North-Rim News

A third pipeline break in Grand Canyon National Park has closed a one-mile section of the North Kaibab Trail between Roaring Springs and Cottonwood Campground.

Each year, 5 million people visit Grand Canyon National Park. Most of them see the World Heritage Site from its South Rim, which remains open all year.

The Gladiator Fire has burned almost 10,000 acres and is 5 percent contained, the Bull Flat Fire , in Fort Apache Indian Reservation, is more than 2,000 acres, and is 50 percent contained, the Elwood Fire , in the San Carlos Indian Reservation, covers almost 1,500 acres and is at least 5 percent contained, and and the Sunflower Fire , which has ... (more)

Denny Riesmeyer, Andrew N. Todd, Gordon Taylor, Jon Streit and Joel Southall of Xanterra, receive the award from Superintendent Uberuaga Grand Canyon, Ariz.

Clara Barton's downtown Washington office, where she led an effort to trace missing soldiers from the Civil War before she founded the American Red Cross, has survived since her death 100 years ago and will soon become a museum, organizers said.