The San Carlos Apache Tribe and a group of environmentalists will ask a judge to halt a land exchange that would allow construction of a huge copper mine east of Phoenix. The land deal could take ...

Another tribe in Arizona has secured its water supply, this time after a 50-year-long struggle. The Yavapai-Apache Nation approved its water rights settlement June 26, which will bring new water ...

Land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat and holding great spiritual value to the Western Apache Indians is also on the world’s third-largest deposit of copper ore and at the center of court battles.

WASHINGTON (AP/AZFamily) --The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred. The ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily)—The clock is now ticking for an Arizona federal judge to rule on a controversial land swap that could happen as early as mid-June. Native tribes argue that transferring land in the ...

OAK FLAT, Ariz. — On a recent morning about an hour outside Phoenix, the pounding of tribal drums reverberated across the desert from a stand of oaks in the Tonto National Forest, where nearly 20 men ...

In this Arizona roadtrip we explore the Apache Trail, which just opened. It begins down by Apache Junction, then head past Canyon Lake, Apache Lake and Roosevelt Lake. The Apache Trail has a lot of ...