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The majority of respondents to a new survey say, despite the cost and potential debt load, getting a degree from a four-year college or university is worth it.
March 28, 2019
Rep. David Stringer has resigned. It was a surprise twist yesterday; a culmination of ongoing events since early last year, beginning with Stringer’s racial comments caught on tape by students at ASU. Those triggered an ethics complaint from Rep. Reginald Bolding.
March 28, 2019
Thursday is baseball’s Opening Day. The Diamondbacks will look a lot different this year, having lost mainstays like Paul Goldschmidt and Patrick Corbin in the off-season. To preview the upcoming season, The Show spoke to Jeff Wiser, a writer for BaseballProspectus.com.
March 28, 2019
In honor of President Trump setting a record for forcing the longest government shutdown in U.S. history back in January, Planet Money took a look at the very first shutdown back in 1879, and how it wasn't all that different from today.
March 28, 2019
Environmental groups on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit aimed at overturning a key permit for a proposed open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona.
March 28, 2019
Each game averaged about 7,900 attendees. The Chicago Cubs are still the most popular team and the Milwaukee Brewers saw the largest increase in attendance this season.
March 28, 2019
KJZZ partners with the Arizona Republic to bring you the Arizona Storytellers series. Today's storyteller is Marilee Lasch, an artist living in Superior.
March 28, 2019
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' faced sharp rebuke from lawmakers on Tuesday regarding her proposal to cut funding for the Special Olympics in addition to programs to help students who are blind, deaf, and otherwise require special education services.
March 28, 2019
“We do our best to accommodate their needs so they can have all the recreational opportunities that any individuals should,” said Samantha Mason, coordinator for adapted recreation in the city of Tempe.
March 28, 2019
The commissioner of the nation’s border security agency says the border has hit a breaking point. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan spoke in El Paso, Texas, a region of the border where migrant detentions are rising fast.
March 27, 2019
Arizona Senate Bill 1310 would allow those convicted of drug or paraphernalia possession who don’t have a conviction for a previous violent felony to earn release credits and serve more of their sentence in the community.
March 27, 2019
A bipartisan agreement on Drought Contingency Plan legislation has been reached and lawmakers plan to introduce it “very soon.” That’s according to U.S. Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona.
March 27, 2019
The fact is, the United States is one of only eight countries in the world that doesn’t have paid family leave available to parents, according to Amy Raub. She researches maternity leave policies across the world, in countries rich and poor, and can compare and contrast the differences, some of which might surprise you.
March 27, 2019
The list of candidates is already very long and includes Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But which of them can actually appeal to independents and at least some Republicans? Is our current polarization so intense that it seems nearly impossible?
March 27, 2019
For a second consecutive term, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up the issue of partisan gerrymandering, hearing arguments from North Carolina and Maryland.
March 27, 2019
One of its schools, Sullivan Elementary, is being run by an acting principal because the current principal is on at-home assignment, but the board refused to make that person the official interim principal last month.
March 27, 2019
Alice Waters is a chef, restaurateur, author and food activist. She’s also been involved in the "slow food" movement for many years. She’s in Arizona on Wednesday giving a talk at Arizona State University called “Teaching Slow Food Values in a Fast Food Culture.”
March 27, 2019
In the series, Women of the West, we explore stories of Arizona women who helped shape their communities and our state’s history.
March 27, 2019
State Sen. Heather Carter plans to replace the language in an unrelated bill with the language from the tuition bill in a Senate committee Thursday. The process is called a "strike-everything" amendment and is not uncommon at the Capitol.
March 27, 2019
The House Elections Committee voted yesterday to make changes to rules around the Permanent Early Voting List. If it passes, the bill would prohibit county officials from sending early ballots to voters who did not use them in the past two election cycles.
March 27, 2019
