A three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit heard three lawsuits, with several saying the issues were already resolved in favor ...

The Trump administration has now put the Oak Flat copper mine on the fast track for permit approval, a day after moving to push ahead with a land swap. A federal agency that oversees and supports ...

Religious rights advocates and First Amendment experts say the ability of Native peoples to exercise religious rights is at ...

Oak Flat in Arizona is at the center of a struggle that's going on three decades. Here's everything that has happened with ...

The U.S. Forest Service has released the final environmental review for a huge copper mine proposed 60 miles east of Phoenix, marking one of the final steps toward a controversial land exchange that ...

TUCSON— Two years after a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Forest Service this week released the appraisals for the proposed Oak Flat land exchange and mine project in Arizona.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Wednesday in three related cases that seek to stop the Oak Flat land exchange in eastern Arizona while the lawsuits are pending.

Apache Stronghold leader Wendsler Nosie was away from his trailer at the Oak Flat encampment. He fears the worst had he been ...

Carrying eagle feathers and chanting prayers, Western Apache runners hit the road on a roughly 80-mile journey this month to try to save their sacred land from being fast-tracked by President Donald ...

A federal judge has rejected an attempt by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and a coalition of environmentalists to stop a contested land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and Resolution Copper. In ...

A U.S. district judge on Friday denied the latest request by a Native American tribe, environmentalists and other plaintiffs to stop the federal government from transferring land in Arizona for a ...

That pending land swap between the U.S. Forest Service and a multinational mining company would result in a six-decade ...