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Southwest Area Incident Management Team 3Crews have been trying to take advantage of calmer conditions as they fight the 12,600-acre Greer Fire in the White Mountains ahead of near critical fire expected over the weekend. -
Dr. Tom Myers has worked as a physician on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon since 1990, and he knows all the ways people can get into trouble on a difficult hike. In fact, he co-authored the book Death in Grand Canyon. But that didn’t stop him from completing an epic journey on foot down the canyon’s entire length. His new book is The Grandest Trek. -
Video still/Prescott Police DepartmentA grand jury indicted former Prescott police officer Brian Sutton on one count of manslaughter in the 2024 shooting of Daniel Leslie, who was unarmed. -
Adrian Skabelund / KNAUThe population of endangered Mexican gray wolves has grown for nine years in a row, but conservation groups say the program is running out of time to address important genetic challenges.
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Northern Arizona Healthcare’s Breast Care Clinic in Sedona has regained its national accreditation after losing it in 2023. -
Tribal leaders told lawmakers in the U.S. House that the administration’s “chainsaw approach” to government cuts will disproportionately harm Indian Country. -
The federal funding freeze, despite being temporarily stayed by courts, has blocked promised grant money from reaching small business owners in Arizona. -
The Trump administration plans to shutter two National Park Service offices in Flagstaff later this year as part of cost-cutting initiatives that have targeted 2 million square feet of federal office space throughout the country. -
In the summer of 2023, what seemed like tiny aliens turned up at the Wupatki National Monument. A visitor told park staff that tadpoles were wriggling about in a pool of standing water that had flooded the Ancestral Puebloan ballcourt. -
Coconino National Forest employees were among the thousands of federal workers recently laid off by the Trump administration. Three now-former federal workers shared their stories with KNAU.
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President Trump has threatened to pull federal funding from Maine's public schools after a clash with the state's governor. NPR visited a rural school in Maine to see what's at stake.
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Despite tariffs that went up and down, April's inflation numbers were calm. NPR's A Martinez talks with Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, about why.
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Major League Baseball has lifted its lifetime ban on Pete Rose, 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson and 15 other deceased players, clearing the way for their eligibility for the Hall of Fame.
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President Trump is expected to meet with Syria's new leader during his visit to Saudi Arabia. The meeting comes on the heels of Trump saying he will lift decades of U.S. sanctions on Syria.
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An aviation analyst says accepting a Qatari plane could possibly burden the government by utilizing more time and resources in order to ensure the president's safety.
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Windy Saturday as a spring storm drops into the Great Basin (The NWS has issued a Wind Advisory for Mohave County and a Red Flag Warning for the Little Colorado River Valley). The region then turns cooler Sunday and Monday. Rain showers develop across northern AZ Saturday night into Sunday morning and then eastern AZ Monday. Warm weather quickly returns Tuesday through the remainder of next week.
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