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Gallego holds first events of Arizona Senate campaign
Democrat Ruben Gallego held the first public events of his U.S. Senate campaign Saturday, taking aim at independent incumbent Kyrsten Sinema and casting his candidacy in a patriotic appeal to the American dream.
US Senate advances water bills for tribes in Arizona
The U.S. Senate has advanced three bills that would improve access to water for some tribes in Arizona amid an unrelenting drought.
After a year, omicron still driving Covid surges and worries
A year after omicron began its assault on humanity, the ever-morphing Covid mutant drove virus case counts higher in many places just as Americans gathered for Thanksgiving. It was a prelude to a wave that experts expect to soon wash over the U.S.
U.S. has long history of unfairly separating children from parents
The U.S. has a long history of separating children from their parents without regard for parents’ rights or the children’s welfare.
Feds, White Mountain Apaches sign ‘historic’ water-rights deal
The federal government and White Mountain Apache tribe signed a “historic” water-rights agreement Tuesday that the two sides said will guarantee water for the tribe and benefit Phoenix water users as well.
Agreement quantifies Arizona tribe’s water rights
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is set to sign off on an agreement that will fund a water delivery system for the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
Experts say decades of managing tribal forest helped stop Wallow Fire at reservation
For decades, the White Mountain Apache Tribe has cleared young trees, logged larger trees and burned underbrush to replicate the natural burn-and-growth cycle of the Ponderosa pine forest. Jonathan Brooks, tribal forest manager for the tribe, said that made it easy for firefighters to create a backfire here to deprive the approaching Wallow Fire of fuel.
