The most productive aquifer in northern Arizona is named after its main water-bearing rock unit — the Coconino Sandstone. The Coconino Aquifer underlies 27,000 square miles west of Flagstaff and into New Mexico and southern Utah ..read more

Attorney General Kris Mayes said doctors can continue to provide abortions under the current 15-week law until early June when a near-total abortion ban will go into effect ..read more

A memorial site at a Flagstaff cemetery marks the graves of dozens of victims who died when two passenger planes collided in the skies over the Grand Canyon in 1956 ..read more

The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says Zaynab Joseph was staying with her husband and 1-year-old child in a short-term rental in Sedona. The family was hiking the Bear Mountain Trail when Joseph fell down a 140-foot cliff ..read more

The fossil was uncovered during recent excavation work at the Mile-and-a-Half Resthouse near the South Rim as part of the Transcanyon Waterline project. It's been identified as a Equisetalean strobilus ..read more

Law enforcement says they believe one person is responsible for this week’s criminal damage at Bradshaw Mountain High School and the fire of an under-construction apartment complex in Prescott Valley ..read more

Paul J, Babbitt Jr. previously served as the mayor of Flagstaff and a member of the city council as well as a Coconino County supervisor. He died Thursday at age 83 after a battle with cancer ..read more

New Mexico-based poet Elizabeth Jacobson says her entrée into poetry began as a child when she regularly wandered into the woods behind her house. The more time she spent there, the more nature’s curious patterns and wonders revealed themselves to her. And one day she began writing about the subtle marvels she observed in her notebook. She reads her poem "The Sweetness Off Each Other’s Bodies ..read more

An Ohio man who acknowledged making death threats in voicemails left for then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 election season was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison ..read more

No bird species is more closely associated with the ponderosa pine than the pygmy nuthatch. These tiny, highly social birds are year-round residents with white breasts and grey heads and wings ..read more