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Update: Trump Reduces Bears Ears Monument; 'It's an Attack on Tribal Nations'

By John Dougherty
Dec 4, 2017

America’s newest national monument, located in Utah on Arizona's northern border, was also the first ever proposed by American Indian tribes. Now President Trump's administration wants to shrink it.
Wildfire Expert Alleges Arizona Forestry Division Covering Up Yarnell Hill Tragedy

By John Dougherty
Apr 5, 2016

A long-anticipated field presentation scheduled today by the Arizona Forestry Division for the families of 19 incinerated Granite Mountain Hotshots – during which relatives are to be taken to the site where their loved ones perished — has been sharply criticized for failing to accurately portray what happened. During the...
Phoenix Federal Court Verdict Could Cripple Abusive Polygamist Church Hierarchy on Arizona-Utah Border

By John Dougherty
Mar 7, 2016

The future of the long-tortured enclave of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, hinges on a Phoenix federal court verdict in the U.S. Department of Justice’s historic lawsuit alleging that a fundamentalist polygamous sect controls local governments and the community's police force. A seven-week trial before U.S. District Court Judge...
Hotshot Leader Didn't Talk on Phone in Hours Before Arizona's Yarnell Hill Fire Tragedy, Wife States

By John Dougherty
Dec 23, 2015

Granite Mountain Hotshot Superintendent Eric Marsh did not make or receive cell phone calls in the three hours leading up to the burn-over that claimed his life along with 18 other members of his crew during the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013, his wife Amanda Marsh tells New...
Key Evidence in Arizona's Yarnell Hill Fire Tragedy Never Provided to Official Investigators

By John Dougherty
Dec 16, 2015

Key evidence that could explain why the Granite Mountain Hotshots moved from a safe location into a treacherous box canyon where 19 men died on June 30, 2013, was in the Office of the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's possession but was not provided to a contracted state investigation into the...

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