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A grand jury in Coconino County has indicted a former Northern Arizona University student after the death of a fraternity pledge in January.
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The Flagstaff Police Department and the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for space to station agents in the city.
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In 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.
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The Navajo Nation Council has unanimously passed legislation opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
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The 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.
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Arizona 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.
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Sedona officials say they’re disappointed that a state bill to crack down on short-term rentals doesn’t address housing affordability.
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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.
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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.
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Scientists discover what makes basketball shoes squeak on the courts, and celebrate their discovery by making music.
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The federal debt continues to grow, topping $39 trillion this month. Like a shopper who buys more than he earns every week, the nation's credit card bill is compounding. Just paying the interest now costs more than every other government program except Social Security.
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Staff at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium have reared a special kind of fish known as a warty frogfish for the first time in captivity. Their success may hold broader lessons for raising marine species.
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The White House has depicted the war in Iran online with videos that weave real life images of missile strikes and destruction with clips from video games, sports clips, and action movies.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with House Armed Service Committee ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., about the war on Iran, now a month old, and DHS funding.
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Unseaosnably warm afternoons continue into a partly cloudy and breezy weekend. Next week we turn gradually cooler and windy, with spotty, light rain showers Monday-Wednesday.