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Critical fire weather conditions are expected for areas north of the Mogollon Rim including the Little Colorado River Valley and Navajo Nation, as well as the mountains of Yavapai County and Oak Creek/Sycamore Canyons.
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Tribal leaders are calling out a high school in Farmington, New Mexico after a Lakota student’s traditional feather plume was cut off her cap during her graduation ceremony.
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The U.S. Forest Service says the cost of fighting wildfires on public lands throughout the country could reach nearly $4 billion or more a year by 2050.
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Phoenix-based poet Marlana-Patrice Pugh Hamer talks about channeling her work from a spiritual dimension and becoming a vessel for the written word. She reads her poem “Our Giant Steps," which is dedicated to her late husband and celebrates their shared love of jazz and the good times that often accompanied live music.
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The Navajo Nation Council is considering legislation to approve a sweeping water rights settlement with the federal government over the Colorado River and Little Colorado River Basin.
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Arizona’s highest court has given the state’s attorney general another 90 days to decide further legal action in the case over a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban.
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Rangers in Grand Canyon National Park have likely recovered the body of a Santa Fe man they believe was attempting to raft the Colorado River on a self-made wooden raft.
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Gila County will delay the rollout of new regulations on short-term rentals as the board of supervisors work to address local owner's concerns.
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A new, first-of-its-kind study on evaporating snow could help cities and farms that use water from the Colorado River. The results may lead to more accurate forecasts for water supplies.
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Fire managers on the Coconino National Forest conducted a third and final day of a 4,600-acre prescribed burn project about five miles south of Flagstaff Friday.
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A small newspaper in the Midwest is the setting for a new version of the hit TV show The Office. We asked the editor of a tiny newsroom in rural Iowa about what the show should focus on.
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With graduations around the corner, high school seniors reflect on how the pandemic shaped their experience. Jewel Peterson, Graham Jones, Sarah Foglia and Skylar Ward graduate this spring.
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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will find out if two judges are satisfied with assurances from the U.S. government about how he would be treated if he were he to face trial for espionage.
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A group of women in Livingston, N.J., has formed a league to play the sport they grew up watching from the stands.
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State media in Iran reports the president has died in a helicopter crash. The news is being closely watched in Israel. And, a hearing could decided if Julian Assange is extradited to the U.S.
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Windy Monday which will lead to elevated wildfire danger, red flag warnings are in effect across much of the region. The next couple of mornings mountain low temperatures will hover near freezing. Winds relax through the remainder of a sunny and warm work week.
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