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Flagstaff scientists and engineers are developing a plan to launch a network of wildfire-detecting satellites into space. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports, 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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Park rangers at Lake Mead National Recreation Area are looking for “two vandalism suspects” after a video of two men damaging rock formations went viral.
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It's the first time Planned Parenthood Arizona has provided abortion care in northern Arizona since 2022 and comes just weeks before a near-total abortion ban goes into effect.
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The nonprofit group American Rivers released its annual list of the country’s most endangered waterways. The rivers of New Mexico top the list.
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Federal water managers recently discovered damage to plumbing inside the dam that holds back Lake Powell. Conservation groups are worried the damage at Glen Canyon Dam could lead to bigger issues for the Colorado River.
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Hundreds gathered last week in Flagstaff to express frustration at the Arizona Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow a Civil War-era abortion ban to take effect.
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Inflation is proving stubborn this year, and the cost of rent may be to blame. Hawaii's attorney general has released the first report into last year's Maui fires.
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"Primrose Hill" is a gently nostalgic ditty by James McCartney, with cowriting credit to Sean Ono Lennon. On Instagram, McCartney said the song was inspired by an idyllic boyhood memory.
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NASA says the space debris that crashed into a home in Naples, Fla., last month was part of a pallet of old batteries jettisoned from the International Space Station three years ago.
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Hawaii's attorney general released the first phase of the investigations into the devastating wildfires on Maui. The fires killed more than 100 people and left thousands homeless.
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House Speaker Johnson is moving forward with foreign aid bills despite threat to oust him. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to GOP Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina about what moderate Republicans want.
Spring warmth is set to persist through the extended forecast.
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