BY ADAM WERNICK
More than 300 million tourists visited US national parks in 2015, a 5 percent increase from the previous year. The National Park Service celebrated its 100th birthday last month, and... Read Original Story
BY AARON GRANILLO
A lot of people hike the Grand Canyon because of the scenery or because it’s on their bucket list. Flagstaff author Kevin Fedarko is hiking to raise awareness about environmental... Read Original Story
BY RYAN HEINSIUS
Navajo officials say they’re overwhelmed with public opposition to tribal legislation regarding the Grand Canyon Escalade Project. It would pave the way for a gondola to the... Read Original Story
BY JIM MIMIAGA
Radioactive sludge has been leaking and spilling from trucks delivering mining waste to the White Mesa uranium mill south of Blanding, Utah, according to a report from the Nuclear... Read Original Story
BY RYAN HEINSIUS
Hopi Chairman Herman Honanie says a proposal by Navajo Nation lawmakers to build a gondola to the Colorado River could reignite litigation between the tribes. In a recent letter to... Read Original Story
BY JON KOVASH
Twice a year, the Cameco uranium mine in central Wyoming sends a truckload of a mining byproduct known in the trade as “barium sludge” to the White Mesa uranium mill south of Blanding.... Read Original Story
BY LARRY HENDRICKS
He described a brutal slog.
With just enough energy to blow up his inflatable mattress, Flagstaff writer and journalist Kevin Fedarko said he sat with a 1,000-yard stare and... Read Original Story
BY LARA GALE
For the first time in nearly three decades, the U.S. Forest Service is working to revise its Manti-La Sal National Forest management plan, and it's inviting the public to help shape the... Read Original Story
