BY BRANDON LOOMIS
A controversial plan to develop tourist attractions including a tram into the Grand Canyon will have its hearing before Navajo Nation lawmakers.
A Navajo Council member introduced legislation this week to approve the long-debated Grand Canyon Escalade project, complete with hotels above the Canyon rim and a tram to the Little Colorado River just upstream from its confluence with the Colorado.
The legislation also proposes $65 million in tribal development funds for roads and other needed improvements...