From the KAWC Newsroom
Kevin Kato
This week on Arizona Edition, we talk about the growing concerns over biosolids in Yuma County.
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The route for the iconic cycling race's final stage was shortened because security and police were reassigned to assist with wildfires in southwest France. -
The United States paused attacks on Iran for a second straight day Sunday and Tehran said it had done so too, as efforts continued to bring the countries back to negotiations on an interim ceasefire. -
This week the federal government is to release new rules for how much water each of the seven states that share the Colorado River will get. Effects on the ecosystem were largely left unconsidered.
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An advisory council stacked with President Trump's allies voted to relax a 60-year-old historic preservation law, paving the way for federal projects that could harm historic sites across the country.
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A year after President Trump signed a law ending six decades of federal funding of public media, it's a time of reinvention, innovation and clear anxiety at public tv and radio stations nationwide. -
Unable to return home, some Lebanese displaced by Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon are buying satellite images to see whether their houses survived. -
For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood. -
When summer rolls around, many parents scramble to sign up their young kids for outdoor activities. But what do you do when extreme heat and wildfire smoke increasingly make the outdoors dangerous? -
Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve his language through robotics. -
Germany's interior minister Alexander Dobrindt described the incident as a likely "Islamic terror attack," and named the suspect as Abdul Ballout, who was born in Germany and has Lebanese roots. -
In France, around 50,000 people were evacuated from their homes overnight into Sunday, according to interior minister Laurent Nuñez. At least one person has died in a fire in Spain, officials said. -
Wildfires have now scorched four million acres of land in the U.S. Federal fire managers say all of the country's resources are currently deployed to major fires.
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