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The annual convocation of the Navajoland Area Mission adopted overwhelmingly an amended resolution to defer the election of an interim bishop until September.

From "Matthew Davies" Date Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:07:47 -0400 >Episcopal News Service >June 14, 2009 NAVAJOLAND: Convocation delegates approve plan for September episcopal election >By Pat McCaughan [Episcopal News Service] Delegates to the 33rd annual Convocation of the Episcopal Church in Navajoland June 12-14 overwhelmingly approved creation of a ...

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has nominated the Rev. Canon David E. Bailey, canon to the ordinary and deployment officer for the Diocese of Utah, to be the next Bishop of Navajoland.

The projects are part of a $500 million infusion into the resource-strapped IHS announced Friday by the service's new director, former University of Arizona medical school professor Yvette Roubideaux, in a telephone press conference from Washington, D.C. "I'm really grateful to President Obama for allocating these critical resources to Indian ...

The Arizona Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division, conducts a roadblock April 29 at the port of entry in Tse Bonito, N.M. Officials were stopping diesel-powered vehicles and checking for illegal fuel.

The community of Ganado, Ariz., was challenged on Thursday to consider how its children should be cared for and to consider ways residents can support each other in preventing child abuse.

One Naperville couple found McDonalds was almost deatly. Sitting in a carpark in eastern Arizona, beneath a giant set of iconic golden arches outside a McDonald's restaurant, in their Chevy Trailblazer, a couple were crushed inside their vehicle.

Navajo acting police chief Steven Nelson said the 'winds were pretty bad'' Wednesday, when a McDonalds restaurant sign blew off the pole it was attached and smashed into the vehicle parked underneath it.

Navajo acting police chief Steven Nelson said the 'winds were pretty bad'' Wednesday, when a McDonalds restaurant sign blew off the pole it was attached and smashed into the vehicle parked underneath it.

High winds on Wednesday toppled the McDonald's restaurant's golden arch onto a sports utility vehicle while a couple was sitting inside at the restaurant's Window Rock parking lot.

Mark Charles would like Native Americans to start thinking outside the box about themselves and their political voice _ or lack of voice _ in the United States.

Outreach efforts by the Translational Genomics Research Institute extend to the far corners of Arizona.

27 when they talked to Ryan Ronald Blackgoat, 19. The case began about 10:25 p.m. when a caller to the police department reported that a male jumped out of a vehicle and took off running.

4. The victim was identified as Albert Jim, 33. Police said he got into a domestic dispute with his wife, Amanda Benally Jim, 31,A and when she decided to leave and got in her car, her husband jumped on the ...

Associate Supreme Court Justice Eleanor Shirley on Monday gives the oath of office to Lawrence T. Morgan after he was re-elected to a fourth term as speaker of the Navajo Nation Council during the opening day ...

Marcella Tulley helps education curator Char Kruger make blue corn mush during a demonstration at the Navajo Nation Museum on Saturday in Window Rock.

The speaker of the Navajo Nation Council is seeking a fourth term to the office.

Police said Monday that the search began Dec. 12 when three officers went to Bennett's residence in Inscription House, Ariz., to arrest him on the warrant.