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The North Rim of the Grand Canyon reopened Friday eight months after the Dragon Bravo Fire burned 145,000 acres and destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge.
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Northern Arizona University officials say police are investigating an unconfirmed bomb threat in the area around Ardrey Auditorium Thursday.
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The sole person charged in the 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay received a five-year federal prison sentence. The unsolved case underscores the disproportionate violence Native Americans face.
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A new federal report lists numerous problems miners face in receiving benefits. A former coal miner and advocate on the Navajo Nation says the issues it raises aren’t new to him.
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Three decades ago, the use of cloud seeding to enhance precipitation over the region was tested as part of a large field experiment.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development as part of President Donald Trump's attempt to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.
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Grand Canyon National Park officials say they've found the body of 26-year-old Sandarsh Krishna who'd been missing since late April.
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A federal hydrologist appeared to be momentarily at a loss for words Thursday as he described how dire the latest forecast has gotten for how much water will flow through the Colorado River Basin this summer.
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A uranium ore truck headed from the Pinyon Plain Mine to Utah crashed on the Navajo Nation near Shonto Wednesday. Officials say no radiation leak was detected.
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Moon trees are descendants of the seeds astronaut Stuart Roosa brought with him on Apollo 14 in the 1970s. U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly helped Lowell dedicate a tree on May 5.
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The hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has potentially exposed passengers to a deadly disease. Most returning Americans are now housed in Nebraska. Some may be cleared to quarantine at home.
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FIFA's official 2026 World Cup song is "Dai Dai" from Shakira and Burna Boy. There are a number of factors that shape which songs define a tournament — and endure beyond it.
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The event comes as a new survey finds that many Americans aren't comfortable mixing religion and politics.
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It was the second time in a year a jury was unable to reach a verdict on a rape charge brought by Jessica Mann.
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In 2025, the Trump administration began dismantling the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the funding that was distributed around the world plummeted.
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Sunny, warm and relatively calm on Friday, high temperatures running around 10 degrees above average for this time of year. Expect a windy and gradually cooler weekend ahead.
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