The initiative is part of a nationwide effort to bring broadband internet to U.S. communities — especially rural and Indigenous communities where connectivity is harder to come by.
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April 24, 2024
USCIS officials say the new centers are opening in Ankara, Turkey, and Doha, Qatar. And they’re meant to increase capacity for refugee processing and facilitate safe, lawful and orderly migration.
April 23, 2024
U.S. citizens with undocumented relatives are renewing their calls to the Biden administration to protect their families from deportation through a special immigration status called parole.
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
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
More than 250 volunteers from 41 utilities across 16 states are expected to travel between now and July to the largest reservation in the U.S. to donate their time and talents during the fourth annual Light Up Navajo mutual aid project.
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April 22, 2024
Jurors deliberating a case that accuses an Arizona rancher of fatally shooting a Mexican man near the border last year say they’re at an impasse. Prosecutors say on Jan. 30, 2023, 75-year-old Nogales resident George Alan Kelly shot and killed Gabriel Cuen Buitimea as he crossed Kelly’s ranch with other migrants.
April 20, 2024
The Nickelodeon show "The Casagrandes" has been off the air for the couple of years, but the family is now back on-screen — this time in movie form.
April 19, 2024
A case against an Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican migrant last year near Nogales has gone to the jury for deliberation.
April 18, 2024
The program is called Lighthouse, and it’s run by the Pima County Industrial Development Authority. It’s the latest project of an initiative launched in 2012 to address housing affordability in southern Arizona.
April 17, 2024
The president of the Navajo Nation said he wants the tribal government to pass uranium transportation regulations to restrict uranium from being transported across tribal lands.
April 17, 2024
In the last few years, we’ve seen more attention paid to a devastating — and evasive — issue for Indigenous communities: missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit and transgender people. Reporter Chelsea Curtis is working to change it.
April 17, 2024
Some southern Arizona groups are also recommending people act now to get medication abortion pills — which use a combination of drugs to incite an abortion and can be done at home.
April 17, 2024
Before there was a United States Border Patrol, the customs service was the first line of defense along the U.S.-Mexico border. Their headquarters — now designated by a historical marker — still stands.
April 16, 2024
The resolution says that law infringes on the reproductive rights and autonomy of Arizona residents. It calls on county attorneys, law enforcement agencies and medical professionals statewide to allow residents to pursue healthcare — including abortions.
April 16, 2024
President Joe Biden issued a memo in February that gave some Palestinians already in the U.S. what’s called Deferred Enforced Departure. It’s a special, temporary immigration status that shields recipients from deportation because of violence or other issues they’d face going back home.
April 15, 2024
The trial of an Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting an unarmed Mexican migrant last year has entered its fourth week.
April 15, 2024
More than 31 million immigrants are already naturalized U.S. citizens or likely eligible to do so this year, according to data analyzed by the advocacy group American Immigration Council.
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April 15, 2024
Arizona is on pace for a nearly 50% jump in arrivals this year. But, we don’t see headlines about that population coming to our shores. Julia Gelatt with the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute joined The Show to talk about the difference between the two.
April 12, 2024
“Bad Indian: Hiding in Antelope Canyon” premiered at the Phoenix Film Festival and tells the story of Hastiin Tadidinii — whose name translates to "Corn Pollen Man" and who avoided the Long Walk forced on the Navajos starting in 1863.
April 12, 2024
