Jacqueline Edwards
Jacqueline Edwards has joined the city of Phoenix as its new Human Services Department director.
She has spent the last 14 years with Maricopa County, serving in various positions within the …
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world hasn’t seen anything like the unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza since World War II, and it would take at least until 2040 to restore the homes …
A federal judge has sentenced a California scuba dive boat captain to four years in custody and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel …
Valley & State
2024 ELECTION
With three seats set to open on the Deer Valley Unified School District’s governing board this November, nine potential candidates have filed statements of interest to run.
Authorities say a man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding two others in a domestic violence incident on the Navajo Nation earlier this week has been arrested. Navajo Police say …
Environment
PHOENIX — As the temperatures rise and the sun casts its golden glow over the Arizona landscape, more people are drawn outside to embrace the beauty of the outdoors.
However, amid the …
Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion. In 2024, the question …
VALLEY BUSINESS
A Trader Joe’s market is going to be built in a shopping center on the northeast corner of Ocotillo Road and Arizona Avenue in South Chandler.
Not many details, including an opening date, …
MURDER CHARGE
A 19-year-old man was arrested Wednesday and booked on a first-degree murder charge in the February death of a man in the West Valley, Phoenix police said.
Richard Salazar also faces an armed …
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is following through on promises to undo a long-dormant law that bans all abortions except those done to save a patient’s life. A signing ceremony was scheduled …
Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban will soon be gone from the law books, but not from the campaign trail. Even after the state Legislature voted Wednesday to repeal a law banning nearly all abortions, …
Abortion is still consuming U.S. state legislatures, courts and political campaigns two years after the draft of a Supreme Court decision that would upend the status quo was leaked. On Wednesday, a …
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