Shelley Smithson

A documentary airing on public television stations around the country this month will feature a team of researchers from Northern Arizona University.

Their pioneering work is changing the way scientists understand relationships in nature. 

Arizona’s controversial immigration law could go into effect soon now that the Supreme Court has upheld parts of Senate Bill 1070.

And that has many undocumented immigrants in Northern Arizona feeling anxious.

But some health-care providers in Flagstaff are also worried.

They’re concerned the law could keep immigrants away from the doctor’s office and jeopardize public health.

Doctors are treating a Northern Arizona University student for a suspected case of tuberculosis.

Ten other students who were in close contact with the student are also being tested for TB.

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that usually attacks the lungs.

The university health center says the student was enrolled in a summer intensive English language program that is offered to international students.  

TB is not spread by touch or by kissing or sharing eating utensils.

Lowell Observatory celebrated the completion of a risky journey Saturday with a special guest, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

Lowell Observatory board member John Giovale quoted Neil Armstrong as he described why the observatory sought to build a $53 million state-of-the-art telescope.

“After a Nobel laureate in physics advised John F. Kennedy that we shouldn’t go to the moon, Neil is quoted as saying, ‘there can be no great accomplishment without risk.’”

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, capped Lowell Observatory’s celebration of its newest telescope Saturday in Flagstaff.

Most Americans old enough to remember can tell you where they were and what they were doing the moment Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

At a gala for Lowell Observatory Saturday, guests were once again transfixed as they heard the American legend recap his harrowing lunar expedition 43 years ago.    

Hopi lawmakers narrowly endorsed a controversial water settlement today, the latest in a heated dispute over the future of the Little Colorado River.

Hopi Chairman LeRoy Shingoitewa broke a tie in favor of the water agreement, which will settle Hopi and Navajo claims to the Little Colorado.

He says the settlement will manage the Navajo aquifer, the Hopis current source of water.

Another contentious meeting over water is planned on the Hopi Reservation Thursday.

The Little Colorado River settlement was supposed to settle claims by the Hopi and Navajo over the muddy tributary that both tribes historically used. 

Instead it has caused a schism on both reservations that is near a boiling point.

Part of the opposition is because Arizona’s U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl introduced the water settlement in the Senate before lawmakers in either tribe had presented it to their people or voted on it.