Laurel Morales
Renae Yellowhorse, Save the Confluence spokeswoman, stands on the eastern edge of the Grand Canyon.
Growing The Grand Canyon: Tiny Tusayan Wants To Expand
The tiny Arizona town of Tusayan wants to grow. Many in the gateway community to the Grand Canyon want hotels and tourist attractions to better capitalize on the five million people that visit the park each year.
They also want basic things — more housing, neighborhoods, a grocery store and a library.
But there’s a problem. Water is in very short supply on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Growing The Grand Canyon: Sacredness Of The Space Debated
Developers are negotiating with the Navajo Nation to build a $150 million tourist destination on the eastern edge of the Grand Canyon.
But Navajo leaders are divided over whether to allow desperately needed economic development on a place many believe to be sacred.
“Of course it’s a majestic area,” said one member of the Navajo Nation. “It’s an origin area, an oral tradition area. It’s a seventh wonder of the world in our backyard, but I would like to share that sacredness with other outside people.”
Photo by Michel Marizco
Seven bullet holes are circled in red on one of the walls where a Border Patrol agent's bullets struck the night Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez died. The agency says Rodriguez was among a group throwing rocks at a Border Patrol agent. Another bullet hole lies outside of this image. The international border fence is to the left.
Lawsuit Filed In Border Patrol Shooting Of Mexican Teen
Attorneys filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday in the case of a Mexican teenager who was shot and killed by United States Border Patrol on the Southwest border.
Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was shot ten times near his house along the border in Nogales, Mexico.
Border Patrol said one agent fired shots in response to rocks being thrown by people from the Mexico side of the border.
ASU's State Press To Be First All-Digital University Newspaper
Arizona State University’s school newspaper is officially out of print and going digital.
The State Press will become an all-digital publication in the fall, making it the first major university newspaper in the nation to make the transition.
"People don’t have the time to pick up a daily or weekly paper and read through it when they can get the same articles on their phone wherever they are,” said Editor-In-Chief Julia Shumway.