This story was originally published by the Arizona Mirror. In an effort to address the ongoing drought affecting the Southwest, the Gila River Indian Community is taking an innovative step forward by ...

The Gila River Indian Community will install solar panels over one of its canals to produce power and reduce evaporation from some of its irrigation waterways. The tribe, whose reservation lies south ...

A historic water deal could give an impoverished Indian community a path back to its roots — and turn it into one of the West’s next big power brokers Thirty miles south of downtown Phoenix, past the ...

SACATON, Arizona (AP) — Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe’s water. His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the ...

The Colorado River as it flows around Horseshoe Bend on June 23, 2021, in Page. Severe drought is causing concern and heartache among those who rely on water from the Colorado River Basin. (Photo by ...

GILA RIVER COMMUNITY, AZ — The Gila River Indian Community continues to look for ways to conserve its water supply, and it may have found a way that’s the first of its kind in the country. As part of ...

PINAL COUNTY, AZ (AZFamily) — A man is dead after being shot by officers in the Gila River Indian Community last weekend. FBI spokesperson confirmed the officer-involved shooting happened last Sunday ...

Gila River Indian Community Governor Stephen Roe Lewis and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District Commander Col. Andrew Baker signed a project partnership agreement during a ceremony Nov. 9 ...