BIA and White Mountain Apache Tribal Forestry monitor prescribed fire blocks after recent pile burning operations.

An Apache girl comes of age in a traditional ceremony, possibly the last at Oak Flat before copper mining threatens to ...

Arizona’s annual Child Fatality Report shows fewer children died overall in 2024, but drownings increased. According to the state report, 36 Arizona children drowned in 2024, a 15% increase from 2023.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is investigating the death of 16-year-old White Mountain Apache girl Challistia Colelay as a homicide after she was found dead near Whiteriver on Nov. 3, weeks after she ...

The White Mountain Apache Police Department is seeking the public's help to identify human remains found on Monday, Nov. 3, near the Knots Landing community in Whiteriver. The deceased person is ...

Apache girls have entered womanhood at Oak Flat for generations, celebrating at a site where they believe the mountain spirits reside. As Lozen Brown-Lopez prepared for her Sunrise Dance, she worried ...