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Cheyanne Mumphrey / AP/APThe parents of a Flagstaff baby sickened in an infantile botulism outbreak are suing the makers of the ByHeart baby formula at the heart of a nationwide recall. -
Christopher Boswell/Adobe StockFlagstaff housing officials have created a map showing the city’s 990 registered short-term rentals. It provides residents with information about the properties located in local neighborhoods. -
C. Dubin/NPSGrand Canyon National Park officials will close the North Rim for the season Friday afternoon ahead of possible snow. -
Mary Conlon/APCoconino County health officials are warning those who visited the Flagstaff Mall last Thursday that they may have been exposed to measles.
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Negotiators missed a deadline to reach an agreement on Colorado River allocations, spurring a bipartisan call to action from Arizona leaders to the U.S. Department of the Interior. -
The Clovis people hunted mammoths and other Ice Age giants more than 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists are uncovering what happened when those animals disappeared. -
Officials in Mohave County say a 65-year-old man slipped and fell 130 feet to his death last week in the western portion of the Grand Canyon. -
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year. -
Since 2021 Flagstaff photographer Dawn Kish has been documenting the reemerging Glen Canyon as the water levels at Lake Powell have dropped. She was inspired by Tad Nichols who photographed the canyon in the 1950s before it was dammed. -
Gov. Katie Hobbs is applying to get $1 billion in newly available federal aid to help shore up rural health care—especially with the risk of loss of federal Medicaid dollars.
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President Trump's executive order comes after voters in off-year elections this month cited economic concerns as their top issue, resulting in big wins for Democrats in races in Virginia and New Jersey. -
MLS is switching from a spring-to-fall calendar to a summer-to-spring calendar. The move aligns with the rest of international soccer but could pose a challenge for teams in wintry locations.
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The BBC recently apologized for a documentary it aired in 2024 featuring remarks by President Trump. In light of this news, we wanted to share how NPR handles editing remarks by the president.
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In a few weeks, Australia will become the first country to ban children below the age of 16 from having social media accounts.
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Neeltje Boogert, an associate professor at the University of Exeter in the U.K., is the senior author of a new scientific study about how to best scare away gulls, out now from the Royal Society.
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The mild fall weather has been lovely while it has lasted. We now take a turn toward cold, wet, autumn weather this weekend as the first in a series of storms impacts the region. Saturday rain will enter western AZ through a cool afternoon, then spread region wide Saturday night into a sharply colder Sunday. Snow will mix with rain around the Flagstaff region Sunday, with no accumulation, though high mountain peaks looking at up to a foot of fresh snow. Another storm will quickly follow next Tuesday and Wednesday, stay tuned.
