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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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There were no diplomatic breakthroughs in Kyiv over the weekend.
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A total of four people were pulled alive from the mud and debris that has covered remote villages in the Himalaya for nearly two weeks.
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Authorities are investigating a cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport on Sunday that killed at least five people after the plane overshot the runway during landing and slammed into multiple vehicles.
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Rosanne Cash was 18 when her famous dad gave her a list of 100 essential country songs he thought she needed to know. She's since worked across many musical genres. Originally broadcast Oct. 5, 2009.
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One week after the deadly floods, very little is known about China's dead or missing. China's control over media and digital censorship is in stark contrast to open reporting in Nepal.
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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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