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Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Kari Lake said Saturday that it’s unfortunate that top Arizona officials aren’t planning to enforce the state’s near-total abortion ban.
April 23, 2024
More than 33,000 people in the city of Maricopa were without power Tuesday morning. The major outage was reported around 8 a.m. in Pinal County’s Electrical District No. 3.
April 23, 2024
A new report from a national education group looks at how states are doing to link education and opportunity. The State Opportunity Index from the Strada Education Foundation finds Arizona doing well in some of the metrics examined — and less well in others.
April 23, 2024
Patrick Whelan is a doctor — an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at UCLA specializing in pediatric rheumatology, to be exact. But, he’s also a great lover of music. As part of what he calls a pandemic project, he started teaching a course at Harvard University on music and the mind
April 23, 2024
Rainn Wilson is probably best known for playing Dwight Schrute on the hit sitcom “The Office.” Dwight was often on a quest to get promoted from Assistant to the Regional Manager, but Wilson’s own quest is more spiritual.
April 23, 2024
Health-care advocate Maria-Teresa Leibermann-Parraga is particularly concerned about the ripple effects that Arizona's near-total abortion ban could have on neighboring states.
April 23, 2024
Can you punish someone for sleeping on the street? That’s one of the questions at the heart of an Oregon case that’s been playing out before the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
April 23, 2024
Four of the 26 people arrested at the November 2023 protest say their actions are protected under religious freedom laws.
April 23, 2024
This summer, people across the United States will have a new way to keep track of dangerous heat headed their way through a new heat warning system called HeatRisk.
April 23, 2024
Standing 10 floors high and sprawling over 673,000 square feet, the new Valleywise medical center replaces the Maricopa County Integrated Health System building, which served the public for 53 years.
April 23, 2024
Measures have been introduced, then stalled, for months as lawmakers argue over where to focus funding and resources at the border.
April 23, 2024
A progressive nonprofit is working to unseat Justices Kathryn Hackett King and Clint Bolick, who voted to uphold a near-total abortion ban in state law and will be up for retention on the November ballot.
April 23, 2024
Mesa Mayor John Giles and Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton on Monday announced roughly $1.75 million in federal money for two water infrastructure projects. Stanton said the projects’ focus is on improving Mesa’s ability to make the most of its water supply.
April 23, 2024
On this episode of “Word,” we talk religion and politics with NPR National Political Correspondent and co-host of NPR’s "Politics Podcast," Sarah McCammon. We also chat with the winner of the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry, Craig Santos Perez.
April 23, 2024
Conservation groups have asked the U.S. Forest Service to lay out how it will manage mined uranium as it’s transported across northern Arizona. KJZZ posed those concerns to Energy Fuels, the company that owns the Pinyon Plain Mine just south of the Grand Canyon.
April 23, 2024
George Alan Kelly, 75, was charged with second-degree murder in the Jan. 30, 2023, shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, 48, who lived just south of the border in Nogales, Mexico.
April 22, 2024
In her bid to win reelection, Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff) wants her primary opponent, Rep. David Cook (R-Globe), disqualified from the ballot.
April 22, 2024
The National Hockey League is still calling Alex Meruelo an owner while the clock ticks on his deadline to reactivate the Arizona Coyotes. Holding the title despite players having been sent to Utah means Meruelo can also still make money from sports gambling in Arizona.
April 22, 2024
Supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons said Monday they will sell more of their stores in an effort to quell the federal government’s concerns about their proposed merger.
April 22, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he’s preparing to introduce emergency legislation to state lawmakers that would offer Arizona abortion providers an expedited path to getting licensed there.
April 22, 2024