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AP Photo/Matt York, FileArizona will provide billions in taxpayer money to help fund several new initiatives aimed at providing alternate drinking water sources for the state. -
Abigail Wilt/Cronkite NewsThe small town is known for its polygamist history under the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A recent measles outbreak marks Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah again. -
Yavapai County Sheriff's OfficeThe Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says a man was rescued and another man remains missing after a flash flood in Cordes Lakes Tuesday afternoon. -
Patrick Hayes/NPSMammoth bones found on the Colorado Plateau may shift the timeline of when humans first reached the Americas. Archaeologists are debating what the discovery means.
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Grand Canyon National Park officials will close the North Rim for the season Friday afternoon ahead of possible snow. -
Coconino County health officials are warning those who visited the Flagstaff Mall last Thursday that they may have been exposed to measles. -
Negotiators missed a deadline to reach an agreement on Colorado River allocations, spurring a bipartisan call to action from Arizona leaders to the U.S. Department of the Interior. -
The Clovis people hunted mammoths and other Ice Age giants more than 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists are uncovering what happened when those animals disappeared. -
Officials in Mohave County say a 65-year-old man slipped and fell 130 feet to his death last week in the western portion of the Grand Canyon. -
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
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Officials say a fire that spread through pavilions being used for U.N. climate talks in Brazil has prompted evacuations on the next-to-last day of the conference. -
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb put a pause on her order until Dec. 11 to allow the Trump administration time to appeal. -
The U.S. has proposed a peace plan for Russia and Ukraine, but the EU has already indicated it won't accept the deal.
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U.S. employers added 119,000 jobs in September, but hiring was weaker than expected. That's according to a new report from the Labor Department, which was delayed because of the government shutdown.
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Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have lost their legal right to stay in the U.S., among them an amateur astronomer sharing his love of stargazing as he tries to secure a visa.
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The final storm in this series brings rain into western AZ Friday afternoon, then dives south Friday night. Showers persist across southern and central AZ Saturday. Saturday night into early Sunday rain and snow showers push as far north as Flagstaff, with little to no snow accumulation. Showers taper off across eastern AZ through Sunday afternoon. Quiet and mild weather then returns for Thanksgiving week.
