Felicia Fonseca
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@AP Mountain West assistant news director. Former Indigenous affairs, water, northern AZ reporter. Fitness instructor. Enjoy naps, the outdoors. '17 @niemanfdn
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Joined September 2010
RT @SMBNewMexico: The Dragon Bravo Fire burning on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon has a fire perimeter that stretches more than 221 mile….
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Two wildfires burning in the western United States are so hot that they’re spurring the formation of “fire clouds” that can create their own erratic weather systems.
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When you're stuck on I-40 for 11+ hours but happy there's snow ❄️
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RT @MatthewDalyWDC: Biden has added to the nation's list of national monuments during his term. There's an appetite for more conservation/h….
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RT @MegKinnardAP: For the first time in @AP 's history, we will offer a digital livestream of Tuesday night's US presidential election resu….
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A remote tribe is reeling from widespread illness and cancer. What role did the US government play? By Gabe Stern. Photos/video by Rick Bowmer. Video production @TyatAP
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The remote Duck Valley reservation that straddles Nevada and Idaho has battled toxic contaminants on its land for decades.
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RT @michellelprice: Arizona voters will get to decide in November whether to add the right to an abortion to the state constitution: https:….
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Voters in Arizona will get to decide in November whether to add the right to an abortion up to about 24 weeks to the state constitution.
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Mescalero Apaches confronted with 'false choice' to be Apache or Catholic after removal of Apache Christ at their church. The painting has been restored and a priest replaced. But some parishioners say it's not enough to heal the spiritual abuse.
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The congregation at St. Joseph Apache Mission in the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico, is struggling to deal with the hurt caused by their priest removing a cherished painting called the Apache...
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100 years ago, US citizenship for Native Americans came without voting rights in swing states. By @MLeeAP
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An act of Congress a century ago guaranteed citizenship to wary Native Americans in an age of forced assimilation and marked the outset of a long journey to secure voting rights.
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Proposed settlement is first step in securing Colorado River water for 3 Native American tribes | AP News
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A proposed water rights settlement for three Native American tribes in Arizona has taken a big step forward with the introduction before the Navajo Nation Council.
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Congrats!.
.@AP names 7 new statehouse reporters as part of its ongoing collaboration with Report for America.
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The Southwest crew is excited to welcome @gluissandoval to @AP this summer. You do like the heat, qué no? .Report for America welcomes newest corps members, injects hope for the future of local news
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Report for America will place nearly 60 reporters and photojournalists in new positions at local newsrooms across the country this summer.
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Journalists: The AP is hiring for two positions in Arizona and Michigan to cover state government focusing on women in politics. These are grant-funded through February 2026. Check it out! @NABJ @NAHJ @nlgja @IndigenousJA @aaja @WritersofColor @spj_tweets .
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Newsperson (State Government Reporter, Michigan/Arizona)
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.Nevada's first big-game moose hunt will be tiny as unusual southern expansion defies climate change.
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It will be a very tiny big-game hunt for one of the largest animals in North America. Nevada is planning its first-ever moose hunt this fall. Only one or two of the 100 or so moose in Nevada are...
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RT @ttangAP: In NE Arizona from March to November, you can gain or lose an hour crossing the US 160 bcuz the Navajo Nation does #DaylightSa….
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For residents of the Navajo Nation, the beginning of daylight saving time means the beginning of an annual headache.
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Navajo says it's closing in on a settlement with Arizona for Colorado River water rights that would include Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute. Navajo has one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the river basin.
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A Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement.
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Long after tragic mysteries are solved, families of Native American victims are kept in the dark. By @ssonner and @SMBNewMexico. Video by @terrychea
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Philbert Shorty's family was in the dark. They reported him missing after finding his car stuck in the mud in a remote area near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
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RT @AP: BREAKING: The ‘none of these candidates’ option wins in Nevada GOP primary, a symbolic rejection of Nikki Haley. Joe Biden wins the….
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Nikki Haley has been swamped in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the “none of these candidates” option on the ballot.
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RT @MatthewDalyWDC: Great Basin tribes want massacre site in eastern Nevada named a national monument. Shoshone and other tribes want feder….
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Back in the 1800s, white attackers turned a lush high desert oasis in eastern Nevada into killing fields.
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