Shipments of uranium ore are expected to resume in February after the Navajo Nation reached a settlement with a mining company, clearing the way for trucks to transport the ore across the reservation.

Curley was first elected speaker two years ago as a freshman council member. She was the first woman elected to the post.

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA, provides a program that compensates individuals who become ill because of exposure to radiation from the United States’ development and testing of nuclear weapons.

A program to compensate uranium miners and people who lived downwind of nuclear bomb testing then developed certain cancers came to an end last summer, but Sens. Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich are trying to renew it.

WINDOW ROCK — Navajo Nation Speaker Crystalyne Curley ... Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, and Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, reintroduced the RECA reauthorization bill in the U.S. Senate.

Haaland, a citizen of Laguna Pueblo and the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary under President Joe Biden, could be the first Native American woman to serve as governor of any state

Despite a pause on its effect, a wide range of New Mexico leaders are still reacting to the Trump administration’s directive that would have paused federal grants and loans saying it rattled the funding normalcy that so many agencies rely on.

Nine congressional Democrats sent a letter to the president urging him to direct ICE agents to "stop harassing" Native Americans.

Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo and the nation’s first Native American ... Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich ruled himself out of the governor’s race last week, and no Republican ...

Newly filed federal records show officers and deputies with the Albuquerque Police Department, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office and New Mexico State Police worked with an attorney and his private investigator in a "DWI enterprise" to get drunken driving cases dismissed in exchange for money and other favors,

“Deb Haaland is of and for New Mexico. She’s a proven leader; she’s created New Mexico jobs, brings people together, and is getting ready to run to be New Mexico’s next governor. She and her team will be focused on listening and solutions that fit the needs of our communities," Forrester said.

Tuesday turned into a day of chaos for thousands of New Mexicans and its elected officials as they attempted to grasp if money for local, regional and state programs and services was frozen after President Trump’s administration ordered a pause of federal grants and loans.