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KUYI Hopi RadioHopi voters this week overwhelmingly elected Lamar Keevama as their new chairman. It's the first time in eight years that the tribe will have new leadership. -
Cheyanne Mumphrey / AP/APThe parents of a Flagstaff baby sickened in an infantile botulism outbreak are suing the makers of the ByHeart baby formula at the heart of a nationwide recall. -
Christopher Boswell/Adobe StockFlagstaff housing officials have created a map showing the city’s 990 registered short-term rentals. It provides residents with information about the properties located in local neighborhoods. -
C. Dubin/NPSGrand Canyon National Park officials will close the North Rim for the season Friday afternoon ahead of possible snow.
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Coconino County health officials are warning those who visited the Flagstaff Mall last Thursday that they may have been exposed to measles. -
Negotiators missed a deadline to reach an agreement on Colorado River allocations, spurring a bipartisan call to action from Arizona leaders to the U.S. Department of the Interior. -
The Clovis people hunted mammoths and other Ice Age giants more than 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists are uncovering what happened when those animals disappeared. -
Officials in Mohave County say a 65-year-old man slipped and fell 130 feet to his death last week in the western portion of the Grand Canyon. -
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year. -
Since 2021 Flagstaff photographer Dawn Kish has been documenting the reemerging Glen Canyon as the water levels at Lake Powell have dropped. She was inspired by Tad Nichols who photographed the canyon in the 1950s before it was dammed.
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Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard patrols their ancestral land armed with spears, machetes and a drone — risking their lives to keep cocaine producers out of the forest. -
Iran's foreign minister on Sunday said that Tehran is no longer enriching uranium at any site in the country. -
Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in the capital in the largest rally so far to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal that has implicated powerful members of Congress and top government officials. -
NPR Veterans Correspondent Quil Lawrence interviewed Dave Carlson over 10 years, as the Iraq war vet went from war to incarceration to redemption on his long journey home. -
President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents.
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The mild fall weather has been lovely while it has lasted. We now take a turn toward cold, wet, autumn weather this weekend as the first in a series of storms impacts the region. Saturday rain will enter western AZ through a cool afternoon, then spread region wide Saturday night into a sharply colder Sunday. Snow will mix with rain around the Flagstaff region Sunday, with no accumulation, though high mountain peaks looking at up to a foot of fresh snow. Another storm will quickly follow next Tuesday and Wednesday, stay tuned.
