Felicia Fonseca

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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. ...

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...

$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 ...

Arizona starts talks on addressing dwindling Colorado River

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...