The National Park Service is investigating after it received reports of a single occupant vehicle driving off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon over the weekend.
Park rangers reportedly recovered the body of 27-year-old Steven Bradley from Federal Heights, Colorado, 300 feet below the rim near South Kaibab Trailhead.
The body was sent to the Coconino County Medical Examiner office by helicopter after recovery on Saturday.
More northern Arizona news
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Samples from the Sedona Wastewater Treatment Plant tested positive for the measles virus. That indicates that at least one person with a recent infection has been in the area. -
The illness features symptoms like fever, joint aches and fluid in the lungs. Sickened river rafters and boaters are using social media to discover they're not alone in it. -
FEMA has awarded about $700,000 to Arizona and the Havasupai Tribe to fund hazard mitigation projects. The money came from a program the federal agency had nixed but was reinstated by the courts earlier this year. -
State environmental regulators have given the owner of a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon the green light for higher levels of arsenic in groundwater under the facility. -
The airport will remove 1,000 feet on the southern end of runway 3R/21L, the largest of three runways at the airport, and will extend the runway to the north, increasing the total length to 10,000 feet.
