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The Gila County Sheriff’s Office says a 25-year-old man drowned at the Fossil Creek Lower Waterfalls over the weekend.
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Experts attribute the drop in visitors to Grand Canyon National Park to last summer’s Dragon Bravo Fire.
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New Mexico water negotiator Estevan López said talks resumed this month, and the upper and lower basin states are using a short-term pitch from Nevada as a starting point.
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Coconino County health officials have confirmed 2026's first measles case. Members of the public were possibly exposed at three locations in Page.
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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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Delta Airlines is temporarily suspending specialty services to member of Congress due to resource constraints from the ongoing shutdown of DHS.
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Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of shooting a man in his car during an argument. He has shared his story of becoming a pro athlete after losing his arms and legs to a childhood bacterial infection.
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New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson describes conditions in Cuba, why it's vulnerable now — and what regime change would mean — considering the Castro family's entrenchment in the Cuban government.
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Pulido has been a mainstay of Tejano music —a genre blending traditional regional Mexican elements with country, pop and conjunto influences — for more than three decades.
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President Trump said the U.S. will delay military strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure while it negotiates with Iran.
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Unseasonable heat persists this week, with daily high temperature records falling daily for many locations.