Another Arizona city is looking to cut public pensions costs. The Tucson City Council voted Tuesday to create a task force to find ways to reduce the costs of police and fire pensions.

The iconic Joshua trees of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts are blooming beyond expectation this year.

Italian architect Paolo Soleri has died at the age of 93.

A grocery chain with outlets in Arizona says it will start requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods in its stores.

Arizona lawmakers voted Monday to scrap an old definition in the law books that said people with mental illness were idiots.

The Scottsdale City Council will vote on the proposed pedicab ordinance Tuesday. The council will decide whether to require a driver’s license to operate the passenger tricycles on its city streets. Some pedicab operators say the requirement is actually not a bad idea.

Some call it a national crisis, and studies show that Hispanic and African-American males are more likely to drop out of school than other students.

Some Arizona County Health Departments are dealing with the national shortage of a common drug used to test patients for Tuberculosis. 

A new report says voluntary programs to keep mercury thermostats out of the trash in Arizona, and across the country, are failing.