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A federal appeals court has blocked a bid by Rosemont Copper Co. to dig a 6,500-foot wide open pit mine about 30 miles southeast of Tucson.

CAMP VERDE – "I'm not used to being broken, I'm used to getting up and being able to dust myself off and move to the next thing, but now I can't," Yavapai-Apache Police Sgt. Preston Brogdon said at a press conference April 19.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Stories about long-departed Las Vegas organized crime figures are surfacing after a second set of unidentified human remains were revealed as the water level falls on drought-stricken Lake Mead.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The body found inside a barrel on the newly exposed bottom of Lake Mead after the lake's level was depleted amid drought is that of a man who was shot, police said May 3.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The Antelope Fire grew to approximately 372 acres May 3 as wind spread it across a grassy landscape located 12 miles north of Sunset Crater near milepost 442 on the east side of U.S. Highway 89.

WILLIAMS, Ariz. — Despite extreme winds May 1, firefighter lines held on the Crooks Fire, located south of Prescott, while firefighters on the Tunnel Fire continued with mop up work.

In Phoenix, federal labor officials allege that Starbucks retaliated after it learned of employees there seeking to unionize.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, whose tenure has been dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, is seeking a second term in office.

The meetings are part of the public outreach being done by the U.S. Interior Department as it considers the withdrawal from nearly 550 square miles around Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

The federal government has finished another environmental review of a proposed transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity from rural New Mexico to big cities in the West.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation April 25 that prohibits government agencies from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations and bars schools from mandating masks for students under age 18 unless their parents approve.

As the Crooks Fire entered its eighth day April 26, flames had spread to about 6,454 acres, driven by terrain-driven winds that pushed the blaze farther south and west,

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As of April 16, the fire had burned 9.6 square miles of timber and brush.

WILLIAMS, Ariz. — The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising drivers, area residents and businesses that work is beginning on the SR 89A Oak Creek Canyon Improvements on April 18.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Drivers traveling along I-40 west of Flagstaff need to be prepared for restrictions at A-1 Mountain Road in west Flagstaff and Exit 123 at Seligman as the Arizona Department of Transportation starts bridge rehabilitation projects.

WILLIAMS, Ariz. — Although Barnes & Noble lost its location from its Old Route 66 and Milton Road location in March, the bookstore has found a temporary home at the Flagstaff Mall.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Coconino County, in partnership with Friends of Coconino County Parks, the city of Flagstaff, Flagstaff Parks, Recreation and Open Space, and the U.S. Forest Service are partnering to facilitate three cleanup events.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Coconino National Forest firefighters responded to the Cochrane Fire, 4.5 miles east of Doney Park near Flagstaff April 16.

CAMP VERDE, Ariz. — Yavapai-Apache Police Sgt. Preston Brogdon received a warm welcome home April 12 after he was released from a physical rehab facility in Chandler earlier the same day.

BOSTON (AP) — Jacky Hunt-Broersma runs like a woman possessed. And in a way, she is: The amputee athlete is trying to run at least 102 marathons in 102 days.

GOLDEN VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man faces animal cruelty charges after 183 dead dogs, rabbits, birds and other animals were found in a freezer, including some that were apparently frozen while alive, officials said.

U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema called April 12 for increasing domestic oil drilling to make up for the loss of Russian imports that has contributed to high prices at the gas pump.

The gridlock is the fallout of an initiative that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says is needed to curb human trafficking and the flow of drugs.

A wind-driven wildfire swept through neighborhoods in a mountain community in drought-stricken south-central New Mexico, burning at least 150 structures and forcing the evacuations of schools with 1,700 students.