By Kevin Opsahl

Sun Correspondent

 

In a virtual forum on Dec. 3, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez announced he would be extending a lock down order for three weeks to prevent the spread of coronavirus, in addition to sending a “major disaster declaration” for President Donald Trump to sign.

 

The extension would begin Dec. 7, ordering the Navajo people to only go out for “essential business” and limiting gatherings under one roof. He also reinstated the 57-hour weekend curfew for the Nation Friday through Monday and having needed businesses open only for 12 hours a day during the work week. Nez reminded people that if a household needs something, only one person should...

With his presidency now nearing its end, Donald Trump is rushing through a process to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain to lease for oil drilling.

The administration has invited oil companies to name the areas they’d like to drill in one of the nation’s most iconic and sacred landscapes. The Center for Biological Diversity joined Indigenous groups this week in condemning the move.

“On his way out the door, Trump is trying to lock in climate chaos and the extinction of polar bears and other endangered Arctic species. This is unconscionable,” the Center’s Kristen Monsell said. “The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge can’t be replaced, so we can’t...

 

 

 

People in the East Wilson and East Pershing areas were left without water from about 3:45 pm Nov. 28 to approximately 5 pm, when an unscheduled leaking water line on Second Street was discovered around 9 am and the Gallup Water Department worked to make repairs there.

Dennis Romero, Executive Director of Water and Sanitation for Gallup told the Sun that the leak was in a pipe with flowable fill, a workable slurry of cement which adds weight around the pipe and weakens it when it hardens.

The pipe had a lengthwise crack.

In order to make the repair, water pressure was killed to the East Pershing and East Wilson area in the afternoon, but was restored by around 5 pm.