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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nhonews.com | Susan Bryan
By Susan Montoya BryanAssociated PressWINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren announced Oct. 15 that he has removed responsibilities from Vice President Richelle Montoya, saying she no longer represents his administration and should consider resigning from the highest office within the Navajo Nation to ever be held by a woman. Nygren made the announcement in a news conference that was broadcast on social media.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
heraldcourier.com | Susan Bryan
Cancer survivor and Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium founder Tina Cordova, center, answer questions during a discussion following the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
heraldcourier.com | Susan Bryan
New Mexico Sen. Leo Jaramillo, center, is flanked by panelists and downwinders as they discuss the film "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
heraldcourier.com | Susan Bryan
New Mexico Sen. Leo Jaramillo walks into a theater for the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. The documentary tells the stories of those who lived near the Trinity Test Site when the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb and the Native Americans who worked in the uranium industry.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
heraldcourier.com | Susan Bryan
Not many people know the world's first detonation of an atomic bomb was on U.S. soil. It would be weeks later that humanity would witness the power of atomic weapons when bombs were dropped on Japan during World War II. While the damage in Japan has been well documented, the story of New Mexico downwinders and the health effects that resulted from Trinity Test fallout is relatively unknown.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
heraldcourier.com | Susan Bryan
A dozen people were inside a movie set church the day Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza during a rehearsal for the Western film “Rust.”Now, almost three years later and after countless hearings and much legal wrangling, Baldwin is standing trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Some of those who were inside the church that fateful day in 2021 are expected to testify.
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May 28, 2024 | 
williamsnews.com | Susan Bryan
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation Council has unanimously approved a proposed water rights settlement that carries a price tag larger than any such agreement enacted by Congress. The tribe has one of the largest single outstanding claims in the Colorado River basin, and Thursday's vote marks one of many approvals needed to finalize a deal that has been years in the making.
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May 14, 2024 | 
heraldcourier.com | Moriah Balingit |Dylan Lovan |Daniel Beekman |Susan Bryan
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Across the country, the story for families is virtually the same: Child care is unaffordable for many, hard to find for those who can pay, and financially precarious for day care operators and their employees. The Biden administration and Congress tried to alleviate some of these problems when the pandemic crippled the child care industry. But as the record $52.5 billion in relief winds down, many states have stepped in with their own solutions.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
williamsnews.com | Susan Bryan
Trusted local news leader for Williams AZ and the Grand Canyon By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press Originally Published: April 2, 2024 9:06 a.m.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
kunm.org | Morgan Lee |Patrick Lohmann |Danielle Prokop |Susan Bryan
New Mexico halts some oil-field lease sales in standoff over royalty rates in Permian Basin - By Morgan Lee, Associated PressNew Mexico's State Land Office will withhold lease sales indefinitely on its most promising tracts for oil and natural gas development in the Permian Basin as it seeks approval by the state Legislature to increase top-tier royalty rates, Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard said Thursday.
