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The national housing market broke records in August with increasing home prices, but in Phoenix, home prices are leveling out, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Year over year, Phoenix home prices are still rising, by 7.4 percent. But month over month, prices showed very little change from July to August.
Sept. 24, 2018
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas wants to replace the state’s K-12 education standards with those developed by a conservative Christian college. The recommendation could override years of public meetings, input from teachers, experts and parents that have been used to formulate Arizona’s existing standards.
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Sept. 24, 2018
India-based Infosys says it will hire 1,000 Arizona workers over the next five years. Valor Global Services says it is working to open a fifth location and plans to hire more than 1,000 Arizonans over the next year.
Sept. 24, 2018
Six siblings of U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar are urging voters to support his rival candidate. The family is speaking out in a new TV ad from Democrat David Brill.
Sept. 22, 2018
Authorities are still trying to figure out what caused the deaths of two dozen cows in the Heber-Overgaard area, in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.
Sept. 22, 2018
Mexico’s incoming president visited the neighboring state of Sonora this week, stopping for a trip to two border cities to lay out an ambitious agenda. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stood on stage in Nogales, laying out his plans to a cheering crowd of a few thousand people.
Sept. 21, 2018
The Maricopa County Internal Audit Department issued a review of primary election day, but it left a major question unanswered. Sixty-two polling sites were unopened when voting was supposed to start at 6 a.m.
Sept. 21, 2018
About 51 percent of transmasculine youth and 42 percent of non-binary adolescents reported attempting suicide. That was the highest suicide risk in the transgender community.
Sept. 21, 2018
The Cooper Center in Tucson has three major focuses for its students: to enhance their positive experiences in nature, to give them basic ecological understandings, and to inspire them to live in more sustainable lives.
Sept. 21, 2018
Ramona Walls from the University of Arizona co-authored a recent Nature Ecology and Evolution paper detailing the importance of essential biodiversity variables.
Sept. 21, 2018
Baseball’s Diamondbacks have faded from postseason contention. Football’s Cardinals are off to an dreadful 0-2 start. Hockey’s Coyotes and basketball’s Suns remain in rebuilding mode as they begin their seasons this fall. But The Phoenix Rising is doing just as their name implies.
Sept. 21, 2018
Despite some opposition to extending light rail into south Phoenix, Valley Metro wants to stay the course. At a special meeting scheduled for Wednesday, the council will be asked to approve the two-lane design, which will reduce Central Avenue to one lane for vehicles in each direction.
Sept. 21, 2018
Ninety-one percent of the $2,344,672,606 spent by the The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment system in fiscal year 2017 went to programs connected to Medicaid and KidsCare, the state’s health insurance program for low-income children.
Sept. 21, 2018
As the opioid epidemic continues to grip our state and nation, there is another population that’s being negatively affected by this crisis — the babies born to addicted mothers.
Sept. 21, 2018
The Interior Secretary plans to visit the Grand Canyon on Saturday to bring attention to the need to fix national parks. The National Park Service has a $12 billion backlog of maintenance projects.
Sept. 21, 2018
Discussing the week in news with former Superintendent of Public Instruction Jaime Molera of Molera Alvarez, and former legislative leader Chad Campbell of Strategies 360.
Sept. 21, 2018
Saturday is officially the first day of fall and, for some people, that means one thing: pumpkins! But if you don’t like corn mazes or apple picking, you still have pumpkin spice and the pumpkin spice latte.
Sept. 21, 2018
Voters will be getting at least a little bit more information about politically active nonprofit groups and their donors — as we sit about six weeks away from November’s election.
Sept. 21, 2018
In the summer, mesquite pods fall to the ground, usually to be raked up by people, or blown away by the wind, but one person’s yard debris is Peggy Sorensen’s main ingredient.
Sept. 21, 2018
The four candidates vying to be Arizona’s newest utility regulators sparred on Thursday. The Arizona Corporation Commission has two seats up for grabs, and the outcome of the November election could significantly shift the power dynamic.
Sept. 21, 2018