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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. -
Matt Jenkins/NPSThe North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park including the entire North Kaibab Trail will reopen to the public on May 15. -
Courtesy/City of Sedona GovernmentSedona 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. -
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. -
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. -
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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Hundreds of immigrants have been arrested at immigration courthouses. It is unclear whether the federal government's admission could lead to some of those arrests being overturned. -
Bloomberg journalist Katrina Manson discusses the Pentagon's secretive campaign to build America's AI warfare capabilities and the obsessive Marine colonel behind it. Her new book is Project Maven.
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In 2000, filmmaker Alejandro Iñárritu made waves at Cannes with Amores Perros. He's now turned the film's extra footage into a remarkable art installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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The motion is part of a lawsuit challenging President Trump and the Center's board, who now refer to the complex as "The Trump Kennedy Center." -
There was confusion about whether the satirist would be getting the Kennedy Center's top humor award after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it "fake news." Now it's confirmed.
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March heat persists into Saturday, with daily high temperature records falling daily for many locations. An end of the heat dome is finally in sight, breaking down Sunday into next week, which will gradually end the heat wave and allow weak storm energy to bring along light rain showers and thunderstorms Sunday and Monday.
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