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NASA astronauts practiced moonwalking on the San Francisco Volcanic Fields near Flagstaff over the past week. The training is for the Artemis III mission, which aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon.
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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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New technology will connect teachers at Mohave County schools directly to law enforcement. Schools can then provide real-time information to emergency responders so they can approach critical incidents with the right resources.
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Arizona Rep. Eli Crane was part of a group of House Republicans who showed up at Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York Thursday.
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Several thousand acres of forested land around Flagstaff received prescribed burns in recent weeks. Andi Thode, fire ecologist and director of NAU's Arizona Wildfire Initiative, explains why it’s critical to take advantage of the narrow “burn window” offered by cool, rainy weather this spring.
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Several Flagstaff schools were forced to go into lockdown earlier today following a shooting incident in the city’s Bushmaster Park.
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Republicans who sought to have Arizona’s election procedures manual declared invalid.
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Target said it is trying to help customers save money as well as stay competitive in its markets. Price reductions have already been reflected in about 1,500 products.
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FDIC chairman Martin Gruenberg says he's prepared to step down once a successor is confirmed. Gruenberg has been widely criticized for fostering a toxic workplace at the agency.
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Johansson says she was approached multiple times by OpenAI to be the voice of ChatGPT, and that she declined. Then the company released a voice assistant that sounded uncannily like her.
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Two of the most consequential races in India's elections involve one man: the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi.
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A lot of colleges have cracked down on student protesters. Some have called in police to break up encampments and arresting protesting students. That's created a lot of angry parents.
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Sunny and seasonably warm weather returns through the work week. A prescribed burn in the city of Flagstaff Tuesday on Observatory Mesa may lead to smoke impacts for neighborhoods north of town.
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