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Much of Southwest left 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 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local 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: Local 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: Local News

Treasury withholding $679M in virus relief funds for tribes

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The U.S. Treasury Department is withholding $679 million in coronavirus relief funding for tribes while a challenge over its initial round of payments to tribal government...

DATE: Jun 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

First FBI poster in Navajo language seeks info on homicide

The FBI has issued its first poster in a Native American language, seeking information in Navajo on the death of an elderly man six years ago on the New Mexico portion of the vast Navajo Nat...

DATE: Apr 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Navajo look to Arizona utilities to make up for coal losses

2 coal-powered plants already shuttered; two more by 2031

DATE: Feb 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Window opens for tribes to seek licenses for internet access

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The Federal Communications Commission opened a window Monday for federally recognized tribes to apply for licenses that could help establish or expand internet access on t...

DATE: Feb 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Endangered fish on upswing in Colorado River basin

Humpback chub populations stabilizing

DATE: Jan 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Proposal seeks to modernize campgrounds at national parks

<span class="Drop cap"> </span><span class="Drop cap">Panel looking for ways to put businesses on public land </span>

DATE: Nov 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Trump honors Native Americans, U.S. founders in same month

Historically, Natives have had the month to themselves

DATE: Nov 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

California tribe regains island it calls center of universe

Island contained massacre site, contaminated by shipyard

DATE: Oct 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wet winter doesn’t end climate change risk to Colorado River

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Snow swamped mountains across the U.S. West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and largely making wi...

DATE: Aug 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News