Shiprock News

A New Mexico Department of Transportation project to improve about three miles of U.S. Highway 64 between mile markers 24 and 27 east of Shiprock will shut down the outside lanes in each direction.

Volunteers from Shiprock, Hogback, Farmington and other communities will come together to cut down trees and remove stumps that are clogging the ditch.

In the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, N.M., the walls did talk to Dr. Edward J. Grandt.

The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety are looking for a 44-year-old Shiprock man in connection with the sexual assault of a minor on Saturday morning in Shiprock.

At the time, we issued a news release that said the NHA received very late notice and given the Resources and Development committee's track record on how they handled the publicized Pinon public hearing, we didn't even know if the meeting was going to be held - once again.

Ojo Amarillo Elementary fourth grader Miguel Prettyboy plays a song on the piano on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

Unlike times before, the officer was not there to tell them that they had lost a son in the war.

Martin Sheen was on hand at the Native Vision drama workshop in Shiprock, and took the stage with the participants in their series of skits titled "The Navajo News," performed Monday night at The Phil Thomas Performing Arts Center.

The Farmington Daily Times reports that the "Apocalypse Now" and "Wall Street" star participated Monday in a play called "Navajo News," a comedic series of sketches about the Navajo way of life.

Lionel Barlowe, a 30-year-old Farmington resident who lived on Gooding Lane, was pronounced dead at San Juan Regional Medical Center after he was ejected from his vehicle on the highway.

Actor Martin Sheen plays himself in a skit with Shiprock High School student Miracle Russell, a first time actress, in a comedy put on by Native Vision summer camp in Shiprock at the Phil L. Thomas Performing Arts Center on Monday.

Federal investigators and prosecutors are following through on more Indian country cases, and those from the Navajo Nation in particular, a new report says.

Actor Martin Sheen has an upcoming role in New Mexico - that of mentor at a drama camp for American Indian youth.

UP Ricketts Park, home to the Connie Mack World Series and many, many local games and events, is undergoing a renovation project.

Films you may have seen him in:: "Badlands" , "Apocalypse Now" , "Wall Street" , "Gettysburg" , "The Departed" , and "The Amazing Spider-Man" . He has also appeared in "The West Wing" and in the "Mass Effect" video game trilogy Directors he has worked with: Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, ... (more)

Joyce Rock, principal at Career Prep High School, looks at the artwork of her students in early May.

U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and John Billison, Director of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety announced that Tina Benally, 38, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty on May 22 to a federal assault charge.

NativeVision, a sports-based youth development initiative for American-Indian children, run by Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health in partnership with the NFL Players Association, will host its most ambitious annual "Sports and Lifeskills Camp" to date in Shiprock, NM, on the Navajo Nation, June 2-4, 2013.

Ojo Amarillo Elementary fourth grader Miguel Prettyboy plays a song on the piano on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

Ojo Amarillo Elementary fourth grader Miguel Prettyboy plays a song on the piano on Thursday, May 23, 2013.