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Ryan Heinsius/KNAUCoconino National Forest official will implement stage 1 fire restrictions on Thursday, May 21 at 8 a.m. ahead of Memorial Day Weekend. -
Matt Jenkins/NPSThe 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. -
APNorthern Arizona University officials say police are investigating an unconfirmed bomb threat in the area around Ardrey Auditorium Thursday. -
Thomas Peipert/APThe 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. -
Three decades ago, the use of cloud seeding to enhance precipitation over the region was tested as part of a large field experiment. -
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. -
Grand Canyon National Park officials say they've found the body of 26-year-old Sandarsh Krishna who'd been missing since late April. -
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. -
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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President Trump's troop withdrawal threat rattles residents of a small Bavarian town reliant on U.S. military personnel and their families for both income and friendships built over decades. -
Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy was one of seven Republican senators who voted to impeach President Trump. Now he's running for reelection in a race that will test Trump's hold on the GOP. -
Some of the nation's most selective institutions are slowly increasing their rural enrollment with the help of millions of dollars from a rural alumnus of the University of Chicago. -
Trump announced the joint operation in Africa's most populous country in a late-night social media post. He said Abu Bakr al-Mainuki was second in command of the Islamic State group globally. -
The final of the Eurovision Contest arrives Saturday, with tight security and rainy weather failing to dent the enthusiasm of fans, or the opposition of critics who think Israel shouldn't be invited.
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Windy and gradually less warm this weekend. Red Flag Warnings will be in effect region wide both Saturday and Sunday. Sunday night a cold front brushes far northern AZ, there may come a few showers across the Utah border early Monday morning, pre sunrise. Monday will be the coolest day of the forecast behind the front.
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