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Connecting the past with the future isn’t as easy as comparing apples to apples.But Northern Arizona University researchers are doing just that in an effort to preserve Sedona’s heirloom apple orchards for future generations. And the project is branching out to other campus departments in an interdisciplinary approach to preserving one of the most popular [...]
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Flagstaff man’s conviction for shooting and killing the only Flagstaff police officer to die in the line of duty.
An emotionally charged trial of a Valley man who claimed self-defense when he shot and killed an unarmed man at a county trailhead led to a conviction. [...]
Two police officers who shot and killed a Flagstaff man in August have been cleared of criminal responsibility and returned to duty, Flagstaff’s mayor announced.
Flagstaff Police Officer Shawn Gilleland and Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer William Willis did not commit any criminal violations in the shooting, according to a review by the Yavapai County [...]
Friction between packing materials likely caused last week’s fire at the SCA Tissue plant in Flagstaff. Capt. Mark Johnson from the Flagstaff Fire Department said Thursday that investigators determined that the fire, which occurred late morning on Dec. 20 in the plant’s waste-paper warehouse, was accidentally sparked when baling wire and paper on the large [...]
People usher in the new year with horns, champagne and noisemakers. All well and good, but if you really want to do it right, there’s nothing like lowering a 70-pound, 6-foot-tall, well-lit metallic pinecone.
You might think such a New Year’s Eve breakthrough is recent, given advances in festive technology. But Flagstaff’s annual Pine [...]
Home improvement retailer Home Depot will build a second Flagstaff store, Flagstaff Mall officials announced Wednesday.
Expected to open next fall, the 110,000 square-foot store will be the anchor tenant in a new, 435,000 square-foot retail center adjacent to Flagstaff Mall, both owned by Westcor.
When finished, the mall expansion will double the [...]
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Laura Tohe, an associate professor of English at ASU, grew up listening to stories, so it’s no wonder that she enjoys traveling the state telling tales as a speaker for the Arizona Humanities Council (AHC).For her years of work with the AHC, “telling the stories that help us to understand and relate to each other,†[...]
PHOENIX — With 214 murders by November, Phoenix is on pace to have one of its highest murder tolls in a decade.
But because of its ballooning population, the city’s murder rate remains an average 14.5 per 100,000 people, the same as 2005. It’s about three times the national average.
The number of [...]
The downtown revitalization project may be the perfect microcosm in a study of outgoing City Manager Dave Wilcox’s role in Flagstaff city politics.
Heritage Square, once a vacant parcel of land destined to be a parking lot, has become a vibrant economic beacon in the heart of downtown area, with tourists and shoppers spending their hard-earned [...]
President orders his VP to quit interfering in Desert Rock affair
Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. has directed Vice President Frank Dayish Jr. to “curtail any and all efforts to intervene” in the Desert Rock resistance movement.
“By the authority vested in me as President of [...]
