Oak Flat in Arizona is at the center of a struggle that's going on three decades. Here's everything that has happened with the proposed copper mine.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. District Court Judge Dominic W. Lanza heard arguments from the San Carlos Apache Tribe and a consortium of environmentalists ...

Depending on a final appeal to the Supreme Court, the U.S. Forest Service may soon finally move forward with the construction of a copper mine in the heart of Western Apache holy land.

Apache Stronghold asked a federal judge to stop the Trump administration from moving ahead with plans to transfer sacred lands to Resolution Copper. The administration said in April it would push ...

The Trump administration has already transferred the land to a private mining company; parents argued their children's religious upbringing is at stake.

Apache Stronghold, a grassroots group, will ask a federal judge May 7 to halt a land swap that would allow work to start on a copper mine at Oak Flat east of Phoenix. The U.S. Supreme Court has not ...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Federal law limits the ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — San Carlos Apache tribal members are at the center of a fight to protect their sacred land from being mined, saying the company at the helm will destroy their way of life. The ...

A federal judge in Phoenix paused a land transfer of 2,400 acres — including the centuries-old Western Apache sacred site, Oak Flat — to a foreign mining company while the U.S. Supreme Court considers ...

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear an Apache religious challenge to the construction of a massive copper mine on Oak Flat, a swath of untouched federal land in Arizona that tribe members ...