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Matthew Brown/AP PhotoThe Trump administration removed tribal lands in Arizona from a 2030 census test, drawing concern over how Indigenous communities will be counted. -
Gabriel Pietrorazio/KJZZResults from last week's White Mountain Apache Tribe primary show Chairman Kasey Velasquez earned a little over 400 votes, while his challengers both received nearly four times as many. -
Maricopa CountyAn Arizona judge has struck down a series of state laws restricting abortion, concluding they all run afoul of a constitutional amendment approved in 2024 by voters. -
Adrian Skabelund/KNAUThe Coconino County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man who allegedly shot at Flagstaff police and was the subject of a two-hour confrontation earlier this week.
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The Arizona Department of Public Safety has identified the pilot and trooper-paramedic who were killed in a helicopter crash in Flagstaff Wednesday. -
Arizona’s U.S. senators plan to introduce a bill designed to fast-track reconstruction on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park following last summer’s Dragon Bravo and White Sage fires. -
The Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter crew was assisting Flagstaff police with an active shooter situation when it crashed Wednesday night, killing the pilot and another trooper. -
For the last year the level of arsenic in the City of Williams’ drinking water was nearly double the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s safety standards. -
A DPS helicopter assisting with an active shooter situation in Flagstaff crashed overnight, killing both the pilot and trooper onboard. -
A US House committee has approved a measure that would delist the endangered Mexican gray wolf. But critics worry it would doom the species.
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Trucks have been stuck at the closed border since October. Both countries are facing economic losses with no end in sight. The Taliban also banned all Pakistani pharmaceutical imports to Afghanistan. -
With the race still too close to call, former congressman Tom Malinowski conceded to challenger Analilia Mejia in a Democratic primary to replace the seat vacated by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill. -
Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her memoir draws from their records. -
NPR's Rachel Treisman took a pause from watching figure skaters break records to see speed skaters break records. Plus, the surreal experience of watching backflip artist Ilia Malinin. -
The American University of Beirut has long been a haven for cats abandoned in times if war or crisis, but in recent years the feline population has grown dramatically.
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