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Major League Baseball announced Friday that the first week of Spring Training games has been canceled as a result of the ongoing labor dispute between MLB and the MLB Players Association. Both Cactus League and Florida’s Grapefruit League exhibition games were set to begin Feb. 26.
→ Threat to Cactus League grows as talks end after 15 minutes
→ Threat to Cactus League grows as talks end after 15 minutes
Feb. 18, 2022
Members of searching groups in Sonora have regularly received messages from people in Central America and further who last heard from their loved ones before trying to cross the border in Sonora.
Feb. 18, 2022
However, Union Pacific, which owns the line north of the border in Nogales, Arizona, says it has "no plans on its own to move the track.”
Feb. 18, 2022
Operations have been suspended at a gold mine in northern Sonora this week in the wake of an accident that left three dead.
Feb. 18, 2022
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list a tiny desert owl as a threatened species.
Feb. 18, 2022
COVID-19 safety precautions, and possibly the novel virus itself, are credited with low influenza infection rates in Arizona.
Feb. 18, 2022
President Joe Biden will speak about Russia's buildup of military troops on the border with Ukraine and will discuss, according to the White House, "continued efforts to pursue deterrence and diplomacy."
Feb. 18, 2022
Networks have embraced reality TV shows due to high ratings at a cheap production cost. And despite complaints, viewers continue to tune into them.
Feb. 18, 2022
While many of the closures in 2020 came from Gov. Doug Ducey, bill sponsor Rep. Leo Biasiucci says many small businesses were hit the worst.
Feb. 18, 2022
The bills passing on a party line vote would allow people to carry firearms in libraries, and allow loaded weapons in vehicles on school grounds.
Feb. 18, 2022
The Catholic Diocese of Phoenix made national — and even international — headlines after it told thousands of Valley Catholics their baptisms may be invalid. But this isn't the first time in history that something like this has happened.
Feb. 18, 2022
The final curling stone of the 2022 Winter Olympics will be released Feb. 20 in the women’s gold medal match, but it turns out that does not need to be your last brush with the sport.
Feb. 18, 2022
This week, the Legislature made progress on the school spending cap, the Arizona Senate passed bill that would massively expand school vouchers, and leaders within Allister Adel's office called for the Maricopa County attorney to resign.
Feb. 18, 2022
Roughly 60,000 grandparents in Arizona are raising their grandchildren. But raising children later in life can be financially difficult. Once again, efforts are being made again at the Legislature to boost state aid for kinship foster care.
Feb. 18, 2022
Nearly half a ton of methamphetamines and fentanyl was seized at the small Mexico-Arizona border crossing of Lukeville. Customs officers found the drugs in an RV.
Feb. 17, 2022
Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick recused himself from the state Senate’s appeal of an order for Republican leaders to disclose hundreds of records related to its partisan election review in Maricopa County.
Feb. 17, 2022
The cast and crew for a musical based on the patriotism of a “Dreamer” from Phoenix are headed to New York City for a 12-week run off Broadway.
Feb. 17, 2022
Predatory birds experience lead poisoning globally, but data only reflect regional exposures and population impacts. A new 10-year study of bald and golden eagles expands that scale — and reveals alarming patterns.
Feb. 17, 2022
Tempe is planning a new storage program to reunite people with items they leave behind in the city's parks or other public spaces. The consequences of losing something like an ID can be serious, especially for someone experiencing homelessness.
Feb. 17, 2022
This week, the state House approved a waiver of the expenditure cap for schools, and Senate Republicans moved to expand Arizona’s voucher program. It’s into this environment that Randy Parraz steps as the new executive director of the Arizona Education Association.
Feb. 17, 2022
