BY MEAD GRUVER
A uranium mining company has agreed to corrective measures after two spills of radioactive sludge, the most recent on March 29 when some of the material from a Wyoming mine leaked from... Read Original Story
BY BRANDON LOOMIS
A controversial plan to develop tourist attractions including a tram into the Grand Canyon will have its hearing before Navajo Nation lawmakers.
A Navajo Council member introduced... Read Original Story
BY TIM WALKER
Coleen Kaska points over the South Rim of the Grand Canyon towards the rocks and scrub below, where a dark shadow marks the entrance to the old Orphan Mine. “There’s a big old hole down... Read Original Story
BY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
President Obama seems most comfortable outside on an 18-hole golf course, not hunting bear in Colorado, as Theodore Roosevelt did while president in 1905, or deep-sea fishing for... Read Original Story
BY EMERY COWAN
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has completed drafts of new, more stringent air quality permits for three uranium mines near the Grand Canyon and the agency will hold a... Read Original Story
BY MIRIAM WASSER
Whether you're concerned about the impact uranium mining has on the air quality of the Grand Canyon or think the issue has been blown way out of proportion, you have one week left to... Read Original Story
BY EMERY COWAN
For the National Park Service centennial this year, Flagstaff journalist and author Kevin Fedarko explored the Grand Canyon in a way that few have done before.
Fedarko and photographer... Read Original Story
On Aug. 15, environmental groups asked the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) to deny air permits for three uranium mines near Grand Canyon and to continue monitoring an inactive mine... Read Original Story
