Mayor Kate Gallego and members of the Phoenix City Council today agreed to leave an additional 14,000 acre-feet (AF) of Colorado River water in Lake Mead. It is part of…
Arizona is doing a lot of things well. Our economy is growing and diversifying at one of the fastest rates in the nation. We recovered jobs lost during the pandemic…
Glendale City Manager Kevin Phelps has declared a Stage 1 Drought Watch of the city’s Drought Management Plan. During Stage 1, Glendale will target a 5% water-reduction goal at municipal…
Lower rainfall and higher temperatures have created ideal conditions to exacerbate Arizona’s longstanding drought. Entering 2022, more than half of the state remains in severe drought status and an additional…
Summer is officially still a week away, but triple-digit heat is already here in the Valley of the Sun. The season is usually associated with higher temperatures, pool parties and…
Arizona has experienced a rapid transformation from an economy based on agriculture and tourism to one more focused on logistics and advanced manufacturing, with the Grand Canyon State poised to…
A new public opinion poll finds that an overwhelming majority of Arizonans are concerned with Arizona’s water supply and would support major investments in conservation. Eighty-six percent of those polled…
Describing Arizona’s recent economic development hot streak as anything but banner years for the state would be — to put it mildly — a vast understatement. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing…
At their briefing on Friday, May 6, officials with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Arizona Department of Water Resources, and Central Arizona Project delivered a stark assessment of the…
5.2 million people are currently being affected by the 20-year drought in Arizona, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System. To help combat this and to ensure that Arizonans…
Two Arizona rivers landed on an annual list of the top 10 “most endangered” rivers in the U.S. this week, including the drought-ravaged Colorado in the No. 1 spot. The…
Maricopa County is one of several Arizona counties that received a failing grade in air cleanliness based on high ozone days and high particle pollution days, according to the latest…
