For centuries, Spanish explorers, U.S. Army troops, wagon train emigrants and railroad surveyors carved their names on a huge sandstone outcrop in what's now a national monument famed for those inscriptions.

It's the last stop of the day for Rural Bookmobile West, snugged up against a curb in a corner of the Ramah Post Office parking lot, where a few customers-to-be wait in their cars protected from looming dark clouds that smell of rain.

By Tammy Gray-Searles Nearly $74 million in federal stimulus funds will be used to construct three sorely needed adult detention centers on the Navajo Nation.

Written by Karen Francis,Gallup Independent The program began with a weeklong leadership camp where students learned lessons on teamwork and woke early each morning to run.

Law enforcement officials in McKinley, N.M., said flash floods washed away vehicles and moved boulders into roadways on Saturday.