The city of Phoenix this month completed an unprecedented effort to clear its largest homeless encampment. A parent of two students at Desert Mountain High School says his children were bullied after Tom Horne, the state superintendent of public instruction, accused two student clubs of spreading antisemitic materials on campus. What if you knew you had Alzheimer’s disease before you had any symptoms? Plus the latest Fronteras Desk, tribal natural resources, business and metro Phoenix news.

Phoenix leaders held a ceremony Thursday to kick off renovations for the future police headquarters. The president of a large Christian university in Phoenix is pushing back against a nearly $38 million fine assigned by the federal government. The Environmental Protection Agency says it will fund new research focused on how PFAS — known as forever chemicals — affect animals and plants in agricultural areas. Plus the latest science, metro Phoenix, business and tribal resources news.

Important deadlines are quickly approaching for federal funding for climate change programs. Migrant families separated under the Trump administration’s "zero tolerance" policy will receive support from the U.S. government under a new settlement between the Biden administration and the ACLU. Gas prices have remained high in Arizona even as prices drop nationwide. Plus the latest science, tribal natural resources, education and metro Phoenix news.

A judge this week denied the city of Phoenix’s request for more time to clear the region’s largest homeless encampment. Save Our Schools Arizona delivered a memo to the state’s legislative leadership, governor, treasurer and superintendent of public instruction demanding a plan to deal with what it calls massive overspending on school vouchers. The U.S. government wants to change how it manages Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona to keep a disruptive invasive fish from spawning in its waters and harming protected species. Plus the latest business, tribal natural resources, metro Phoenix and science news.

More Arizona school counselors are facing compassion fatigue. Extreme temperatures led to hundreds of deaths in spite of record investments to protect people from heat. Nearly a third of the Navajo Nation still lives without running water, but that doesn’t stop travelers from veering off the grid. Plus the latest Fronteras Desk, science and business news.

The lawsuit against the City of Phoenix to disband its largest homeless encampment, known as the ‘Zone,’ is still ongoing. Over the past several weeks, health insurance giant Humana has reported an uptick in older adults being hospitalized for COVID-19. Arizona is channeling $40 million in federal COVID-19 relief funding toward tutoring students falling behind in school. Plus the latest in business, tribal natural resources and Fronteras Desk news.

The National Park Service says annual visitor spending in Arizona topped $1 billion. The telecommunications network for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is reinvesting in its residents a year after a major disruption in service. And we have the answer for why Phoenix’s official weather readings are taken at Sky Harbor Airport. Plus the latest science, Fronteras Desk and education news.

President Joe Biden has designated more than 1,500 square miles to the north and south of Grand Canyon National Park as a new national monument. U.S. House Republicans were back in southern Arizona this week for a remote congressional hearing about what they call a crisis at the border created by the Biden administration. More than 30 bills that would affect the LGBTQ community were introduced in the Arizona Legislature this year, but few of them passed. Plus the latest metro Phoenix, science, business and education news.

Gov. Katie Hobbs has released new cost estimates for Arizona’s school voucher program, as part of an effort to get lawmakers to limit the program’s growth. The Wood for Life project is helping Arizona forests while also providing fuel for Native American communities in several other western states. A bill introduced this week by Congressman  Raul Grijalva and other lawmakers would strengthen federal protections for workers exposed to extreme heat. Plus the latest science, metro Phoenix and business news.