AZ Briefing: Advocates bemoan skipping Grand Canyon flood

May 24, 2025
by RJ Hamster

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Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know about what’s happening across the state before you start your day.

Federal officials have rejected a plan to release floodwaters from Lake Powell to restore Grand Canyon beaches this spring, frustrating Colorado River advocates who question the government’s commitment to protecting the canyon’s environment.

Native veterans honored

Native American Air Force veteran Shine Jozefiak speaks during the Memorial Day Remembrance at Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix on May 23, 2025.

Rob Schumacher/The Republic

The Phoenix Indian Center and the Veterans Affairs’ Phoenix regional office honored Native veterans with a ceremony at Steele Indian School Park on May 23.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1883: A project whose construction spanned more than a decade was finally opened to the public, and thousands came to the dedication of the first steel suspension bridge and largest suspension bridge at the time. The Brooklyn Bridge connected Manhattan to Brooklyn over the East River with a roadway for vehicles and a walkway for pedestrians.
•	In 1941: The German battleship Bismarck dealt a blow to the British Navy when it sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in the Battle of the Denmark Strait. However, in the following days, dozens of British warships and aircraft pursued and eventually sank the Bismarck.
•	In 1960: The first U.S. surveillance satellite reached orbit. MIDAS 2 (the second Missile Defense Alarm System satellite, after the first had failed to achieve orbit) and those that followed offered a limited early warning system watching for intercontinental ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union.
•	In 1994: Sentences of 240 years in prison each were handed down to Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima and Ahmad Ajaj, who had in March been convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured more than 1,000.
•	In 2002: The United States and Russia signed the Moscow Treaty, in which they agreed to limit their strategic nuclear warheads to between 1,700 and 2,200.
•	In 2022: A mass shooting carried out by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers. Law enforcement shot and killed the gunman, but the responding agencies received intense criticism for a flawed and delayed intervention.

— William Cain, USA TODAY Network

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AZ Briefing: Advocates bemoan skipping Grand Canyon flood

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Family remembers landscaper killed in Gilbert shooting

Woman uses stolen identity for health care, gets prison

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