Havasupai Falls

The National Park Service says they have recovered the body of a Gilbert woman swept away in a flash flood near the Havasupai Reservation in the Grand Canyon.

Grand Canyon National Park officials are looking for a 33-year-old Gilbert woman after they say she was swept into Havasu Creek by flash flooding Thursday.

More than a dozen people are confirmed to have contracted an unnamed gastrointestinal illness on the Havasupai reservation. It follows several recent social media posts saying numerous people were sickened while camping at the tribe’s iconic waterfalls.

Tourists hoping to see world-famous waterfalls on the Havasupai Tribe Reservation in northern Arizona instead went through harrowing flood evacuations when flooding had washed away a bridge to the campground.

The Havasupai Tribe will allow visitors to return to the reservation on Feb. 1 after a nearly three-year halt of tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Joe Biden has approved a disaster declaration made by the Havasupai Tribe in northern Arizona, freeing up funds for flood damage as it prepares to re-open for tourists.

The Havasupai Tribe has approved a resolution to keep visitors off its land through mid-May to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.The tribal council…