President Trump threw his support this week behind a massive project to turn an Apache sacred site outside Phoenix into one ...

A U.S. appeals court has put the brakes on the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a company that plans to mine one ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction on Monday, temporarily blocking the Trump administration ...

Hours before the federal government was expected to transfer land in eastern Arizona to a mining company, a federal appeals ...

Hours before a disputed land swap was to take effect, an appeals court halted the process, giving copper mine opponents more ...

A federal judge conceded that a planned copper mine will destroy a site sacred to the Apache people, but refused to stop a ...

The Western Apache and a coalition of environmental groups have fought for years against the Resolution Copper mine, which would become one of the country’s largest at the cost of a site revered by ...

Oak Flat has spiritual significance to many Native peoples and there are spots “where even a casual observer can experience a sense of the divine,” said John R. Welch, professor of archaeology ...

Oak Flat is a cactus-covered, sun-baked landscape of pinnacled rock formations and Native American archaeological and burial sites, home to a plethora of plants and animals.

OAK FLAT, Ariz. (AP) — Azee Romero climbed barefoot on the wrinkled trunk of the massive Emory oak tree at the center of the Oak Flat Campground. The 5-year-old in his black dinosaur t-shirt ...

OAK FLAT, Ariz. (AP/RNS) — A religiously diverse coalition — Christian, Muslim, Sikh and other Native American groups — has backed the Apache Stronghold by filing amicus briefs.