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Mohave County Sheriff’s officials say they’ve arrested one 14-year-old girl and another 15-year-old girl for allegedly threatening to carry out a shooting at Kingman High School.
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The Arizona Senate’s appropriations committee has advanced a series of last-minute measures as the Legislature prepares to adjourn for the year.
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One in six people in Coconino County experienced food insecurity before the pandemic. Job loss, inflation, and the nationwide shortage of baby formula have all made things worse for families struggling to make ends meet. A group of students at Flagstaff Arts & Leadership Academy decided to address the problem…. in a practical and artistic way. In KNAU’s latest installment of Eats & Beats, stories about food and music, Melissa Sevigny reports on a class project to install a Little Free Pantry.
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Last week, Raven Chacon became the first Indigenous composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. The musician and educator grew up in Chinle on the Navajo Nation and was recognized for a piece called “Voiceless Mass.” He composed it specifically to be played on a pipe organ housed in a church in Milwaukee and premiered the work during Thanksgiving weekend last year. The music has an unsettling quality that, as Chacon says, reflects marginalized communities that served as the inspiration for the piece. In this installment of KNAU’s series Eats and Beats, he talks about “Voiceless Mass” and how it could serve as a touchstone for the under-heard and overlooked.
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The Flagstaff Unified School District has lifted its face mask requirement for students and staff as cases of COVID-19 continue to decline. It comes after federal health officials issued new safety guidelines. KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius reports.
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Arizona’s largest teacher’s union is highly critical of Gov. Doug Ducey’s state-of-the-state address Monday, saying he offered no plan or support to keep schools open for in-person learning amid the state’s highest recorded numbers of COVID-19 infections.
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This Saturday marks the second annual installment of the Dream Concert. It’s a star-studded online performance benefitting the Native American Scholarship…
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The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to hear a direct appeal of a lower court ruling that found new laws banning schools from requiring masks and a series…
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Flagstaff Unified School District will keep its mask mandate for students and staff in place. It follows a court decision this week that ruled the state’s…
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A handful of school districts are prolonging mask mandates after a judge ruled Arizona’s ban on them was unconstitutional. Scottsdale Unified School…