The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request by grassroots group Apache Stronghold to hear a longstanding lawsuit over the fate of a huge copper mine at Oak Flat, east of Phoenix. The decision, ...

James Phillips, an Apache tribe member who works for the Resolution Mining Co., stands on a platform overlooking Oak Flat, where the company is planning a copper mine. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) ...

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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 ...

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 left in place lower ...

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear an Apache religious challenge to the construction of a massive copper mine on Oak Flat, a swath of untouched federal land in Arizona that tribe members ...