Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. . Wendsler Nosie has led the fight to protect Oak Flats for almost a decade. (Photo/Apache Stronghold) Apache Stronghold, a Native ...

PHOENIXPHOENIX — Oak Flat, a piece of national forest land in central Arizona, is at the heart of a yearslong struggle between Native American groups and mining interests that both consider it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Apache women asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to halt a disputed land exchange at the center of a long battle ...

After a two-month pilgrimage across the nation, Apache Stronghold formally presented its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in a final bid to stop a massive copper mine from obliterating ...

They started atop the mountain in Oak Flat on Sunday, roughly 70 miles east of Phoenix. There were nearly a dozen of them, members of the group Apache Stronghold, and by the end of the day, they’d ...

SUPERIOR — Carlos Nosie sunned himself in a camp chair as he watched a group of young runners converge on Oak Flat to pray for the site to be spared from obliteration by a copper mining operation. "I ...

PHOENIX (AP) — An Apache group that has fought to protect land it considers sacred from a copper mining project in central Arizona suffered a significant blow Friday when a divided federal court panel ...