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Arizona’s new $17.8 billion budget includes new money for rural broadband expansion. Gov. Katie Hobbs met Friday with tribal leaders to address broadband expansion in their communities.
May 21, 2023
On Friday, opening night of a new WNBA season, Brittney Griner played in her first regular season game with the Phoenix Mercury since being released from Russian detainment.
May 21, 2023
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and other officials convened a roundtable discussion for fentanyl awareness. Hosted by the Phoenix Union High School District, the meeting served as an opportunity to inform the public about the opioid epidemic and the dangers of drug use.
May 21, 2023
The Gila River Indian Community will open its fourth casino in the Valley next month. Located south of Chandler, the Santan Mountain Casino is expected to have more than 800 slot machines and other amenities in a luxury setting.
May 21, 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Monday that last year’s mpox outbreak is not over as a cluster of cases were found in the Midwest. Now Maricopa County health officials have confirmed the first local case of the disease since January.
May 20, 2023
Tempe City Manager Andrew Ching announced on Friday that he’s stepping down next month, after a decade in the role. Ching is moving on to Paradise Valley, where he’s been hired as the town manager, pending council approval.
May 19, 2023
Attorneys in the latest Kari Lake election trial made their closing arguments Friday afternoon. In an attempt to overturn the 2022 election results, Lake’s team has been trying to prove that Maricopa County didn’t properly verify ballot signatures.
May 19, 2023
Mexico’s president has again decreed that some of his infrastructure projects are issues of national security - exempting them from certain transparency and permitting requirements.
May 19, 2023
This week, Mexican officials announced that dozens of migrants who had been kidnapped in northern Mexico have been rescued. Migrants making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border are frequent victims of robbery, assault and other crimes.
May 19, 2023
A new U.S. Senate report called "Uninspected and Neglected" found that decades of underfunding for nursing home inspection agencies has put older residents and people with disabilities at risk.
May 19, 2023
Average gas prices have dropped about 4 cents from a week ago across Arizona to about $4.64 a gallon. Maricopa County continues to have the highest prices at $4.99 a gallon on average. Graham County has the lowest, with prices at about $3.41 per gallon.
May 19, 2023
Arizona’s seasonally adjusted unemployment continued to fall from March to April from 3.5% to 3.4%.
May 19, 2023
Officials were still finding new victims of a widespread fraudulent AHCCCS scheme that targeted Native Americans in at least two states so far. Officials urge Native Americans targeted in the scheme to call 2-1-1.
May 19, 2023
The fastest population growth in Arizona is occurring on the far fringes of metro Phoenix. Queen Creek and the city of Maricopa are leading the way.
→ Phoenix metro population reaches 5 million
→ Phoenix metro population reaches 5 million
May 19, 2023
For many, graduation offers a good excuse to move on, leave town, fly this coop. But for Hector Chong, who graduated last week from Creighton University School of Medicine in Phoenix, it’s a reason to stay and help people in his community.
May 19, 2023
"Algorithm of a Culture" is a book of poetry — but we can’t tell you where you can buy it. That’s because author Márquez Price only made 100 copies of the book and sold each of them for $100.
May 19, 2023
A deal has been approved for the University of Idaho to purchase the University of Phoenix — a for-profit university that once had an enrollment of nearly 500,000 students.
May 19, 2023
Construction zones have been popping up overnight on parts of Interstate 10. Earlier this week, a construction worker was killed after a semi truck crashed into the boom lift he was operating near the Broadway curve.
May 19, 2023
A small community west of Phoenix experienced a big loss this week. On Tuesday night, flames engulfed one of Tonopah’s only community gathering places. Firefighters received the call that the Tin Top Bar and Grill was on fire at around midnight.
May 19, 2023
Doug Cole of HighGround and former state House Minority Leader Reginald Bolding joined The Show to talk about Kari Lake having a few more days in court, Tempe voters defeating a plan for a new Coyotes arena and more.
May 19, 2023
