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Wildlife officers with the Arizona Game and Fish Department euthanized one of two mountain lions repeatedly seen in an eastern Prescott neighborhood.
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The Flagstaff City Council opted not to move forward with requests to take an official stance on the ongoing war in Gaza. The discussion was prompted by two competing citizen petitions.
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The ringtail can be tricky to see. They're the smaller cousins to raccoons and live in rocky habitats across the Southwest. With large rounded eyes and ears, they’re exceptionally well adapted for their elusive, nocturnal lifestyle.
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Forest officials say heavy smoke is likely on Lake Mary Road near Flagstaff as crews begin ignitions on a lightning-caused wildfire they'll use to treat thousands of acres.
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The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona is fortifying how they handle cases involving missing or murdered Indigenous peoples.
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People gathered across the U.S. on Sunday for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. It's intended to spotlight the high rate of disappearances and killings in Native American communities.
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for the women working to ensure the 19th century law remains in the past.
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Former Taos, N.M., poet laureate Sawnie Morris says as a young girl poetry showed her how events and objects were connected in curious ways. In the latest installment of PoetrySnaps!, she reads her piece called “After the Late-Winter Car Trip.”
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The federal government is spending billions to support semiconductor manufacturing. But trainees seeking chipmaking jobs may have to wait.
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The Coconino National Forest’s Mogollon Rim Ranger District will manage a lightning-caused wildfire that sparked earlier this week in an area already scheduled for a prescribed burn.
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The Baltimore County Police Department confirmed the identity of the sixth victim, 37-year-old José Mynor López, after salvage teams located his body Tuesday.
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Some governments have been cracking down on the knives people can carry in public as crime has increased. Victorinox said any bladeless offerings wouldn't replace its selection of Swiss Army Knives.
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When it comes to Black Twitter, filmmaker Prentice Penny says "no one is above being joked on." His Hulu docuseries charts the voices and movements that made it a force in politics and culture.
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The Gaza Strip's Rafah border crossing with Egypt has been a key lifeline for people in the Palestinian enclave. Here is a timeline of events since Oct. 7, 2023, leading up to Israel's offensive.
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New medications like Wegovy are changing the way people lose weight and manage obesity, but many Medicaid beneficiaries can't get them.
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Sunny and mild afternoons are forecast through the remainder of the work week. Warmer weather settles in for the (graduation/Mother Day) weekend ahead.
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