SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah ballot proposition that has reignited a fierce dispute over Navajo voting rights is trailing after the initial tally, but too many votes remained uncounted to make it final.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is calling on voters in a southeastern Utah county to reject a ballot proposition that could lead to expanding a three-member county commission that Native Americans took the majority of last year.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — County officials in Utah have agreed to pay $2.6 million to the Navajo Nation following a voting rights case that reconfigured voting districts.
BLANDING, Utah (AP) — A Utah county paid high fees to an out-of-state law firm to sue the federal government in a case involving a canyon right of way.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported Monday that JW Howard Attorneys billed San Juan County more than $360,000
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Newly obtained documents reveal a small county in southeastern Utah paid a consulting firm nearly $500,000 to lobby against the designation of the Bears Ears National Monument and for the downsizing of it after it was created.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge has denied a challenge by an unsuccessful candidate for the San Juan County Commission and ruled that newly-sworn-in Commissioner Willie Grayeyes is a Utah resident.
MONTICELLO, Utah (AP) — A southeastern Utah county commission is officially majority Native American for the first time after two new Navajo members were sworn in.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is sending a monitor to watch polls in a southeastern Utah county where Navajo voters form a slim majority.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Navajo Nation leaders say voter rolls list many tribe members in wrong political boundaries in a southeastern Utah county where districts were overturned for being illegally drawn based on race.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has lifted a ban on motorized vehicles in a southeastern Utah canyon that was the setting of a 2014 ATV protest ride that was a flashpoint in the Western struggle over government land management.
Members of the Navajo Nation who say a 2014 switch to all-mail voting in a southern Utah county disenfranchised tribal voters want a judge to order an injunction restoring polling places for the November election.
A southern Utah county commissioner who became a cause celebre in the movement challenging the federal government's management of Western public lands is set to find out Friday if he'll get jail time for organizing an ATV protest ride through a closed canyon.