While Oak Flat is currently in public trust, the roughly 2,400-acre federal parcel will become private property once that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a religious freedom appeal from Native American activists seeking to protect one ...

Oak Flat -- about 70 miles outside of Phoenix -- is considered a sacred site by the region's Indigenous peoples and is on the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request by Apache Stronghold to hear a case over a proposed copper mine at Oak Flat.

An appeal from Apaches who want to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred has ...

The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether Native Americans can challenge a massive copper mining project in Arizona that ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an Arizona tribe fighting to halt the construction of a copper mining project on federal land that they hold sacred.

The San Carlos Apache Tribe has asked a federal judge to delay a land swap that could lead to a copper mine at Oak Flat east of Phoenix.

Apache tribal members are already feeling psychological and spiritual harm as the Trump administration moves to fast-track a deal to turn their sacred land of Oak Flat, Arizona, into a copper mine.

PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. district judge on Friday temporarily halted the federal government’s plans to transfer land in eastern Arizona for a massive copper mining project amid protest by Native ...