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Coconino National Forest, the City of Flagstaff and Coconino County officials will implement stage 1 fire restrictions ahead of Memorial Day Weekend amid windy and dry conditions.
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The North Rim of the Grand Canyon reopened Friday eight months after the Dragon Bravo Fire burned 145,000 acres and destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge.
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Northern Arizona University officials say police are investigating an unconfirmed bomb threat in the area around Ardrey Auditorium Thursday.
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The sole person charged in the 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay received a five-year federal prison sentence. The unsolved case underscores the disproportionate violence Native Americans face.
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A new federal report lists numerous problems miners face in receiving benefits. A former coal miner and advocate on the Navajo Nation says the issues it raises aren’t new to him.
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Three decades ago, the use of cloud seeding to enhance precipitation over the region was tested as part of a large field experiment.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development as part of President Donald Trump's attempt to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.
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Grand Canyon National Park officials say they've found the body of 26-year-old Sandarsh Krishna who'd been missing since late April.
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A federal hydrologist appeared to be momentarily at a loss for words Thursday as he described how dire the latest forecast has gotten for how much water will flow through the Colorado River Basin this summer.
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A uranium ore truck headed from the Pinyon Plain Mine to Utah crashed on the Navajo Nation near Shonto Wednesday. Officials say no radiation leak was detected.
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The Supreme Court's recent ruling threatens the power of racial-minority voters in Voting Rights Act cases about not just Congress, but also at least 17 state and local governments, NPR finds.
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The fiber craze is pushing more people into the broad world of beans, as the U.S. bean industry looks to double American consumption of pulses by 2030.
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When a large tortoise named Rex got loose, a Phoenix-area neighborhood went into a tizzy. More than just a fun commotion, Rex's daring getaway shows the challenges of sulcata tortoise ownership.
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ends on Thursday. Here's how he has evolved to meet the moment.
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There are a lot of wellness trends that make health experts roll their eyes in skepticism. But there is one big trend that many experts can get behind – with a few caveats: fibermaxxing.
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Winds remain gusty Monday morning behind a cold front, which will diminish through a sunny and mild Monday afternoon (the coolest day of the forecast). We turn steadily warmer daily moving through a quiet week of weather.
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