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Arizona Public Service Company wants to raise its electricity rates by about 14%. But Attorney General Kris Mayes says APS could get away with a 3% increase and still maintain reliable service.
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The National Weather Service says the record-setting temperature was recorded just outside Martinez Lake along the Arizona-California border.
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It's officially the last day of winter, but the forecast says otherwise. KNAU meteorologist Lee Born stopped by Morning Edition to discuss the heat wave breaking record-high temperatures.
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Arizona utilities are now shielded from wildfire lawsuits, but critics call their safety plans "strikingly insufficient." A 2025 law could leave homeowners at risk.
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The United Farm Workers union has distanced itself from annual celebrations of its founder, Cesar Chavez, amid what it said were troubling but unspecified allegations.
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For decades, Joy Harjo has challenged what it means to be a poet. The multifaceted author, musician and playwright was the first Indigenous person to serve as U.S. poet laureate.
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Every spring, thousands of sheep were herded on a three-week trek across northern Arizona, up onto the Colorado Plateau for summer grazing.
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Managers on the Kaibab National Forest are planning thousands of acres of prescribed burns north of the Grand Canyon that could begin as early as Tuesday.
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The Arizona Game and Fish Department released 19 endangered black-footed ferrets at three sites in northern Arizona last week as part of the long-running reintroduction program for the imperiled species.
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The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international mining companies is complete, but a group of Apache women is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene as a last-ditch effort to stop the project.
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The ceasefire, in effect for the past six months, has brought some reprieve to Palestinians in Gaza despite continued hardship, displacement and Israeli restrictions on aid.
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The World Food Program warns the humanitarian crisis triggered by war in the Middle East could ripple around the globe.
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Israeli and U.S. government rhetoric and aims for the war in Iran appear to be diverging.
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Norris karate chopped and kickboxed his way through more than a dozen action films, before leaping to TV in Walker, Texas Ranger.
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Harerimana Ismail of Uganda is a community health worker who checks on kids with HIV. He lost his salary after the Trump administration's aid cuts but he keeps doing his job.
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Happy first day of spring Friday, though feeling more like summer. Unseasonable heat continues into the first days of the new season.