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ARIZONA NEWS | Mar 1, 2023North Phoenix church rallying for earthquake survivors in Turkey, Syria
A north Phoenix church with ties in Turkey are rallying for earthquake survivors in the transcontinental country and also Syria.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 29, 2022Arizona traffic fatalities fall in 1st quarter as nationwide deaths increase
While the rest of the nation was posting a record increase in traffic fatalities in the first quarter of 2022, highway deaths in Arizona were falling by nearly a third, according to a recent report.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 28, 2021Mesa lab looking for participants to take part in trials for COVID-19 therapeutic pills
A Mesa lab is looking for people willing to participate in a study to develop COVID-19 therapeutic pills.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 22, 2021Yuma sees biggest year-over-year migrant spike as temporary shelters make a comeback
Temporary tent shelters have reopened in Yuma as migrants from the Caribbean and South America resulted in a 1,038% surge in apprehensions year-over-year through the sector, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 17, 2021Phoenix’s TGen joins research effort seeks to understand ‘long COVID’
What is "long COVID," and could you be suffering from it? Phoenix's Translational Genomics Research Institute is involved in a new study to increase understanding of the condition.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 1, 2021Partnership bridges digital divide to connect Valley kids to school
The city of Phoenix is partnering with multiple organizations to use federal CARES Act dollars to boost broadband for education and bridge the digital divide.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 27, 2021Former Afghan interpreter for US Army desperate to bring his family to the Valley
An Afghan-American man who is a former linguist for the U.S. Army is desperate to evacuate his extended family from violence and the terrorist takeover of Afghanistan, pleading with officials to get them to the Valley where he lives.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 11, 2021National inflation rate 4-point increase could be canceling pay raises
Did you get a pay raise at work? Perhaps the national 5.4% inflation rate laid it to waste.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 9, 2021Arizona leads nation for small business job growth, report finds
A payroll company found Arizona now leads the nation in small business job growth as the state's index has risen nearly 6% over the past year.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 22, 2021Arizona is No. 3 in nation for job recovery out of pandemic, report finds
A recent report found Arizona's job recovery rate coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic is 87%, only behind Idaho and Utah for the best in the nation.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 16, 2021Marmot hitchhikes hundreds of miles to Glendale from Colorado
The yellow-bellied marmot with its high-pitched shriek is non-native to Arizona, but one ended up in Glendale hundreds of miles from home.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 14, 2021ASU research finds likely increase in false guilty pleas during pandemic
An Arizona State University simulation found more people in the criminal justice system would take a plea deal to avoid time in jail and possible exposure to COVID-19 - whether they were guilty of a crime or not.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 28, 2021Valley renters catching up, fewer fear eviction as protections near end
The U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey found only 5.2% of renters across Arizona are behind on rent as eviction protections due to the COVID-19 pandemic end on July 31.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 17, 2021Sky Harbor Starbucks workers say licensee shouldn’t get COVID aid
Workers of a licensee that runs five Starbucks stores at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport are asking the city council not to provide millions of dollars in rent relief due to a lack of additional staff being hired.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 16, 2021Tempe company producing device to restrain suspects from distance
A growing number of law enforcement departments are deploying a remote apprehension tool produced by a Tempe company that discharges a cord to restrain uncooperative suspects.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 3, 2021Delivery companies settle with Arizona AG over discrimination claims
Three food delivery companies have settled with Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich's Office over allegations of discriminatory practices from offering price distinctions based on a restaurant owner's race.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 28, 2021Most Arizonans oppose audit of Maricopa County election, poll finds
A majority of Arizonans oppose the audit of Maricopa County's 2020 November election ordered by state Senate Republicans, according to a new poll.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 21, 2021Solutions in sight for metro Phoenix housing crunch, experts say
Experts offer no easy fixes for those trying to find homes in an increasingly expensive Arizona market, but fear not as they still offer solutions.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 16, 2021Arizona AARP wants more focus on nursing homes as virus metrics lower
COVID-19 deaths and infections are coming down in skilled nursing homes in Arizona, but the state's chapter of AARP says an eighth of them have under a week’s supply of personal protective equipment on hand and a fifth of nursing homes are short-staffed.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 15, 2021Many Valley owners expected to keep homes after foreclosure pauses end
RealtyTrac thinks most Phoenix metro residents will stay in their homes even when the pauses on foreclosures eventually expire.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 12, 2021Chandler employees get $5.5M in bonuses from pandemic savings
More than 1,500 city of Chandler employees are splitting $5.5 million in bonuses from savings due to COVID-19 pandemic hiring freezes.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 8, 2021Sen. Sinema wants compassionate border solutions to end migrant surge
U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is looking for compassionate solutions to the surges of unaccompanied migrant children at the border -- which she called "unsustainable."
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ARIZONA NEWS | Mar 31, 2021Arizona income growth led nation in 2020 despite pandemic, report finds
Arizona had the highest jump in personal income in the nation last year despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released last week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Mar 30, 2021Many Arizonans fear loss of their home when eviction moratorium ends
Delinquent Arizona renters are fearing the worst once the renewed federal eviction moratorium expires on June 30, a Zillow study found.