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Cheyanne Mumphrey/AP Photo/APCindy Wilson has transformed her home on Butterfly Lane into a garden oasis in northern Arizona. But after wildfires and flooding hit the area five years ago, she decided to give away her blooms instead. -
Elias Butler PhotographyIn his latest Canyon Commentary, Scott Thybony recounts an unusual encounter with a slow flash flood deep in the Grand Canyon. -
AP PhotoIn her latest book, McGivney recounts how a 2009 retreat led by rising New Age star James Arthur Ray ended with three people dead after hours in a haphazard sweat lodge. -
Adrian Skabelund / KNAUThe affordable housing nonprofit is accepting applications for 10 new starter homes in Flagstaff’s Timber Sky development. It’s the next phase in the project launched last year.
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Sen. Mark Kelly along with the rest of Arizona’s Democratic congressional delegation are asking Congress for additional funding to help Grand Canyon National Park recover from a series of disasters in the past year. -
Every hunting season since 1998, the Arizona Game and Fish Department has asked hunters to bring them elk and deer heads to test for chronic wasting disease. -
Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez says two years of full Republican control in Washington DC has disappointed voters, as he challenges Rep. Eli Crane in Arizona’s Second Congressional District. -
Hotter, drier conditions driven by climate change have already made wildfires nationwide more frequent and intense. Tribal communities are especially vulnerable both during and after the fires. -
Flash flooding across the Navajo Nation has damaged roads, forced evacuations and claimed three lives as a late-season surge of monsoon moisture brings heavy rain to the Four Corners region. -
Grand Canyon National Park officials aim to restore water service to the South Rim by Nov. 16 and to residents by Thanksgiving. Concessionaires would then begin a phased reopening of overnight lodging.
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OpenAI's decision to hold back the model, called GPT-6.1 Astra, comes amid a broader push within the industry to slow the development of increasingly autonomous systems until safety measures catch up. -
One of the youngest women sent to death row is set to be executed in Tennessee. If carried out as scheduled Wednesday, it would be Tennessee's first execution of a woman in 200 years. -
The bill's supporters, which include the NCAA, say it will tame what they call a "Wild West" era of college sports as litigation chips away at long-held rules around eligibility, transfers and pay. -
Angie Nixon, the Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate in Florida, is running from the far left — raising questions about whether such a campaign can work in a red state like Florida.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with writer Meg Mason about her latest book, Sophie, Standing There, and the one-sided relationships we form with some of our favorite authors.
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Showers and thunderstorms continue into Tuesday night as moisture from former Hurricane Polo interacts with a fall low pressure system over the AZ. Flood Watches remain in effect. Shower activity shifts into eastern AZ Wednesday, a sunny and warm end of week and weekend follow.
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