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Navajo Nation health officials continue to report rising COVID-19 cases on the reservation. The tribe Monday said 63 communities including Kayenta, Fort Defiance, Chinle and Ganado have uncontrolled spread of the virus. Over last weekend and Monday, officials confirmed nearly 230 new known infections and one additional death from COVID.

Navajo Nation Chief Justice JoAnn B. Jayne administered the oath to Jackson during a ceremony held at the Navajo Nation Department of Justice in Window Rock, Ariz. Jackson is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Chinle, Ariz. Since July 2021, he has served as the Acting Chief Prosecutor.

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Vernon L. Jackson, Sr. took the Oath of Office May 25, to serve as the new Navajo Nation Chief Prosecutor. Navajo Nation Chief Justice JoAnn B. Jayne administered the oath to Jackson during a ceremony held at the Navajo Nation Department of Justice in Window Rock, Arizona.

WINDOW ROCK - Diné musician, artist and educator Raven Chacon's long list of achievements and honors now includes the esteemed Pulitzer Prize for music, awarded on May 9 for his ensemble composition titled "Voiceless Mass." The composition is a rousing, discordant, and sometimes eerie invocation of the unheard –...

A Navajo Nation official told a Senate panel last week that the tribe’s police department lacks the resources to attract and retain officers, a problem that experts say is faced by tribal police departments across the country.

Skye Johnson, who is a senior cadet in the Pinon High School Army Junior ROTC program, has received the 2022 General U.S. Grant Camp No. 3 Junior ROTC scholarship. This fall, she will attend Richard Bland College, William & Mary, South Prince George, Virginia to study civil and environmental engineering, and economics.

Last week, Raven Chacon became the first Indigenous composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. The musician and educator grew up in Chinle on the Navajo Nation and was recognized for a piece called “Voiceless Mass.” He composed it specifically to be played on a pipe organ housed in a church in Milwaukee and premiered the work during Thanksgiving weekend last year. The music has an unsettling quality that, as Chacon says, reflects marginalized communities that served as the inspiration for the piece. In this installment of KNAU’s series Eats and Beats, he talks about “Voiceless Mass” and how it could serve as a touchstone for the under-heard and overlooked.

TSAILE, Ariz. — Last week, the Navajo Police Training Academy hosted a certificate ceremony in honor of the first group of women to participate and complete the Lioness Project, the academy’s first-ever women's empowerment program. On May 4, the Navajo Police Training Academy (NPTA) instructors distributed certificates of...

CH’ÍHOOTSOOÍ, DINÉTAH (Window Rock, Navajo Nation) – On Monday, May 16, the Chinle Chapter Government hosted an appreciation luncheon to recognize the Phase I and Phase II relief efforts of the Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund. “Chinle Chapter wanted to say thank you and show our appreciation to the staff from Navajo & [...] The post Chinle Chapter Recognizes Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund for Phase I and Phase II Relief Efforts appeared first on Sedona.Biz - The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer signed a tribal council resolution into law Monday to construct and operate a new 60-bed nursing home for Navajo veterans. The law appropriates $29 million for the construction and operation of the new nursing home, which will be called the...

Canyon Coker, a senior at Blue Ridge High School, Mykenzie Monroe and Sherman Kee, seniors of Ganado High School, and senior Jake Perry of Many Farms High School, are the top awardees in NPC Talon Gallery’s 36th Annual Juried High School Art Exhibit. These students captured Best of Show art scholarships in the exhibit which can be enjoyed virtually at the NPC Talon Gallery webpage https://www.npc.edu/talon-art-gallery/current-exhibition.

CHINLE, Ariz. — In a surprise school assembly April 25, Chinle Junior High School (CJHS) Principal Melissa Martin’s dedication to empowering Chinle students and colleagues alike was celebrated with a national Milken Educator Award — an honor that includes a $25,000 cash prize she can use however she wishes.

NAVAJO NATION (KRQE) – An educator in the Navajo Nation is the latest to be awarded the Milken Award. Melissa Martin is the principal at Chinle Junior High School. She was given her $25,000 award for helping her district to become the highest performing reservation district in the state as first a teacher, an academic coach, and now a first-year principal.

Gibson Benally, 53, of Chinle, Arizona, was found unresponsive during a security and welfare check at Coconino County Detention Center in Flagstaff.