1+ week, 6+ day ago   (636+ words) Torrential downpours washed out popular hiking trails and left the historic Phantom Ranch Lodge cabins under five feet of water At least two people are dead and 15 others still missing in Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park after flash flooding from…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (154+ words) State and federal officials are actively searching for approximately 15 missing people following a severe flash flood in the Grand Canyon that left at least one person dead, identified as a 46-year-old man recovered near Crystal Rapids. The flood struck Bright…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (580+ words) “Unbelievable” winds have fuelled the fires now spreading across pockets of Greece, after devastating parts of France and Spain. Three firefighters have been killed while battling out-of-control wildfires on Crete and in mainland Greece. More than 220 firefighters have been deployed,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (739+ words) Matt Barrett has seen Lake Powell drop nearly every year since 2013 or so, when he started making annual treks to the reservoir on the Utah-Arizona border. Some very snowy winters helped it rebound quickly, but this year was far from…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (404+ words) Firefighters are battling the blaze from above because the fire is located in steep, inaccessible terrain, parks officials said A wildfire caused by lightning is raging through Grand Canyon National Park, exactly a year after a megafire burned nearly 150,000 acres....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1142+ words) Swiftly marching toward westward expansion, the United States in the 1800s brought with it a tidal wave of displacement and cultural suppression for Native Americans. A century of broken treaties already had spawned distrust of the federal government, and widespread forced…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1258+ words) One of the world's most famous highways marks its centennial this year There are faster ways to get from Chicago to Los Angeles, but none have the allure or cultural cachet of Route 66. To John Steinbeck, it was the Mother…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (364+ words) US metro area population growth rates saw a significant decline in 2025, particularly in communities along the US-Mexico border and Florida's Gulf Coast. - The average growth rate for metro areas dropped from 1.1% in 2024 to 0.6% in 2025, primarily attributed to a slowdown in…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (451+ words) For a week every October, people organizing international catch-ups and meetings on both sides of the Atlantic may be briefly confused: Did I just miss that conference call? Why is my grandmother calling me so early? Most people quickly remember:…...