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State of unease: Colorado basin tribes without water rights

Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving into park. Within seconds, he unrolls a fire hose and opens a hydrant, sending water flowing into one of the pla...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. to award $35M in grants to tribes for 988 crisis line

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Most people in Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico know each other. So when a tribal member needs mental health services or help for substance abuse, calling a triba...

DATE: Sep 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Arizona fires sweep land rich with ancient sites, artifacts

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – As Jason Nez scans rugged mountains, high desert and cliffsides for signs of ancient tools and dwellings unique to the U.S. Southwest, he keeps in mind that they're part o...

DATE: Jun 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Summer rainy season sets up across Four Corners

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Some Arizona residents were battered by flooding last year when the summer rainy season known simply as the monsoon unleashed on mountains that have been scorched by flame...

DATE: Jun 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Western wildfires force evacuations in Arizona, California

Smoke from blaze near Flagstaff causes hazy skies in Colorado

DATE: Jun 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Sizzling temperatures in store across southwestern U.S.

Scorching temperatures are in store for the southwestern U.S. over the next several days, with cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas and Palm Springs in California expected to top 110 degrees. Par...

DATE: Jun 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

In a pandemic, Navajo community steps up for its vulnerable

TEESTO, Ariz. – For as long as Raymond Clark has lived alone on this quiet stretch of the Navajo Nation under the watch of the “Praying Mountain,” he has depended on everyone yet no one. ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Winter storms bring relief to parched Arizona, New Mexico

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The precipitation from a series of winter storms in Flagstaff is more than the city had during last summer’s monsoon season, and even more is coming, weather forecasters s...

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Medical officials serving Navajo make urgent plea: Stay home

‘We will run out of beds, we will run out of nurses’

DATE: Dec 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Arizona tribe members settle education claims in lawsuit

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Members of a small Arizona tribe have reached an agreement with the federal government to partly resolve a lawsuit that sought widespread reform in the agency responsible ...

DATE: Oct 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Much of Southwest left parched after monsoon season

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Cities across the U.S. Southwest recorded their driest monsoon season on record this year, some with only a trace or no rain. The seasonal weather pattern that ...

DATE: Oct 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Popular tourist sites on the Navajo Nation can reopen soon

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Popular tourist destinations on the Navajo Nation, including Canyon de Chelly, can welcome back tourists Monday under the tribe’s reopening plan. Much of the Na...

DATE: Aug 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News