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An 8-year-old girl who was reported missing Thursday in the community of Coalmine on the Navajo Nation has been found dead. A Turquoise Alert had been issued early Friday morning.
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Northern Arizona University officials say they’re halting plans for a College of Medicine amid economic uncertainty.
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Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren made his third annual state address Tuesday, outlining his administration’s accomplishments despite ongoing efforts to remove him from office before his term ends.
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Last year, North Country Healthcare filed for bankruptcy following allegations by staff that the organization had stopped paying for their health insurance. KNAU speaks with the local reporter who broke the story.
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Ancestral Puebloan peoples developed ingenious methods to collect, store, conserve, and utilize water.
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Twin bills introduced in the U.S. House and Senate would finalize a long-running Yavapai-Apache Nation water rights settlement and secure additional water sources in the Verde Valley.
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Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has died at age 59. A family representative made the announcement Tuesday afternoon but did not reveal a cause of death.
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In her State of the State address to lawmakers Monday, Gov. Katie Hobbs proposed tax cut initiatives as well as water and affordability issues.
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The proposals range from "no action" to a scenario that might result in water cuts to the lower-basin states, including Arizona. One option would incentivize states and water users to proactively conserve the river.
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Protesters rallied in Flagstaff, Prescott, Cottonwood and other Arizona communities over the weekend as part of nationwide demonstrations after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a woman in Minnesota.
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Until last year, the number of children orphaned because a parent died from AIDS, was plummeting. That's thanks to America's 20 year effort to get lifesaving HIV meds to millions in need. But last years upheaval in foreign aid funding is raising concern that more children will be at risk of losing a parent to the deadly virus.
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Fewer women are having children than a few generations ago. Sarah McCammon talks with three generations of women in one Atlanta family to understand how opportunities and choices have changed.
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At the movies: the case for and against musicals
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India said it would help create hundreds of "vibrant villages" along its border with China. Three years later, residents wonder where they are.
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Marchers gathered Sunday in downtown L.A. against the Iranian crackdown on the protests that have taken place there over recent weeks.
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