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Navajo president bans candy at parade

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Thousands of people will line a highway on the Navajo Nation on Saturday for the largest Native American fair parade in the country. But children gripping grocery bags, pi...

DATE: Sep 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

People across Southwest long for seasonal rainstorms

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Across the Southwest, people are longing for seasonal rainstorms like a lost summer romance. They’re declaring their love online for the weather pattern that ma...

DATE: Aug 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Climate change still threatens Colorado River after wet winter

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Snow piled up in the 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 m...

DATE: Aug 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Arizona, Nevada cuts to Colorado River water negligible

ALBUQUERQUE – Arizona and Nevada will face their first-ever cuts in Colorado River water next year, but the changes aren’t expected to be overly burdensome for either state. The w...

DATE: Aug 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional 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 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arizona residents watch, worry as mountain burns

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Anxious residents packed up prized possessions Tuesday as hundreds of firefighters worked to keep a wildfire in a forested Arizona city away from homes while they got help...

DATE: Jul 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Hospitals put Native Americans at opioid risk, audit says

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – U.S. government hospitals placed Native American patients at increased risk for opioid abuse and overdoses, failing to follow their own protocols for prescribing and dispe...

DATE: Jul 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Navajo Nation cancer center cuts patients’ travel time

TUBA CITY, Ariz. – Colon cancer took a heavy toll on Loren McCabe’s family. His great-grandmother was diagnosed too late to fight it. His grandfather didn’t want to travel for tre...

DATE: Jun 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Coming home: Navajos to get copy of treaty that ended imprisonment

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A 150-year-old document that allowed Navajos to return to their homeland in the Four Corners where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado meet is destined for a permanent ...

DATE: May 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

No longer in the dark: Navajo Nation homes get electricity

KAIBETO, Ariz. – Miranda Haskie sits amid the glow of candles at her kitchen table as the sun sinks into a deep blue horizon silhouetting juniper trees and a nearby mesa. Her husb...

DATE: May 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tribes across country push for better internet access

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – In a remote, roadless Arizona canyon that is home to a small Native American tribe, there’s a natural skepticism toward the internet. The telemedicine equipment...

DATE: May 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Blame social media for parking fee at river overlook

Local Arizona spot grows exponentially in its popularity

DATE: May 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel