Navajo Nation

The 68 Navajo students at Lybrook bring their district hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding each year, — $381,000 in fiscal year 2025 — money meant to help Indigenous students. Families and school staff believe the money received for Lybrook students is instead going to other schools in the district, whose student populations are almost entirely non-Native.

The New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (OBAE) has announced over $900 million in investments towards broadband infrastructure, with the help of both federal and state support.

On Tuesday, the New Mexico congressional delegation and pueblo leaders held a press conference outside the Capitol in Washington D.C. to urge Congress and the Trump Administration to continue upholding protections for Chaco Canyon against oil and gas drilling.

Richelle Montoya, vice president of the Navajo Nation, told state lawmakers on the Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee on Thursday her community is concerned about its schools in the face of federal funding cuts.

Reporter Jerry Redfern of Capital and Main describes his reporting the abandoned oil wells that some people are using as a water source.

The company at the center of a controversial green energy project connecting New Mexico and Arizona has changed plans for a key component: A much-debated pipeline that would have carried climate-friendly hydrogen will instead carry natural gas, and possibly a natural gas-hydrogen blend at a future date.

A new podcast by journalists Andy Lyman and Laura Paskus aims to keep New Mexico news and people front and center. On their inaugural episode of “Lesser Known New Mexico,” the two spoke with Source New Mexico’s Patrick Lohmann about his recent coverage on the potential restart of uranium mining in the state.

Since President Trump issued numerous executive orders last month related to immigration enforcement, some Native American communities have raised concerns over the safety of tribal members, with reports of some being detained and being misidentified as immigrants.

A Navajo citizen describes being questioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Local Indigenous communities that have been impacted by long-term uranium exposure will be traveling to Washington D.C. on Sunday to demand that Congress pass a bill that will compensate those exposed to radiation.