the city’s 2026-27 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, a public art program now in its fourth year.
Silversmith Mary Jane Garcia and fashion designer Virginia Yazzie Ballenger have been named grand marshals of the 2026 Eastern Navajo Fair Parade.
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