Gila River will also get $83 million for a pipeline to move reclaimed water about 19 miles from the eastern side of the tribe's 372,000-acre reservation to its Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project ...

With funding from the Biden administration, the Gila River tribe is working on a pilot program to generate 1.3 megawatts of clean energy providing 2.3 million kilowatt-hours of annual electricity ...

The Gila River Indian Community is the first Arizona water rights holder to publicly pursue the federal government's new offer of compensation to leave Colorado River water in Lake Mead. Tribal ...

Joshua Briese, who had been with the Gila River Police Department for less than a year and had not completed field training, responded to the scene along with another tribal police officer around ...

Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis walks the Gila River Interpretive Trail in the Gila River Indian Community, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Sacaton, Ariz. Lewis has leveraged the Gila River tribe's water ...

Lewis, 56, has leveraged the Gila River tribe’s water abundance to help Arizona, making his tribe a power player in the parched region. His fingerprints are on many recent, high-stakes decisions ...

With funding from the Biden administration, the Gila River tribe is working on a pilot program to generate 1.3 megawatts of clean energy providing 2.3 million kilowatt-hours of annual electricity ...

Solar panels are close to being placed over a water canal in the Gila River Indian Community in Sacaton. The tribe's pilot program seeks to generate 1.3 megawatts of clean energy providing 2.3 ...

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 Gila River Indian ...

With funding from the Biden administration, the Gila River tribe is working on a pilot program to generate 1.3 megawatts of clean energy providing 2.3 million kilowatt-hours of annual electricity ...

Rerouting a river. These fortunes are recent. Starting in the 1800s, state and local governments stripped the Gila River tribe of water that it had depended on for millennia by damming the once ...

Lewis, 56, has leveraged the Gila River tribe’s water abundance to help Arizona, making his tribe a power player in the parched region. His fingerprints are on many recent, high-stakes decisions ...