Religious rights advocates and First Amendment experts say the ability of Native peoples to exercise religious rights is at ...

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

A three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit heard three lawsuits, with several saying the issues were already resolved in favor ...

The Trump administration plans to reissue the final environmental impact statement for a long-delayed land swap that would hand over Oak Flat, a site considered sacred to Apache peoples and other ...

Environmental activists in Arizona have taken a step forward in their efforts to stop the Oak Flat land transfer to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a Native American group's effort to block Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) and BHP (BHP) from gaining control of Arizona land needed to build the Resolution ...

Public support for religious freedom is increasing, yet Native American religious rights cases face frequent denial in federal courts. Experts suggest the reluctance to protect Native religions stems ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred. The justices ...

SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — Outside of an aging mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, a copper company has burrowed a shaft 1.3 miles into the high desert landscape in what is believed to be the ...

A Native American non-profit group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) and partner BHP (BHP) from gaining access to Arizona land needed to build the Resolution Copper ...

A U.S. appeals court has temporarily blocked the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America.

(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court gave a boost on Tuesday to plans for one of the world's largest copper mines, as the justices declined to hear a Native American group's bid based on religious rights ...