Latest Local News
-
The U.S. Forest Service says the cost of fighting wildfires on public lands throughout the country could reach nearly $4 billion or more a year by 2050.
-
Phoenix-based poet Marlana-Patrice Pugh Hamer talks about channeling her work from a spiritual dimension and becoming a vessel for the written word. She reads her poem “Our Giant Steps," which is dedicated to her late husband and celebrates their shared love of jazz and the good times that often accompanied live music.
-
New technology will connect teachers at Mohave County schools directly to law enforcement. Schools can then provide real-time information to emergency responders so they can approach critical incidents with the right resources.
-
Arizona Rep. Eli Crane was part of a group of House Republicans who showed up at Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York Thursday.
-
Rangers in Grand Canyon National Park have likely recovered the body of a Santa Fe man they believe was attempting to raft the Colorado River on a self-made wooden raft.
-
Gila County will delay the rollout of new regulations on short-term rentals as the board of supervisors work to address local owner's concerns.
-
A new, first-of-its-kind study on evaporating snow could help cities and farms that use water from the Colorado River. The results may lead to more accurate forecasts for water supplies.
-
Fire managers on the Coconino National Forest conducted a third and final day of a 4,600-acre prescribed burn project about five miles south of Flagstaff Friday.
-
Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren told a congressional subcommittee that chronically underfunded programs represent a failure of the federal government to uphold its trust obligation to tribes for equity and socioeconomic justice.
-
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has finalized its guidance for protecting water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
NPR News
-
Actor and director Chris Pine talks about learning from failure in an interview with NPR's Rachel Martin on her new show Wild Card.
-
NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with biologist Vesta Eleuteri regarding a study she authored about elephant communication.
-
Despite widespread condemnation, Israel appears intent on pushing further in Rafah. That's raising questions of whether it's slipping toward international isolation.
-
NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan about the James Webb Space Telescope's recent discovery of two distant black holes colliding.
-
A helicopter with the Iranian president on board made a "hard landing," according to state-run media.
KNAU’s daily local news podcast
LISTEN NOW
LISTEN NOW
Dry, warm and breezy (to locally windy) afternoons are forecast this weekend. Overnight low temperatures are expected to hover just above freezing for the Flagstaff and mountain regions. Early next week winds will remain elevated, we turn cooler, and morning frosts are likely at elevation (caution for gardeners).
View our Current Membership Thank You Gifts