Arizona Daily Sun

A small army of robots will putter and hum into Flagstaff Saturday as another regional robotics tournament comes to Coconino High School. Full Story »

Flagstaff Councilmember Rick Swanson knows the city needs to ask voters to renew the local Bed, Board and Beverage and sales taxes. Full Story »

Two weeks before Thanksgiving, members from a handful of humanitarian and civic-minded organizations around Flagstaff were busy canvassing the town with posters advertising their latest donation collection. Full Story »

The Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy has several upcoming performances highlighting the culmination of student work: Full Story »

A pickup truck hit and damaged an above-ground natural gas piping assembly, causing gas to leak into the air and prompting the evacuation of 40 nearby homes in a north Flagstaff neighborhood Tuesday morning. Full Story »

A Tuba City woman has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and fined $75,000 in the theft of more than $300,000 in tribal funds from the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe. Full Story »

Harold A. Fish, 62, convicted of second-degree murder in a Coconino County trailside shooting death of Grant Kuenzli, is no longer a convicted felon. Full Story »

A Dennehotso man has been federally charged in connection with a Nov. 18 stabbing of a woman on the Navajo Nation. Full Story »

The Coconino National Forest will host a workshop to offer tips for how to apply for Forest Service jobs. Full Story »

Saving an estimated $40,000 a year is not enough incentive to close Flagstaff City Hall and two other buildings on Fridays, the Flagstaff City Council decided last week. Full Story »

The Coconino County Sheriff's Office is hosting a terrorism and disaster preparedness training in Page Saturday. Full Story »

Kaibab National Forest personnel are planning to ignite piles in two areas east of Williams today. Full Story »

A man who had fallen 400 feet off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon to his death on Saturday has been identified as 62-year-old B. Holt Vaughn of Broomfield, Colo. Full Story »

The primary newspaper covering Hopi lands, the Hopi Tutuveni, will be closed under a budget passed Monday by the Hopi Tribal Council, according to the paper's editor. Full Story »

Violet Souders, 5, keeps a close eye on her music teacher as she plays with the Suzuki Strings group from the Northern Arizona University Community Music and Dance Academy at the Little America hotel Saturday night. (Jake Bacon/Arizona Daily Sun/Order this photo at http://photos.azdailysun.com) Full Story »

HAPPY 400th PET! Holly is celebrating because her photo is the 400th Pet of the Week featured since we started the column nearly eight years ago! Week after week, the animal lovers of Flagstaff have supported the Coconino Humane Shelter by adopting wonderful pets just like Holly. The shelter's phone number is 526-1076, and its hours are Monday through Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and ... Full Story »

A pellet stove fire caused an estimated $10,000 in damage to a home in the 10000 block of Lunar Drive early Sunday. Full Story »

DEAR EARTHTALK: Wouldn't a return to installing bidets in bathrooms at home go a long way toward cutting disposable tissue use and saving forests? Full Story »

The spirit of giving is at its peak during the winter holiday season. Full Story »

Grand Canyon National Park rangers recovered the body of a man 200 feet below the South Rim Saturday afternoon, park officials said. Full Story »

PRESCOTT -- Two small central Arizona cities have spent tens of millions of dollars to buy remote ranch land where they plan to sink wells that would ensure a water supply for their burgeoning populations. Full Story »

The shoeboxes were sent around the world with care. Full Story »

Fire managers with the Coconino National Forest plan a prescribed burn on Monday, 7 miles northwest of Clint's Well and about 25 miles northeast of Camp Verde. Full Story »

Sign ups for food and toy boxes at Sunshine Rescue Mission begin Tuesday. Full Story »

1884 -- On Thursday night last, a fire, first seen by C. F. Katherns from the platform of Brannen's store, broke out at the Stemmer residence on Gold Avenue. He broke the front door open and found Mrs. Stemmer had just thrown her baby out the window. They struggled to awaken Mr. Stemmer but failed to do so before the home was fully inflamed that they had to flee to save themselves. Regretfully ... Full Story »