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Much of Southwest parched after monsoon season

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Cities across the U.S. Southwest recorded their driest monsoon season on record this year, some with only a trace or no rain. The seasonal weather pattern that ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Arizona tribe members settle education claims in lawsuit

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Members of a small Arizona tribe have reached an agreement with the federal government to partly resolve a lawsuit that sought widespread reform in the agency responsible ...

DATE: Oct 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Rock fall at Grand Canyon reveals ancient animal footprints

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – It’s something like a modern-day chuckwalla, strolling in sand dunes on an island in what now is the Grand Canyon region. That’s how Steve Rowland, professor em...

DATE: Aug 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Brother of airman charged with murder resolves Arizona case

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The brother of a U.S. Air Force airman charged with murder has entered a plea agreement in a separate but related case that would spare him any time behind bars. ...

DATE: Aug 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Execution of Native American man stirs emotion within tribe

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Late on a fall evening in 2001, Alyce Slim and her granddaughter stopped at a gas station on the Navajo Nation after searching for a traditional healer for leg ailments. ...

DATE: Aug 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Popular tourist sites on the Navajo Nation can reopen soon

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Popular tourist destinations on the Navajo Nation, including Canyon de Chelly, can welcome back tourists Monday under the tribe’s reopening plan. Much of the Na...

DATE: Aug 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

$2M cash-only bond for airman charged with murder in Arizona

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An Arizona court has set bond for a U.S. Air Force airman charged in the fatal shooting of a Sunday school teacher who was living in northwestern New Mexico at $2 million ...

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arizona starts talks on addressing dwindling Colorado River

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. â€“ Arizona is getting a jump-start on what will be a yearslong process to address a dwindling but key water source in the U.S. West. Several states and Mexico re...

DATE: Jun 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Crews on Arizona wildfires contend with wind-driven flames

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Wildfires in Arizona are typical this time of year, but high winds have been a key factor in driving the size of the blazes that are threatening rural communities, state h...

DATE: Jun 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge: U.S. must release $679M in tribal virus relief funds

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The U.S. Treasury Department must release $679 million in coronavirus relief funding for tribes that it intended to withhold while a court challenge over the agency’s init...

DATE: Jun 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Report: Bullet that killed woman fired from airman’s rifle

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A bullet taken from the skull of a woman whose body was discovered in northern Arizona was fired from a rifle owned by an Air Force airman charged in her death, authoritie...

DATE: Jun 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man charged in Mennonite woman’s death grew up in the faith

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – In a forest clearing outside Flagstaff, Arizona, Sasha Krause was found cold and stiff, with a bullet wound to the back of her head. She was face down beneath brush, weari...

DATE: May 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News