YUMA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Gold mining is a billion-dollar business, and up until about 30 years ago, the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, a mountain range along the I-8 from Phoenix to San Diego, was home to a ...

The Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe has won for a third time in its battle against gold mining on its sacred lands. The Imperial County, California, Board of Supervisors voted March 19 to deny the Oro Cruz ...

Imperial County supervisors have declined to uphold an environmental approval for gold mining on tribal lands and rare habitat in the county's eastern edge. That means the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe has ...

Chase Choate beamed as he explained the plan for the morning. The goal was to plant 700 trees before noon. The cottonwoods and willows, Choate said, would be pretty straightforward. The honey mesquite ...

The Quechan Tribe — and Arizona — lost one of its cultural treasures when bead artist and Quechan language teacher Daisy Golding Simms died March 1 in Winterhaven, California, near Yuma. She was 88.

In the 20 years since rehabilitation efforts began in Yuma East Wetlands, the riparian habitat has gone from a dangerous illegal dumping site overrun with invasive plants to a place where people can ...

Brian Golding, director of economic development for the Fort Yuma Quechen Tribe, said the partnership started in 2004 to rehabilitate the Yuma East Wetlands. The tribe joined with the City of Yuma, ...

The Chuckwalla National Monument will protect public lands in southeastern California and will extend a conservation corridor stretching into Utah.

YUMA — Elders of the Quechan Tribe, in Southwestern Arizona and California, sang songs and prayed to their Creator to forgive the tribe for trying to build a casino on land they believe is sacred. The ...

From high above, Donald Medart Jr. looked down at the old mine. “You can see for yourself the difference in the landscape and the devastation that it caused,” he said. “There’s just a scar left.” ...

Dasan Lynch, a junior at San Pasqual Valley High, clearly envisions his future: He wants to go to college, play sports and pursue a career in law enforcement, like his great-grandfather. That’ll be ...