Apache Stronghold, a Native American advocacy group, has made a final legal plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to block the development of one of the world’s largest copper mines on sacred Arizona land.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...