Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration has now put the Oak Flat copper mine on the fast track for permit approval, a day after moving to push ...

A giant mining company is one step closer to building one of the nation's largest underground copper mines, an hour east of Phoenix, on land considered sacred to many Apaches. Oak Flat is in the Tonto ...

Public support for religious freedom is increasing, yet Native American religious rights cases face frequent denial in federal courts. Experts suggest the reluctance to protect Native religions stems ...

Opponents of a contentious land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and Resolution Copper have filed a new, amended lawsuit aimed at blocking a giant copper mine they say will desecrate lands ...

Carrying eagle feathers and chanting prayers, Western Apache runners hit the road on a roughly 80-mile journey this month to try to save their sacred land from being fast-tracked by President Donald ...

SUPERIOR — Carlos Nosie sunned himself in a camp chair as he watched a group of young runners converge on Oak Flat to pray for the site to be spared from obliteration by a copper mining operation. "I ...

Apache Stronghold and its allies allege that federal officials admitted a proposed copper mine would destroy Oak Flat.