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Tacey M. Atsitty is a Diné poet from Cove, Ariz., but grew up in Kirtland, N.M., and reads “A February Snow.” She says the ideas that become poems start from place of quiet and her job is to cultivate the silence and be ready to pay attention when the seeds of a piece start to reveal themselves to her.
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Navajo Nation Vice President Richelle Montoya says she was sexually harassed in a staff meeting at the President and Vice President’s office last year. This is the second sexual misconduct allegation within the office recently.
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The rule from the Bureau of Land Management will allow public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling.
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Arizona became a hotbed of election-related conspiracy theories in 2020 after President Joe Biden won the state by a narrow margin. As artificial intelligence threatens to supercharge the spread of misinformation, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes discusses how his office is responding.
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Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total abortion ban to a vote after the House blocked efforts to undo the long-dormant statute.
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Flagstaff scientists and engineers are developing a plan to launch a network of wildfire-detecting satellites into space. They’re now semifinalists in a global competition.
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The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says Zaynab Joseph was staying with her husband and 1-year-old child in a short-term rental in Sedona. The family was hiking the Bear Mountain Trail when Joseph fell down a 140-foot cliff.
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Attorney General Kris Mayes said doctors can continue to provide abortions under the current 15-week law until early June when a near-total abortion ban will go into effect.
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A memorial site at a Flagstaff cemetery marks the graves of dozens of victims who died when two passenger planes collided in the skies over the Grand Canyon in 1956.
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The most productive aquifer in northern Arizona is named after its main water-bearing rock unit — the Coconino Sandstone. The Coconino Aquifer underlies 27,000 square miles west of Flagstaff and into New Mexico and southern Utah.
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The singer gained stardom after finishing ninth on "American Idol" in 2006. In 2014, she won a Grammy for best contemporary Christian music album for "Overcomer," her fifth album.
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Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the UAW, setting a new trajectory for labor unions in the American South.
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China's feared state security ministry has been more public and more powerful in its quest to suppress internal dissent and monitor foreign activity.
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Under the glare of the lights in New York's Time Square, a Nigerian chess master makes his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous chess game to raise money for children back home.
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Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up in rural Jamaica, he could barely read. When he was about 12, a young teacher-in-training arrived at his school.
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