Shiprock News

The cooking in San Juan County is expected to get fresher this month. Growers' markets across the region open soon with fresh local fruits and veggies that are physically and economically healthy.

A watched plant never grows. Neither do plants nourished with soapy water. That's what one Farmington resident discovered last week on his eight-acre Shiprock farm.

Information: 786-2190. DURANGO, COLO. 6 to 7 p.m. Fridays through Aug. 6 - Durango Scottish Dancers offers a 5-week Scottish Country Dance Class, upstairs in the Smiley Building, 1309 E. 3rd Ave.

The smell of fry bread sizzling in lard hovered over the Ye'ii-Bi-Chei grounds Monday in Shiprock as dozens of children and teens gathered to learn about sacred and everyday Navajo traditions.

People who attend singing zoologist Lucas Miller's performances Thursday and Friday practically are asking to get a song stuck in their heads.

A forum in Utah this week celebrated the life and mystery of a young artist who vanished in southern Utah in 1934.

The world-reknowned katsina and pottery collections of the Heard Museum will take a backseat today to graffiti-inspired t-shirts created by two young fashion designers from Tempe.

Some residents have come to accept Shiprock's uranium-contaminated soil, unregulated water sources and growing numbers of illegal dump sites littered with garbage and hazardous waste.

New Mexico middle school students are taking an active role in teaching their peers about preventing teen pregnancies.

Hundreds of social services clients in the Shiprock area are at risk for identity theft following a fire last month that damaged a building where personal records were stored.

In special remote places, erosion has uncovered the deep red dirt used to dye this unusual shirt.

State and union officials will hold a series of meetings around the state to reach out to American Indian and Hispanic residents about potential film careers.

Norman Silargo, 47, of Standing Rock, N.M., learned that first-hand May 23 when he and a fellow worker at the Crownpoint Mustang Store had to cope with four men who rushed into the store about 4:30 a.m. and proceeded to beat him up and steal merchandise.

With the advent of Memorial Day, Gallup's free Nightly Indian Dances at the McKinley County Courthouse Square are now drawing their typical mix of tourists and hometown regulars.

A Farmington canoeist who was found alive after going missing for more than two days spoke with Eyewitness News Monday about how he made it.

Members of the Navajo Nation plan to take to Washington, D.C., their grassroots campaign to compensate uranium mine workers' children affected by diseases and birth defects.

Two high-profile development projects in New Mexico that will benefit American Indian communities recently received a substantial economic boost as U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation and Travois New Markets teamed up to provide more than $12.7 million in combined New Markets Tax Credit financing to jump start the building of two ...

Army Sgt. Lee Duane Todacheene started every morning by greeting his wife, rolling out of bed and stepping out for a run.

A thin layer of red-brown dust covers the maze of roads in this small community off Navajo Route 36 southeast of Shiprock.

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer, and the Four Corners area is popular among weekend warriors.