Thanks to a Trump Administration executive order, Zinke could rescind or scale down four Arizona national monuments, including the Grand Canyon-Parashant, Ironwood Forest, Sonoran Desert and Vermilion Cliffs.
Nuclear plants reportedly have become a target of cyberattacks, raising questions about security at the large Palo Verde nuclear plant outside of Phoenix.
An extraordinary crew of 20 women find redemption in fighting fires.
Environmental protections for the Mexican wolf, also known as the lobo, could be weaker under a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan for Arizona and New Mexico.
A drone over the Goodwin fire area grounded firefighting aircraft temporarily on Wednesday evening.
The Western Governors’ Association approved a resolution that would hand over much greater authority to the states on listing and protecting endangered species under the 1973 law.
Right now, only three of 16 fires in the state are larger than 10,000 acres. But a fire doesn’t have to be enormous to be deadly or destructive. The 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which killed 19 firefighters and destroyed 129 homes, started as an insignificant lightning strike and grew to an 8,500-acre conflagration.
It would be be a political and legal minefield — but will that stop him?
A Colorado based water conservation group says water rationing could begin next year in Arizona, but one author suggests the state is more conservation-minded and collaborative than most think.
ADEQ is more than halfway through testing lead levels in schools across the state. It found 69 in the Valley with elevated levels, but health officials say there is no risk to children. Creighton Elementary School in Phoenix had five cases above the threshold in drinking water, the most in Maricopa County.
A new climate-change study making headlines this week shows that Phoenix could be among the U.S. areas hardest hit by incoming “climate migrants” as rising seas wipe out coastal real estate. But the study shows that Maricopa County would only receive 100,000 extra people by 2100 — just a tiny bump for the fast-growing region.
Activists are concerned about plans to truck radioactive uranium ore through the reservation
Arizona’s largest public utility agreed on Wednesday to limit a planned rate hike for all customers and grandfather in rates for existing rooftop solar customers .New solar customers would receive similar compensation rates as existing customers.
There are at least 72 mammals, plants, birds and fish in the state that are listed either as “endangered,”or “threatened.” With Donald Trump as president, many in the GOP want to end the protection for them.
The Nuclear Question, Part One: Walking Around Chernobyl After a cold and drizzly morning this past May, the sun is finally out in the Exclusion Zone, the heavily guarded area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. The circular-shaped zone — which has a radius of 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) — is located about 60 miles north of Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine, and about nine miles south of the border with Belarus…
Authorities are asking for the public’s help to locate a suspect who shot three wild Salt River horses on Friday evening, October 21.
Maricopa County officials expect toxic emissions from the $2 billion Solana concentrated-solar plant near Gila Bend to continue despite a record $1.5 million fine for air-quality violations. The fine was the latest embarrassment for the plant, which was was built by Spain’s Abengoa Solar company with loan guarantees from the…
The Solana Generating Station — the large concentrated-solar plant near Gila Bend — was knocked out by a microburst for a few days in late July and won’t generate power normally for months, a new report reveals. The severe problem comes on top of generally poor performance from the $2…
Hickman’s Family Farms’ Tonapah egg ranch stinks — in a literal sense. And that, a group of downwind residents argue, should preclude the farm’s vice president of sales, Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman, from having a say in the county’s air-quality control. Hickman was appointed to the five-member Maricopa County Board of Supervisors…
It’s no secret that Arizona is getting its first swim-with-the-dolphins (SWTD) entertainment center in the very near future, and it’s no secret that the plan is incredibly controversial: Dolphins in the desert?!? Sounds crazy, right? Ever since New Times first wrote about #DolphinFreeAZ, the large and loud movement to stop the Mexican…
The rumblings of Internet rumormongers notwithstanding, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management isn’t gearing up to euthanize 44,000 wild horses and 1,000 burros. But just to make sure, several dozen horse lovers mobbed the agency’s downtown Phoenix office Thursday, trotting a fuzzy stuffed horse up and down Washington Avenue and…
About 600 people gathered in the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza at the Arizona state capitol on Saturday afternoon to show support for those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a controversial project intended to transport oil from North Dakota to a refinery in Illinois that critics say will threaten the…
