Despite rising inflation and high gas prices, White House officials insisted this week that Arizona is sharing in the nation’s “robust” economic recovery, with low unemployment, and expanding wages in…
Arizona had five of the 15 fastest-growing cities in the U.S. last year while Phoenix continued to add residents, bucking the trend of major cities that lost population during the…
WASHINGTON – Patricia Maisch, a victim of the 2011 shooting in Tucson that killed six and wounded 13, thought for sure that Congress would have been spurred to enact gun…
As the WNBA schedule moves into June, Phoenix Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard is worried that the imprisonment of Brittney Griner has taken a backseat to basketball and box scores. “A…
The number of Arizona births last year rose for the first time in seven years, stumping experts who had expected a baby bust to worsen through the pandemic. But Arizona…
Gun sales in Arizona have surged in recent years and experts say they could jump again, sparked by reports of multiple mass shootings around the U.S. FBI data shows that…
A computer monitor square that lights green on the edges when he speaks has become Steven Zylstra’s de facto office. Zylstra is one of a sizable number of Arizonans who…
ELOY – One block west of Main Street, behind City Hall and police headquarters, sits a nondescript one-story gray-brick building that should be a lifeline for the thousands of local…
Arizona was again among the worst states in the nation for per pupil spending on K-12 education in 2020, a ranking that advocates said was embarrassing but not surprising. The…
Arizona businesses welcomed the federal government’s release this week of another 35,000 H-2B work visas for temporary guest workers, as a tight U.S. labor market has left companies scrambling to…
Arizona traffic fatalities hit their highest level in 15 years in 2021, when the state saw a 6.5% increase in highway deaths that experts blame in part on bad driving…
Marilyn Hanson takes a 3-mile walk every day along a river wash and bike path northwest of Tucson. While she walks, she listens for birds and surveys the areas along…
