Snowboarder rescue tab: $5,000
The snowboarder who was lost on the Peaks Tuesday will not be charged for the search operation that led to his rescue.
Emergency operation centers open on Navajo Nation
Emergency operations are in place on the Navajo Nation after recent storms soaked and muddied the reservation.
Tour de Fat goes flat
The bash of bands, bad [...]
Getting a good grip on ice and packed snow is a perpetual challenge for hikers and trail runners who brave the winter months. I have friends who thread quarter-inch sheet metal screws into their soles, banking on the traction of a dozen inverted Phillips heads biting frozen ground to keep them upright on the trail.
Kahtoola [...]
Award-winning actor B.D. Wong will take the stage at Northern Arizona University during his talk, “All the World’s a Stage: Supporting the Transformation from Exclusion to Inclusion.”
Best known for his portrayal of forensic psychiatrist Dr. George Huang on NBC’s Law and Order Special Victims Unit, Wong will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 28 in Cline [...]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.- Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., announced today that the Navajo Nation has become the first Arizona tribe to auction gaming devices and expects to raise more than $140 million over the next 18 years.
During his quarterly State of the Navajo Nation address to the Navajo Nation Council, the President said Arizona’s [...]
Most local residents can expect to wake up today to a fresh layer of snow from a major winter storm that dumped nearly an inch of rain on Flagstaff Sunday.
Snow accumulations by the time the storm ends tonight could total more than 1 foot.
Police dispatchers in Flagstaff and Sedona reported no major flooding as of [...]
Flagstaff, Ariz. – Every year, PETA receives complaints about dogs who are left outside in the cold. Although they are equipped with fur coats, dogs and other animals can still suffer from frostbite, exposure, and dehydration when water sources freeze. Cold weather spells extra hardship for “backyard” dogs, who often go without adequate food, water, [...]
Search and rescue teams escorted two stranded hikers off Mount Elden early Sunday morning just as storm clouds were moving in.
Gerald Baca of Flagstaff and Tallon Gonzalez of Winslow had gotten off the trail and could not make their way down in the dark, according to a Coconino County Sheriff’s Office press release….
….The sheriff’s office [...]
PHOENIX (AP) – Storms brought rainfall throughout Arizona on Sunday, with more than 2 inches of the wet stuff falling in some parts.
Meteorologist Mike Bruce with the National Weather Service says Phoenix, Prescott, Show Low and Flagstaff got the most rain.
He says the Weather Service has received many reports of normally dry washes running in [...]
First, glass shattered at a restaurant in a Riordan Ranch Street strip mall.
Flagstaff police were on top of the suspects nearly before they knew it.
They chased them across the NAU campus, through the hallways of Embassy Suites, then back across Milton Road.
When the pursuit ended almost half an hour later in the Plaza Vieja neighborhood, [...]
Tribe split over coal plant or renewable energy sources
A group of Navajos released a report Friday that spells out a host of renewable-energy alternatives to a controversial coal-fired power plant proposed for the nation’s largest Indian reservation.
The Navajo Nation’s Dine Power Authority and Houston’s Sithe Global Power have teamed up to build the $3 billion [...]
