FARMINGTON —Navajo Nation leaders met with U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., at the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry  Headquarters to hear issues regarding the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and the proposed Chaco Protection Act.

NAPI officials welcomed members of the 24th Navajo Nation Council, Sen. Luján, his constituents, Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer, and Navajo Nation Washington Office Executive Director Santee Lewis on July 1, before discussing the shortcomings on the operations and maintenance of NIIP.

NIIP was established to irrigate 110,630 acres of farmland on NAPI in 1962. It is federally owned, operated, and maintained by NAPI through Public Law...

Week ending Friday, July 2, 2021

Record Heat

The punishing heat wave that has baked much of western Canada up to the Arctic and down to the northwestern U.S. is being made more intense by hotter temperatures at night in areas that normally cool down after sunset. Experts say that this is making nights much warmer than the normal daytime temperatures. Simon Donner of the University of British Columbia said the hot nights are like a fingerprint of climate change. “This is exactly a specific sort of prediction that scientists have been making — that we would have warmer nights,” said Donner. The “heat dome” has caused hundreds of deaths and set an all-time heat record for...

Gallup Indian Medical Center will be the destination of patients who would generally go to Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services tonight.

Metro Dispatch put out a notice at 6:17 pm, that RMCH is on divert. They said the hospital placed the call, but did not tell the Sun the reason this action was taken.

The divert order means RMCH will not be accepting any patients until 6 am July 16 except for those suffering a stroke or suspected stroke.

All other patients en route to RMCH will be diverted to GIMC.

Efforts to contact RMCH received this response from spokesperson Ina M. Burmeister.

“From time to time workers call-in sick. This morning, our ER was more than adequately...

A weather system took down two power poles at County Road 1, north of the rock climbing area (second track crossing) on July 10.



Continental Electric and the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office are on the scene and estimate repairs will take as long as 14 hours or more, which could mean 7 am on July 11.

The downed power lines across the roadway resulted in two vehicle crashes which are being handled by the Navajo Police Department. There were no injuries.

MCSO will stay at the scene until the McKinley County Road Department can close the road from both directions.

County Road 1 is impassable at the site of the downed power lines until further notice.

Motorists are advised to use...