The latest twist in the battle over building the nation’s third largest open-pit copper mine in Southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains has derailed Hudbay Mineral Inc.’s mining operations and left the Canadian corporation on the losing end of a court decision. On Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2019 ruling by […]
Author Archives: Dianna M. Náñez
Dianna Náñez is Arizona Luminaria's Executive Editor and co-founder. She is an investigative journalist, narrative writer/editor and storytelling coach whose story of Indigenous and borderlands communities was part of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning Arizona Republic team coverage. She served as a board member for NAHJ and is a member of the 2017 cohort of ASNE’s Emerging Leaders Institute.