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George Andrejko/Arizona Game and Fish DepartmentPresident Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing his administration to begin the process to remove the Mexican gray wolf from the federal endangered species list. -
Rob Decot/CourtesyTwo Flagstaff residents had front-row seats — from the river and the trail — to deadly flash flooding that surged through Grand Canyon National Park. -
Jenny Kane/APThe U.S. Forest Service is closing 23 research stations in more than a dozen states as part of an overhaul under President Donald Trump. The Flagstaff Forestry Sciences Laboratory is not impacted. -
NPS Photo/J. BairdThe South Kaibab Trail is now closed below the Tip-Off, a landmark and resting area, and the Bright Angel Trail is off limits to visitors below the intersection with the Tonto Trail.
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A professor at Northern Arizona University teamed up with Navajo communities to test water quality in remote wells. The map is meant to help tribal members still struggling with the effects of past uranium mining. -
Arizona officials have given final approval to boost environmental protections for parts of the Upper Verde River and Sycamore Creek in northern Arizona. -
The Trump administration’s push to allow more road construction in national forests has alarmed preservationists in Arizona, who warn the change could lead to logging or more uranium mining near the Grand Canyon. -
Grand Canyon National Park officials are distributing bottled drinking water to park residents after last weekend’s flooding destroyed sections of the Transcanyon Waterline. -
The federal agency’s action — published Tuesday — contends that its decision is intended to “encourage energy production” in the midst of Trump’s self-declared national energy emergency. -
The Grand Canyon’s notoriously rugged terrain, now scarred by flooding, complicates the search for a missing man and the completion of damage assessments to infrastructure.
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A screenwriter is suing a major Hollywood television producer, alleging that her screenplay and ideas were stolen and used in the hit TV series Yellowstone.
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The UN estimates 650 million women and girls currently alive were married before age 18. A new resolution aims to bring awareness and push countries to act to end child marriage.
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Many California countertop workers diagnosed with silicosis from engineered stone are struggling to obtain workers' compensation benefits as insurers deny claims.
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A landslide victory for the far-right AfD in a tiny German region sends seismic political tremors far beyond its borders.
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Federal aviation investigators are searching for answers following a deadly cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport Sunday that killed five people and injured at least five others.
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It’s a quiet holiday weekend forecast for most of the region. Expect partly cloudy skies and seasonably warm afternoons. As for monsoon rain, Saturday storms will develop over the White Mountains region, Sunday across far northwestern and northern AZ, then again confined to the Whites on Labor Day.
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