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 ...

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

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

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

Arizona tribal leaders reacted angrily after President Donald Trump said their opposition to a copper mine was un-American.

Opinion. With a deadline looming for the ownership transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Native American activists trying to protect Oak Flat have drawn support from religious advocates and stakeholders including ...

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.

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 ...