A nurse who works with patients with high-risk newborns says she wishes the state’s largest utility company would’ve given more notice before the outage so families could charge their medical equipment.
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APS crews repair a broken power pole in east Flagstaff on Wednesday during heavy winds and a power outage that affected 6,000 customers. They can charge phones and get water at the Murdoch Center. Water and ice are available at the Flagstaff Mall, Valle Travel Stop and the Mormon Lake Fire Station.
Arizona Public Service Co. says it could temporarily shut off power in some high-risk communities Wednesday in the Flagstaff area because of heightened wildfire danger.
Officials at Grand Canyon National Park will begin to ease water restrictions Friday as crews make progress repairing breaks in the Transcanyon Waterline.
Arizona Public Service Co. has agreed not to cut off electrical service to customers for nonpayment while forecasted high temperatures are 95 degrees or above.
On this week's Earth Notes ... In recent years a handful of jaguars have appeared on wildlife cameras in the rugged sky islands of Arizona. But not so long ago the rare cats ventured as far north as the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers and rising household electric bills are injecting a wave of attention into who is getting elected to watch over electric utilities.
The SAVE America Act would require voters to prove their citizenship in person to register to vote. But tribal leaders say it would create barriers to voting for Indigenous populations. KNAU speaks with Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley about the proposal.
Hydrologists working high in the Rocky Mountains have measured what they say is Colorado’s driest winter of snow moisture on record.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt by Arizona Republicans to nullify a nearly million-acre national monument near the Grand Canyon.
The Trump administration plans to move the headquarters of the U.S. Forest Service to Salt Lake City as the U.S. Department of Agriculture begins a sweeping restructuring of the agency.
Coconino County health officials are trying to determine who may have been exposed after another resident has tested positive for measles in Page.
Thousands gathered along Route 66 in front of Flagstaff City Hall as part of the nationwide No Kings protests on Sat, March 28. Many protesters say they're anxious and angry about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the war with Iran.
A grand jury in Coconino County has indicted a former Northern Arizona University student after the death of a fraternity pledge in January.
The Flagstaff Police Department and the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for space to station agents in the city.
In this month’s Canyon Commentary, author Scott Thybony takes us into the remote Lukachukai Mountains on the Navajo Nation to explore a 1,500-year-old ruin. Its rock art features hundreds of painted handprints whose full meaning, like so much of the past, has been lost to history.
Yep! It's a prescribed burn. Crews on the Coconino National Forest began the more than 1,400-acre West Fork/Crater Sinks project 13 miles southwest of Flagstaff this morning. Smoke has settled in parts of town and could impact the State Route 89A corridor in the coming days.
The Navajo Nation Council has unanimously passed legislation opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park including the entire North Kaibab Trail will reopen to the public on May 15.
Authorities in northern Arizona say they've made an arrest in a nearly four-decade-old Flagstaff cold case murder.
The Gila County Sheriff’s Office says a 25-year-old man drowned at the Fossil Creek Lower Waterfalls on Sunday.
The United Farm Workers union has distanced itself from annual celebrations of its founder, Cesar Chavez, amid what it said were troubling but unspecified allegations.
For decades, Joy Harjo has challenged what it means to be a poet. The multifaceted author, musician and playwright was the first Indigenous person to serve as U.S. poet laureate.
Managers on the Kaibab National Forest are planning thousands of acres of prescribed burns north of the Grand Canyon that could begin as early as Tuesday.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department released 19 endangered black-footed ferrets at three sites in northern Arizona last week as part of the long-running reintroduction program for the imperiled species.
The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international mining companies is complete, but a group of Apache women is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene as a last-ditch effort to stop the project.