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Northern Arizona University officials say police are investigating an unconfirmed bomb threat in the area around Ardrey Auditorium Thursday.
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The sole person charged in the 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay received a five-year federal prison sentence. The unsolved case underscores the disproportionate violence Native Americans face.
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A new federal report lists numerous problems miners face in receiving benefits. A former coal miner and advocate on the Navajo Nation says the issues it raises aren’t new to him.
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Three decades ago, the use of cloud seeding to enhance precipitation over the region was tested as part of a large field experiment.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development as part of President Donald Trump's attempt to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.
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Grand Canyon National Park officials say they've found the body of 26-year-old Sandarsh Krishna who'd been missing since late April.
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A federal hydrologist appeared to be momentarily at a loss for words Thursday as he described how dire the latest forecast has gotten for how much water will flow through the Colorado River Basin this summer.
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A uranium ore truck headed from the Pinyon Plain Mine to Utah crashed on the Navajo Nation near Shonto Wednesday. Officials say no radiation leak was detected.
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Moon trees are descendants of the seeds astronaut Stuart Roosa brought with him on Apollo 14 in the 1970s. U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly helped Lowell dedicate a tree on May 5.
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The Navajo Nation Department of Criminal Investigations does not have an on-site medical examiner, forcing criminal investigators to take on duties they are not properly trained for and slowing down murdered and missing persons investigations.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that a Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children.
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This week, in Warshington, D.C., the Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve and we wrote a quiz question about his name. Enjoy that, and the other nine, too.
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What does representation look like for Tennessee voters who were split into three new congressional districts last week? NPR traveled from Memphis into the Nashville suburbs to ask.
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Gen Z homeowners now outpace millennials at the same age. They're more likely to be single and less likely to use help from parents.
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Trump returns to U.S. after trip to China, Supreme Court decides to maintain abortion pill access, U.K. prime minister faces challenges from his own party.
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Sunny, warm and relatively calm on Friday, high temperatures running around 10 degrees above average for this time of year. Expect a windy and gradually cooler weekend ahead.
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