Attorney General Kris Mayes will continue to pursue the 11 Republicans who falsely claimed to be the state’s legally elected electors during the 2020 presidential race.

The cost of wildfire recovery on public lands mostly falls to agencies like the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service. Several western U.S. senators have requested more federal help after a devastating fire year.

The small town is known for its polygamist history under the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A recent measles outbreak marks Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah again.

Arizona will provide billions in taxpayer money to help fund several new initiatives aimed at providing alternate drinking water sources for the state.

The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says a man was rescued and another man remains missing after a flash flood in Cordes Lakes Tuesday afternoon.

Former Republican lawmaker Austin Cole Smith pleaded guilty to criminal charges for forging signatures on nominating petitions during his 2024 campaign.

Hopi voters this week overwhelmingly elected Lamar Keevama as their new chairman. It's the first time in eight years that the tribe will have new leadership.

Grand Canyon National Park officials will close the North Rim for the season Friday afternoon ahead of possible snow.

Coconino County health officials are warning those who visited the Flagstaff Mall last Thursday that they may have been exposed to measles.

Officials in Mohave County say a 65-year-old man slipped and fell 130 feet to his death last week in the western portion of the Grand Canyon.

Since 2021 Flagstaff photographer Dawn Kish has been documenting the reemerging Glen Canyon as the water levels at Lake Powell have dropped. She was inspired by Tad Nichols who photographed the canyon in the 1950s before it was dammed.

Fire managers throughout northern Arizona conducted numerous prescribed burns Tuesday, creating visible smoke that impacted Flagstaff and other local communities.

The Trump administration is initiating formal meetings with tribes in the Southwest as it considers revoking a 20-year ban of oil and gas development across of hundreds of square miles of federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

The Environmental Protection Agency has begun the cleanup of uranium mine waste in the Lukachukai Mountains near Four Corners on the Navajo Nation.

Wells Spicer was a frontier lawyer who led a grueling expedition in the Grand Canyon and also happened to play pivotal roles in two most famous court cases in the American West. Scott Thybony tells his story in this month's Canyon Commentary.

Gov. Katie Hobbs is allocating $1.8 million left over from federal COVID funds to provide at least some help to the nearly 900,000 Arizonans who won’t be getting food stamp benefits in November.

A man from Flagstaff and another man from Canada were injured in a lightning strike Wednesday near the summit of Humphreys Peak near Flagstaff.

On Monday Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren submitted his state of the nation address in written form, marking the fifth time he did not deliver the speech in person to tribal lawmakers.

Multiple chapters on the Navajo Nation were impacted by recent flooding from a tropical storm that caused dams to fail and cut off access to homes and farmlands for residents.

AI-powered cameras are the newest thing in fire detection on Arizona’s Coconino National Forest. Some greet the technology with optimism. But others worry about the future of the human fire lookouts who have kept watch for decades.

Four people have died after heavy rain caused flooding in central Arizona including three in the rural 19th-century mining town of Globe where floodwaters forced people to seek safety on their rooftops.

Crews have now fully contained the Dragon Bravo Fire nearly three months after it was ignited by lightning near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

The first white explorer to descend the Colorado River through Grand Canyon published an account of his journey 150 years ago. In this month’s Canyon Commentary Scott Thybony travels to the Vermillion Cliffs to see if he can match the view.

The Dragon Fire that started on July 4 is now all but extinguished. But the 145,000-acre blaze has had significant impacts on local economies and questions remain about its initial management.

Officials at Grand Canyon National Park will reopen two popular North Rim viewpoints next week that were closed because of the Dragon Bravo Fire.

PRESCRIBED BURN: The Flagstaff Fire Department began a 15-acre prescribed burn Thursday morning on Observatory Mesa to reduce wildfire risk in the area. A smoke plume is visible from much of Flagstaff. (Image from the Mt. Elden Lookout camera, 10:30 a.m.)

President Donald Trump has vowed to do away with voting by mail, but some of his Republican allies in battleground Arizona are taking a more cautious approach.

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar has introduced bills in the U.S. House that would rescind the designations of two Arizona national monuments, including the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni–Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

The Timber Mesa Fire and Medical District in Show Low has identified two firefighters killed Sunday in an ambulance crash as 31-year-old Brenna Kulikowski and 21-year-old Damon Thompson. Thompson was 15 days from finishing his first year with the district.

Tucson cyclist Matthew Riccitello is joining the French Decathlon CMA CGM team with big ambitions in 2026.

Two firefighters and a third person were killed in a head-on crash on State Route 260 between Show Low and Heber-Overgaard Sunday night.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to cancel a public land management rule that sought to put conservation on equal footing with industry.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with All Things Considered host Ailsa Chang. She's a true believer in public radio’s ability to create enlightening and passionately crafted stories and of its importance in American civic life.

A woman from the Valley died over the Labor Day Weekend after she fell off a 120-foot cliff along the Mogollon Rim near Forest Lakes at night.

Scientists have finished assessing how the 145,000-acre Dragon Bravo Fire impacted the environment. Almost a third of the area suffered moderate and high burn severity. KNAU speaks with the leader of the Burned Area Emergency Response team.

A 32-year-old man who grew up in Flagstaff has died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His family says he hadn’t received adequate medical care while in detention.

Kaibab National Forest officials have reopened 77,000 acres north of the Grand Canyon that was closed last month because of the White Sage and Dragon Bravo fires.

American culture was obsessed with Martians in the early 1900s. In a new book, bestselling author David Baron explains how this “alien craze” started with one astronomer in Flagstaff.

Two environmental groups worry that as drought causes Lake Powell's levels to drop infrastructure at Glen Canyon Dam could threaten water deliveries downstream.

Grand Canyon National Park officials have reopened sections of the South Kaibab, Bright Angel and Tonto trails that were closed after the Dragon Bravo Fire exploded in size last month.

Officials with the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs say a wildfire that started last week at Camp Navajo west of Flagstaff is burning in an area that contains "conventional unexploded ordnance."

Attorney General Kris Mayes says tens of thousands of Arizona voters who never provided proof of citizenship cannot be kicked off the registration rolls.

The Gila County Division of Emergency Management has ordered evacuations for three communities near the lightning-caused Washington Fire about 11 miles north of Payson.

The Radio Television Digital News Association has honored KNAU with an excellence in writing National Edward R. Murrow award for a story about the 80th birthday of Smokey Bear.

The U.S. Department of Justice has published guidelines for those who plan to apply for the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act after it was renewed and expanded in July.

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office has placed some residents east of State Route 179 in Set pre-evacuation status because of a wildfire first reported Wednesday afternoon.

Coconino County officials have implemented stage 2 fire restrictions on Tusayan and North Kaibab districts of the Kaibab National Forest.

Managers on the Dragon Bravo Fire have declared a significant portion of the eastern edge of the blaze contained as it has topped 132,000 acres.

The Navajo Nation Council has removed Heather Clah as the tribe's attorney general only two weeks after lawmakers confirmed her to the post.

Kaibab National Forest managers will reopen some areas that were closed because of the White Sage and Dragon Bravo Fires, while implementing heightened stage 2 fire restrictions.