Religious rights advocates and First Amendment experts say the ability of Native peoples to exercise religious rights is at ...

PHOENIX (CN) — For the third time in five years, Western Apaches appeared before the Ninth Circuit to prevent the ...

Environmental activists in Arizona have taken a step forward in their efforts to stop the Oak Flat land transfer to ...

Apache Stronghold leader Wendsler Nosie was away from his trailer at the Oak Flat encampment. He fears the worst had he been ...

A U.S. appeals court has temporarily blocked the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America.

A federal judge has rejected an attempt by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and a coalition of environmentalists to stop a contested land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and Resolution Copper. In ...

A federal appeals court temporarily halted a land exchange that would allow construction of a copper mine on a site held sacred by Arizona tribes, acting just hours before the swap could have been ...

A U.S. appeals court has temporarily blocked the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America.