Sanostee News

A drunken driver, whose passenger fell off a 75- to 100-foot cliff and died after fleeing the scene of a crash, was being held Monday in the San Juan County Detention Facility, authorities said.

Authorities say a man fleeing the scene of a head-on crash on a San Juan County road died when he ran off a cliff.

Sixteen months after their brother, uncle and friend disappeared from the small community of Sanostee, family members still are looking for Wilson Happy.

The proposal must now be signed by President Joe Shirley Jr., who has never before had to force a grazing permit holder to relinquish her rights.

The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority says the water is safe to drink in Sanostee.

A fire has destroyed about 20 units at Castle Apartments At 15th Street and Central Avenue Tuesday night.

The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority says the area's water is safe to drink. The utility sent a notice Tuesday to the more than 500 residents on the water system, telling them chemical contamination had been flushed out.

More than 500 Sanostee residents on Friday remained on warning not to drink tap water while the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority and the Indian Health Service continue to flush remnants of natural gas byproducts first found in the water last week, officials said.

The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority was testing water after reports of an unidentified oily residue in residential drinking water in the small Navajo community of Sanostee in northwestern New Mexico.