
Flagstaff Wins Dark Sky Place of the Year Award
The City of Flagstaff has been awarded the prestigious Dark Sky Place of the Year award from DarkSky International.

Family Discovers Possible Shakespeare Portrait Hanging in Their Living Room – PBS
The portrait hung above the Wadlow family’s television set for 50 years.

The official 2025 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree stops in Flagstaff on the way to D.C.
Coconino County is purchasing a new mobile library to reach the farthest edges of what is one of the largest counties in the United States.

How Soil Microbes Help Us Fight Climate Change
Caltech graduate student Hannah Dion-
Kirschner studies microbes in soil that eat methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Polish museum invites Robert De Niro to view portrait of lookalike 17th-century “ancestor”
The museum’s director, Piotr Oszczanowski, noted that Vogt and De Niro have “a few distinctive features in common” – and even “the same twinkle in their eyes”.

‘Spider robot’ promises to build entire houses in less than 24 hours
Developers say the machine can autonomously form structural walls for about a 2,150-square-foot home using locally sourced materials.

Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross
An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World War
