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Scott ThybonyIn this month’s Canyon Commentary, author Scott Thybony takes us into the remote Lukachukai Mountains on the Navajo Nation to explore a 1,500-year-old ruin with rock art that features hundreds of mysterious painted handprints. -
Shondiin Silversmith/Arizona MirrorThe Navajo Nation Council has unanimously passed legislation opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. -
Maya Bernadett-Peters/AP PhotoThe Indian Health Service is moving forward with a lengthy list of construction projects in the Southwest that were first promised to Native American patients more than 30 years ago. -
SRPArizona Public Service says a planned 14% rate hike is needed as the cost of maintaining the grid has risen sharply. But Attorney General Kris Mayes and consumer advocates are pushing back against the proposal.
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The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park including the entire North Kaibab Trail will reopen to the public on May 15. -
Researchers in the Southwest are using hidden recorders to capture the fluted whistles of the pinyon jay. It’s part of a new effort to track ecological changes through sound. -
Sedona officials say they’re disappointed that a state bill to crack down on short-term rentals doesn’t address housing affordability. -
Authorities in northern Arizona say they have made an arrest in the 1987 stabbing of 24-year-old Northern Arizona University student Ina Claire Langstaff. -
The Gila County Sheriff’s Office says a 25-year-old man drowned at the Fossil Creek Lower Waterfalls over the weekend. -
Experts attribute the drop in visitors to Grand Canyon National Park to last summer’s Dragon Bravo Fire.
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Juries in two big cases have affirmed what research is finding: The design of social media platforms is particularly compelling and hard to resist for kids. There are growing calls to change it. -
Yellowstone's creator is back with two new shows set in the American West. Marshals struggles, but The Madison offers a thoughtful portrait of a family in flux. -
After the sudden death of her boyfriend, a young Berlin woman is taken in by a family she meets in the countryside. In showing the ache of love and loss, Miroirs No. 3 holds up a mirror to us all. -
It's like the "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment. There are two very different potential realities, and traders don't yet know which one is true. -
The House Ethics Committee has found evidence that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick violated House rules. This comes after the panel held a rare public hearing to review investigations into allegations against the Florida Democrat.
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Daily high temperature records will fall for day 11 in a row Friday. An end of the heat dome is in sight, breaking down Sunday into next week, which will gradually erode the heat and allow weak storm energy to bring along light rain showers and thunderstorms Sunday into mid-week.
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