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Kaibab LodgeSeveral elected leaders from northern Arizona are calling on Attorney General Kris Mayes to determine if the Trump administration’s cuts to wildfire mitigation efforts are illegal. -
Adrian Skabelund / KNAUFlagstaff officials say they deactivated the city’s automated license plate cameras after the council unanimously voted to end its contract with Flock Safety Tuesday. -
Courtesy of Tanner CarothersSome things can only be found if you know exactly where to look. The Peebles Navajo Cactus, at less than 3 centimeters tall, doesn’t seem to want to be found. Its thorny spines mimic surrounding grit so closely, it nearly disappears into the sand. -
NPSOfficials at Grand Canyon National Park will reopen hotels on the South on Wednesday more than a week after a break in the Transcanyon Waterline forced the closure of all overnight lodging.
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A new study on the condor has revealed fundamental new insights into the lives of these critically endangered bird of prey. -
An Arizona lawmaker has a plan to increase legislative pay for the first time since 1998 while also imposing term limits in the state House and Senate. -
The Trump administration, which has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies, removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from the 2026 list of fare-exempt days for visitors at dozens of national parks. -
Last October, Arizona Medicaid approved coverage for traditional healing practices. Many agree it has helped expand access, preserving Indigenous culture. -
Several northern Arizona communities received record fall rainfall after a dry winter and weak monsoon, boosting water levels but raising future wildfire risk. -
Arizona health officials are continuing to recommend that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth despite a new recommendation from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel.
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European Union leaders have agreed to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years. The loan will not rely on frozen Russian assets. -
A jury returns a guilty verdict in the case of Hannah Dugan. The Milwaukee judge was accused of allowing an undocumented immigrant defender to evade immigration agents -
The suspect in Saturday's Brown University shooting was discovered dead at a storage facility in New Hampshire. The same man is suspected in the fatal shooting of an MIT physics professor on Monday. -
The agreement aims to resolve a yearslong standoff between the popular social media platform and the U.S. government over national security concerns tied to China's parent company, ByteDance. -
There's a puzzling split between how consumers overall feel about the economy and how they're acting, how much they are spending overall. Normally spending and feelings go together. Not right now.
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Quiet and mild December weather persists daily into early next week. A pattern change then unfolds leading up to Christmas, it looks like rain on the way for the holiday (snow appears to be confined to the mountain peaks), stay tuned.
