For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family. But these days many of the kernels in the package might …
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has postponed the reopening of its schools by one week due to ongoing flooding caused by heavy rains, as flood-related deaths since mid-March in the East African country …
Spain is in suspense as it waits for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to announce whether he will continue in office or leave. Sánchez shocked the country last week when he said he was taking five …
Valley & State
Local authorities say Interstate 40 has reopened in both directions as fire crews continue watch over a controlled burn of remaining fuel from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico …
ADOT
Reconstruction work as part of an ongoing freeway widening project in north Scottsdale will close the northbound Loop 101 off-ramp at Cactus Road beginning Monday, April 29, state transportation …
Health Care
TUCSON – Daniel Sestiaga remembers being in the COVID-19 ward of a hospital in late 2020. He tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 in June, then later tested negative, but he was …
FESTIVAL
Arizona’s largest Cinco de Mayo festival is returning to downtown Phoenix.
MCDOT
Maricopa County Department of Transportation crews have begun work on the Deer Valley Road bridge between 109th and 117th avenues in Peoria.
The bridge deck maintenance project will run through …
ADOPTION
Isabella – or Bella as she likes to be called – is a bubbly, outgoing teenager ready to take on the world.
WAR
Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at George Washington University sit in a tent to avoid the rain in Washington, Saturday, April 27, 2024.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
A University of Southern …
TRANSPORTATION
The Arizona Department of Transportation will have a free event May 7 in Mesa to help small businesses compete for transportation contracts that receive federal funding.
The business expo will …
Crews plan to extinguish a fire on Saturday night from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line that forced the closure of a stretch of Interstate 40. Some wreckage has been …
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