RENO, Nev. (AP) — Congress is closer to approving a contentious wild horse initiative backed by national animal welfare groups and the livestock industry but condemned by leaders of the largest and oldest coalition of mustang advocates in the West. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved $35 million last week for […]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Heavy-lift helicopters are being used to drop water on a wildfire burning in a remote area of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and an adjacent national forest. Officials say the fire started July 25 by lightning has become more active recently […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An environmental group is seeking to limit the scope of a court order that bans tree cutting across national forests in New Mexico and one in Arizona. U.S. District Judge Raner Collins earlier this month sidelined timber management projects on the forests until federal agencies can […]
LECHEE, Ariz. (AP) — One of three generating units at a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation has closed. The 2,250-megawatt Navajo Generating Station near Page is scheduled to completely shut down before the end of the year. It’s run by the Phoenix-based utility, the Salt River Project. Utility […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Northern Arizona is experiencing a decline in Boy Scouts of America troops prior to an anticipated split between the organization and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Arizona Daily Sun reported June 9 that the region is expected to lose more than 1,800 […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a Utah man sought in an alleged sex crime involving a juvenile is dead after his car plunged into a river in a northwestern Arizona gorge. Bart Graves with the Arizona Department of Public Safety said Monday that Guadalupe Guillermo Nunez intentionally exited […]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — The National Park Service plans to partially replace and shorten the frequently broken 50-year-old pipeline that supplies water to the Grand Canyon National Park hotels, campgrounds, staff housing and other facilities on the South Rim. An announcement Wednesday said the newly approved plan […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Arizona county has approved an investigation to determine if voter fraud occurred during last year’s election where a polygamous sect kept control of a town council in a community on the Arizona-Utah border The Mohave County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to spend […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon President Russell M. Nelson is scheduled to deliver a devotional speech to 68,000 Mormons Sunday near Phoenix at the stadium where the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals play. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says in a news release that Nelson will speak about […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Thursday, Utah men’s basketball returns to the Huntsman Center to host Washington after splitting on an Arizona road trip last week to commence Pac-12 conference play. This will be followed by a Saturday home game against Washington State. The Utes come into Thursday’s game at 7-7 and 1-1 […]
