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FILE – In this July 28, 2014, file photo, lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam that impounds Colorado River water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. Arizona is nearing a deadline to approve a plan to ensure a key reservoir in the West doesn’t become unusable as a water source for farmers, cities, tribes and developers. Other Western states are watching. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation expects full agreement on a drought contingency plan by Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Colorado one of 6 states to back Colorado River plan; Arizona faces deadline

January 28, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

Arizona is facing a deadline to become the last of several states in the U.S. West to approve a plan ensuring shared water from the Colorado River doesn't dry up...

In this Oct. 17, 2018 photo, Nicole Willis, left, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation who lives in Seattle, listens to speakers at a rally in Lacey, Wash. Willis grew up hours away from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation in the Pacific Northwest, which she calls home. She traveled often from Seattle for cultural events and to spend summers with her grandmother. To her, being Native American means her family is part of a distinct, interconnected community that has existed since ancient times. Her tribe requires citizens to be one-quarter Native American, with 1/16 specific to the tribe, but she said “theoretically, it shouldn’t matter.” (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Elizabeth Warren ancestry highlights how tribes decide membership

October 20, 2018 at 4:11 p.m.

Jon Rios traces his ancestry to the Pima people of Arizona, but he has no tribal enrollment card and lives hundreds of miles away in Colorado.

In this file photo taken on June 20, 2018, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on before signing an executive order on immigration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.

Pence says he never discussed removing Trump as president

September 9, 2018 at 7:53 p.m.

Vice President Mike Pence said he was never part of discussions to remove President Donald Trump from office and would take a lie-detector test 鈥渋n a heartbeat鈥� to prove that...

This July 23, 2013 photo shows river guide Steph Jackson holding an endangered humpback chub near the confluence of the Little Colorado and Colorado rivers in the Grand Canyon. Aquatic insects serve as food for fish, bats and birds in the Grand Canyon. Torrents of water have rushed through the Colorado River to help build up sandbars in the Grand Canyon, provide spawning areas for native fish and to protect archaeological sites. Beginning Saturday, May 5, 2018, water will be low and steady to benefit bugs and the things that eat bugs, as the dam that holds back Lake Powell will decrease flows over the weekend to give bug eggs a better chance for survival.

Scientists hope bug experiment fattens Colorado River fish

April 30, 2018 at 8:10 p.m.

Any great fishing hole depends on the health and well-being of its bugs.

Uber suspends self-driving car tests after pedestrian death in Arizona

March 19, 2018 at 11:56 p.m.

A self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in the first death involving a fully autonomous test vehicle 鈥� a crash that could have far-reaching consequences...

Trump plan ends research on uranium mining near Grand Canyon

March 8, 2018 at 10:17 p.m.

U.S. scientists studying the effects of uranium mining around the Grand Canyon say they are lacking information on whether the radioactive element is hurting plants, animals and a water source...

President Donald Trump, right, meets with ...

Families of Navajo Code Talkers stunned by Trump’s “Pocahontas” jab

November 28, 2017 at 11:45 a.m.

Families of Navajo war veterans who were honored at the White House say they were dumbfounded that President Donald Trump used the event to take a political jab at a...

In Indian Country, honoring flag might mean different anthem

November 25, 2017 at 8:02 p.m.

As fierce debate rages about "taking a knee" during the national anthem to protest social injustice, Native Americans have a unique take on the issue as the ethnic group with...

Wanted: Volunteer shooters to thin Grand Canyon bison herd

November 16, 2017 at 7:10 p.m.

The National Park Service plans to thin a herd of bison in the Grand Canyon through roundups and by seeking volunteers who are physically fit and proficient with a gun...

American Indian tribes hope for renewal in solar eclipse; not all will watch

August 19, 2017 at 11:44 p.m.

While much of the country gawks at the solar eclipse, Bobbieann Baldwin will be inside with her children, shades drawn.

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