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Nanise' Offers a Definitive Learning Guide on Navajo Plants

If you've blown through the gardening books on your reading list this winter or are looking for some inspiration this summer, local author and painter Barbara Bayless Lacy's book, Nanise': A Navajo Herbal: One Hundred Plants From the Navajo Reservation is a unique find. Nanise' means "vegetation" i ... More >>

Daylight Saving Time Sounds Like a Miserable Event for the Rest of the Country

Daylight Saving Time is miserable -- so we've heard.Because DST is stupid and we don't respect it, Arizona, like Hawaii, does not participate in this biannual clock-changing game.

Bootlegged Booze and a Meth Lead to Murder on the Navajo Reservation

A drive to a local bootlegger for a bottle of vodka turned into an allegedly meth-addled murder, according to Navajo Nation PD. The report states that Randly Begay, a member of the Navajo Nation, his girlfriend, and a friend, piled into a gray GMC Safari van Monday morning and drove near Tuba C ... More >>

Desecration: Unearthed Native Burial Site Causes Uproar

Heard Museum Explores the Legacy of Code Talkers

Carl Carlson of Navajo Reservation had Sex With Toddler, Feds Say; ID'd by Pictures of Penis and "Stumpy" Thumbs

Pictures taken last week of a Navajo man's penis and "stumpy" thumbs reportedly link him to the photographed sexual assault of a toddler. Carl Carlson of the Navajo Nation committed aggravated sexual assault of a child, sexual exploitation of a child and possessed child pornography, according to a ... More >>

New Food Truck: White Eyes Fresh Fry Bread

The business: White Eyes Fresh Fry Bread, not your average Indian fry bread, brought to you by Alice Roach and her husband, John. What you need to know: For the past six years, the Roaches have been serving their fry bread at special events, concerts, and fundraisers, but with the explosion of mobi ... More >>

FBI Helps Nab 10 in "Bootlegging" Bust; One Man Faced Prison Time for Selling a 12-Pack of Natty Ice

When the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office announced yesterday that a six-month "bootlegging" investigation ended with 10 arrests, we were thinking it was a trip back to prohibition, involving Tommy guns, fedoras, and the phrase "G-Men."Nah, we checked out the criminal complaints, and it took six month ... More >>

Solar Firm Matinee Energy is Full of Hot Air

KPHO Reporting on Mythical Creatures and UFOs Again

In less than a year, KPHO -- always "Telling it Like it is" -- has managed to run three stories about chupacabra sightings.Now the local news station is tackling bigger and badder mythical beasts, hooking up with the Navajo Nation Rangers to check out "investigative reports" of other creatures that ... More >>

Some Arizonans Freak Out Over Japan Reactor News, Others May Suffer Real Consequences of State's Past Radioactive Spills

Image: WikipediaAbout 100 million gallons of radioactive water that spilled down the Puerco River into Arizona in 1979 -- and people are worried about a bit of smoke from Japan?​Radiation from Japan shouldn't be your worry -- but maybe the sources of radiation here in Arizona should. Health st ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha, Soundstrike, Donate Food, Toys To Arizona Families

The Posada will feature food giveaways to migrant families and toys for the childrenFor those who have kvetched about the boycott of Arizona over SB 1070, here's an interesting riposte: Zack de la Rocha's musicians-boycott, Soundstrike, along with other groups such as Puente, the National Day Labore ... More >>

With Reservation

Navajo Nation hosts student photographers

With Reservation

Navajo Nation hosts student photographers

Matinee Energy Official Pushed Gold-Mine Scheme in 1980s, Now Behind $700 Million Solar Deal With Hyundai Heavy

  ​One of the principals behind a company that claims to be bringing a 175-megawatt solar plant to southern Arizona was accused in the 1980s of running a bogus gold-mining scheme. Christopher E. Pannos, one of his brothers, James, and two other people were among those charged by the ... More >>

Wife of Super-Dad Admits to Killing Husband Because "She Was Angry With Him;" Threatened to Kill Kids, Too

MCSO Larisa Garcia​We got some new details about the Phoenix woman who was arrested yesterday for the 2005 murder of her husband -- a veteran of both the Army and Navy and father of what police estimate to be about 30 children -- and she claims she murdered the man because "she w ... More >>

Navajo Nation Refuses to Turn Over Suspect in Murdered Nun Case

Sister Marguerite Bartz​The chief prosecutor in the case against a teen suspected of murdering a nun on the Navajo Indian Reservation last week is refusing to turn him over to federal authorities without an extradition request.Tribal police arrested the suspect, 18-year-old Reehahlio Carroll ... More >>

Where in Phoenix is Andrew Zimmern?

​Don't be surprised if you see a familiar, affable face and shiny chrome dome at a local restaurant sometime in the near future. Travel Channel star Andrew Zimmern was scheduled to land in Arizona with his crew this week, filming a new episode of Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World. He'll be hit ... More >>

Navajo President Placed on Leave Pending Investigation

www.wikipedia.com Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr.​Joe Shirley Jr., president of the Navajo Nation, was placed on administrative leave today, pending an investigation into ethical, civil, or criminal involvement with two companies with tribal contracts.During a special session of the ... More >>

Hot Links: Mesa High, Snowbowl, and Microsoft in Scottsdale

​As many as 20 players from the Mesa High football team might be suspended for violating team rules and miss Friday's game against Phoenix Maryvale. Mesa High principal Jim Souder and football coach Kelley Moore confirmed the suspensions, but neither would discuss what the infraction was...Ari ... More >>

Hot Links: Sexy Temples, Tomb Pimping, and Vatican Gone Wild

Phoenix police are keeping a close eye on the Phoenix Goddess Temple after receiving complaints from neighbors that the temple is really a brothel. The temple offers "cuddle parties" and a sex ed program on Fridays...The Phoenix Suns beat the Memphis Grizzlies 119-110 Monday night, marking their ... More >>

Mark Grey's cutting-edge classical work Enemy Slayer explores a Navajo creation story

Non-Native Son

Composer comes home to a place he’s never been before

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 18, 2007

Losing Momentum

Pictures aren't so moving

Mesa Muttonhead

The veterinary vulture asks, is it merely hoof-in-mouth disease or the ravings of a racist dumb-ass?

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, September 28, 2006

Farrakhan Follies

Could Louis Farrakhan's visit to the Navajo Nation have anything to do with tribe Prez Joe Shirley's tight reelection bid? Inquiring tweeters want to know

The Crying Game

Despite a celebrated history, Native American transgenders struggle in the modern world

Letters

Letters from the week of April 7, 2005

Send in the Clowns

Don't bother, they're here. After a decade of voter-mandated reform, the Arizona Legislature is as out of touch as ever

Letters

Letters from the week of June 10, 2004

Natural Selection

New exhibit hails the beauty of nature

Native Tongues

Windtalkers spins a World War II epic around Navajo codetalkers

Loft-Told Tale

Aerial photographer discusses his new book

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Hoss

An archival concert collection finds Waylon Jennings very much at home in the Valley

A Different School of Thought

The state's unabashed enthusiasm for charter schools stops at the borders of Indian reservations

Snow Clouds Over the San Francisco Peaks

Like some weather cycle, the battle between skiers and Native American religion returns to Arizona Snowbowl

Dialogue-Rolling

Letters

Letters

Dark Days on Black Mesa

The Hopi want one of the largest coal mines in North America to stop using their groundwater. If springs and wells continue to dry up, they say, their ancient culture may disappear, too.

All the Best

DEATH OF AN ECO WARRIOR

LEROY JACKSON TRANSFORMED HIMSELF FROM A PHOENIX STREET WINO INTO A CHARISMATIC NAVAJO ENVIRONMENTALIST. HIS FRIENDS THINK HE WAS MURDERED FOR HIS EFFORTS.

ARIZONA'S SHOOTING STAR

RYNELDI BECENTI IS A HERO TO THE NAVAJO NATION-----AND THE BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER AT ASU

FROZEN IN TIME

THE 20-YEAR WAR BETWEEN NAVAJOS AND HOPIS OVER HOPIS OVER HOMELANDS LEAVES THEM COLD

Republican Revenge

ROOTING FOR THE NEWS