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Arizona Supreme Court decided that five CPS employees fired in 2013 for mishandling child abuse complaints will not be rehired or compensated.
May 17, 2017
Pioneer Park in Mesa is getting an upgrade to provide updated amenities while preserving and improving the historic assets.
May 17, 2017
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The Department of Labor has filed suit against a west valley farm for subhuman work conditions.
May 17, 2017
“It’s just my own personal decision that it’s time to look for something that’s different and challenging versus just keeping the bike on the road,” said outgoing Chief Information Officer Mark Masterson.
May 17, 2017
Every six months, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Tonopah, Arizona, shuts down one of its three reactors for refueling and maintenance. Here's what it's like inside.
May 17, 2017
The Mayo Clinic in Arizona will have a new medical school by the end of the summer. It’s the next development after the academic institution was the only school in the nation to receive two awards.
May 17, 2017
Arizona drivers can expect several closures in the coming weeks. ADOT crews are installing new in-pavement sensors to monitor traffic flow.
May 17, 2017
Phoenix has three years before its self-imposed deadline to divert 40 percent of trash from landfills. Currently, the city’s diversion rate is 20 percent. To meet its goal, Phoenix will need more buy-in from apartment complexes.
May 17, 2017
The dream of a unified North American electricity grid could not have been contemplated until Mexico's electricity market was opened to foreign companies in 2014. Today, larger scale volumes of electricity are flowing in both directions across the Mexico-United States border.
May 17, 2017
U.S. Sen. John McCain says he is deeply disturbed by reports that President Trump revealed highly classified information to senior Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week.
May 16, 2017
The Arizona Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for a convicted killer. It is the third death sentence Darrel Pandeli has faced for the same case.
May 16, 2017
In what was initially a campuswide effort to focus on their diverse student body, University of Arizona has now backed off of creating a “social justice activist” program, where students in paid positions would act as points of contact for students who felt harassed or threatened.
May 16, 2017
The often heartbreaking stories of Japanese-Americans who were put in internment camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor have been told in recent years. But there were also Japanese-Mexicans who faced a similar fate during the early 1940s, and NAU Ethnic Studies Professor Jerry Garcia has written about that in his book, "Looking Like the Enemy."
May 16, 2017
Banner Health is trying something a little different, when it comes to getting its patients the specific care they need. It’s set up specialized health-care institutes around Banner–University Medical Center in Phoenix, in areas including heart, lung, urology and digestive care. Subspecialist centers are inside each of those institutes.
May 16, 2017
Customs and Border Protection started the groundwork calling for proposals for the border wall in March. At least 200 companies expressed interest. Dennis O’Leary of Scottsdale-based DarkPulse Technologies says his company proposed using sensors in addition to a physical barrier.
May 16, 2017
A Tucson school district employee is under house arrest after FBI agents say he threatened his U.S. congresswoman.
May 16, 2017
The Arizona Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration tonight are holding the last of a series of public meetings, to get input on proposed corridors for the section of Interstate 11, which would run between Nogales and Wickenburg.
May 16, 2017
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Sexual assault on college campuses has been getting more and more attention, as officials work on ways to prevent them and help victims. But a series by the Associated Press finds sexual assaults are happening much younger — in elementary and secondary schools.
May 16, 2017
How does that Sesame Street song go? Who are the people in your neighborhood? Or from Jules Dassin, who said: "There are 8 million stories in the naked city."
May 16, 2017
Immigrants’ rights advocates around the country are joining together in an effort to mobilize over 1 million people to become naturalized citizens in 2017. And now Arizona groups are joining in the effort. Tara Rahuveer is deputy director of the National Partnership for New Americans, one of the groups that’s behind this campaign.
May 16, 2017
