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11:00 am 11th Annual Flagstaff Hullabaloo... @ Wheeler Park
11th Annual Flagstaff Hullabaloo... @ Wheeler Park 
Jun 7 @ 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Flagstaff Hullabaloo will take place Saturday June 6th 10am-9pm and Sunday June 7th 11am-6pm at Wheeler Park. Hullabaloo has been voted Best Flagstaff Festival SIX TIMES and has raised over $120,000 for local non-profits since 2010!...
Aug
22
Sat
10:00 am 11th Annual Flagstaff Hullabaloo... @ Wheeler Park
11th Annual Flagstaff Hullabaloo... @ Wheeler Park
Aug 22 @ 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Flagstaff Hullabaloo will take place Saturday June 6th 10am-9pm and Sunday June 7th 11am-6pm at Wheeler Park. Hullabaloo has been voted Best Flagstaff Festival SIX TIMES and has raised over $120,000 for local non-profits since 2010!...
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[caption id="attachment_10348" align="aligncenter" width="955"] A bear and her cubs in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. (Photo: Rich Miller/Flickr/cc)[/caption] "Killing...
[caption id="attachment_10232" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Spring Valley, Nevada, an area that would've been affected by Southern Nevada Water Authority’s proposed pipeline...
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Collecting data on invasive plants, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, California. Connar L'Ecuyer/NPS by Richard B. Primack, Boston...
"This has the potential to be a major environmental disaster." by Eoin Higgins, staff writer Wednesday, May 20, 10 AM...
[caption id="attachment_10045" align="aligncenter" width="669"] The coronavirus crisis has brought "the machine of capitalism... to a halt," said Arundhati Roy. (Image:...
by Alexandra Tempus May 7, 2020 In 2002, Utah was reeling from four years of dry conditions that turned the...
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'Not Today. Not Tomorrow. Not Ever' [caption id="attachment_9575" align="alignright" width="338"] Indigenous advocates posted a "virtual banner" on social media to...
"Bolsonaro is not only turning a blind eye as land grabbers, illegal loggers, and miners continue to plunder Indigenous territories...
[caption id="attachment_9403" align="alignright" width="189"] Diesel emissions are a major source of fine particle pollution.[/caption] Diesel emissions are a major source...
The ousting of "America's #1 climate denier" from the leadership position on the board of the largest global lender of...
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April 28, 2020 Flagstaff, Ariz. The Grand Canyon Trust reports serious problems at the Canyon Mine uranium mine south of...
Harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie, Sept. 4, 2009. NOAA/Flickr by Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI and Joseph D. Ortiz, Kent State...
Clean water is essential during the COVID-19 health crisis, but so far Congress hasn’t directed funds to help water utilities...
Source: the journal Science "We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say...
Saturday, March 14 The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York approved a consent decree between the...
[caption id="attachment_6960" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] San Pedro River Little Boquillas Ranch Arizona 2015[/caption] By Meteor Staff Saturday, March 14, 2020 Flagstaff...
While some municipalities with only a few cases of the coronavirus have stopped disconnecting water service for residents with overdue...
By Meteor Staff Flagstaff The Environmental Protection Agency issued revised methods for assessing pesticide risks yesterday that could allow...
By Anna V. Smith/ High Country News March 10, 2020 The Colorado River Basin is the setting for some of...
“Am I the only Indigenous person in the room right now?” asked Angelo Baca, a Navajo and Hopi resident of...
"These ecosystem modifications directly affect organisms on land and in the water downstream. Every decision to allow a mine to...
Recently, a number of gas stations have disappeared from Flagstaff. A couple have been replaced but the rest appear to...
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Democratic congressional leaders expressed alarm at the sudden acceleration and requested the government “cease this practice immediately.” by Lomi Kriel...
Their father was missing. Their mother was miles away. Two sisters, ages 8 and 11, were survivors of sexual assault...
Each person who has died of COVID-19 was somebody’s everything. Even as we mourn for those we knew, cry for...
New information from the Indian Health Service calls into question why the agency purchased expensive medical gear that it now...
The Trump administration has promised at least $1.8 billion to 335 first-time contractors, often without competitive bidding or thorough vetting...
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The Health Department received a complaint that a Nike warehouse wasn’t being cleaned thoroughly or allowing for social distancing. Its...
You never planned on raising kids during a pandemic, and there are no easy decisions. ProPublica scoured the latest research...
Zach Fuentes, former deputy chief of staff to President Trump, won the contract just days after registering his company. He...
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The CARES Act temporarily protects millions of renters from being evicted, and many states and cities passed their own rules...
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The two private jet companies are among the first 96 airline companies disclosed as recipients of taxpayer funds under the...
Securities that contain loans for properties like hotels and office buildings have inflated profits, the whistleblower claims. As the pandemic...
A lobbying campaign driven by scarcity pushed the CDC to relax protective gear guidelines. Now tens of thousands of health...
William Barr’s DOJ inadvertently named Saudi official Musaed al-Jarrah in a court filing after trying for two years to conceal...
Coronavirus infections continue to rise at migrant detention facilities in towns with limited resources. Some local governments want details on...
The economy is in free fall but Wall Street is thriving, and stocks of big private equity firms are soaring...
Crowds of mostly white protesters have defied Ohio’s stay-at-home order without arrest, while in several of the state’s biggest jurisdictions,...
Democratic congressional leaders expressed alarm at the sudden acceleration and requested the government “cease this practice immediately.” by Lomi Kriel...
[caption id="attachment_10348" align="aligncenter" width="955"] A bear and her cubs in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. (Photo: Rich Miller/Flickr/cc)[/caption] "Killing...
Their father was missing. Their mother was miles away. Two sisters, ages 8 and 11, were survivors of sexual assault...
The Trump administration has promised at least $1.8 billion to 335 first-time contractors, often without competitive bidding or thorough vetting...
"They've always been indifferent to human life. And in the face of mass death, the masks are coming off." [caption...
Advocates for restoring the voting rights of people with past convictions welcomed the ruling as "a powerful reminder that no...
The outbreak at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in rural West Texas is the second-largest among the nation's 49 immigration detention...
"100,000 Americans dead. 40,000,000 unemployed. So let’s go golfing." by Common Dreams staff Saturday, May 23 President Donald J. Trump,...
Zach Fuentes, former deputy chief of staff to President Trump, won the contract just days after registering his company. He...
"Oil and gas corporations already pay pennies compared to what they make in profits from plundering public lands—land that belongs...
Nearly half of Chase’s owners have demanded to know how the bank plans to align its business model with the...
Trump Care [caption id="attachment_10111" align="alignleft" width="1170"] After paying more than $9,000 in premiums and fees over 13 months to O’NA...
[caption id="attachment_10104" align="aligncenter" width="1170"] An electron microscope photograph from Elizabeth Fischer shows viral particles being released from a dying cell...
Government stimulus checks and a temporary ban on evictions are tiding over the suddenly jobless residents of housing complexes owned...
Collecting data on invasive plants, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, California. Connar L'Ecuyer/NPS by Richard B. Primack, Boston...
[caption id="attachment_10045" align="aligncenter" width="669"] The coronavirus crisis has brought "the machine of capitalism... to a halt," said Arundhati Roy. (Image:...
"The economy is currently approaching a knife edge in how recovery will proceed." by Eoin Higgins, staff writer Wednesday, May...
"This is the worst economic crisis in 100 years and Donald Trump is doubling down on Herbert Hoover's economic playbook...
Contractors with no experience in food distribution are looking for suppliers on Facebook while some food banks scramble to find...
'Not Just Bad, It's Pathological' "Robbing from a clean energy future to prop up the dirty energy past." by...
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