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Apache Junction city offices, library closed Jan. 17 …

1/15/2022
The city of Apache Junction will close all administrative offices on Monday, Jan. 17, in observation of Civil Rights Day. Emergency services through the police department will not be impacted by …

Lawmaker wants artificial turf in HOAs

1/12/2022
PHOENIX — Rep. John Kavanagh is in a turf war. Over turf. The Fountain Hills Republican has proposed a state law to override any rules of a homeowner association that requires lawns to be …

Buckeye council to run $370,000 water line

12/30/2021
The city of Buckeye’s Water Resources Department wants to run a 1.5-mile water reach line. It has $500,000 in its Fiscal 2022 budget to do so. As part of its capital improvement program, …

Abortion rights advocates rally vs. Arizona law

12/22/2021
PHOENIX — Abortion rights advocates are urging U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to spurn a bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to let Arizona immediately begin enforcing a new …

Fired Apache Junction firefighter’s appeal before …

12/13/2021
A nearly 25-year employee of the Superstition Fire and Medical District who is appealing his termination from employment before a state agency did not have a scheduled hearing in November as it was …

Buckeye takes steps to secure water supply

12/1/2021
BUCKEYE — The Buckeye City Council took two steps at a recent meeting to help secure its water supplies in the years ahead. By unanimously approving its consent agenda at its Nov. 16 …

Arizona governor: Roe v. Wade a ‘mistake’

12/1/2021
PHOENIX — The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion was a “mistake” that the justices need to correct, Gov. Doug Ducey said Wednesday. But he won’t say where …

Brnovich to Biden: Vaccines weren’t tested …

10/27/2021
PHOENIX — Attorney General Mark Brnovich is opening a new front in his legal battle with the Biden administration over mandates for some people to get vaccinated, raising questions about …

Arizona spending $30 million to 'rent' water rights

10/25/2021
PHOENIX — Arizona is dropping another $30 million in to buy — or, at least, rent — some water rights to help stave off further drought-related cuts in what the state gets from the …

Tucson state senator joins city’s vaccine mandate …

10/21/2021
PHOENIX — Seeking to force the issue, a Southern Arizona lawmaker wants Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate whether parts of a new Tucson policy requiring workers to be vaccinated …

Federal judge: Arizona abortion restrictions cannot go …

10/19/2021
PHOENIX — A federal judge has slapped back a bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to let the state start enforcing new abortion restrictions despite his order concluding they are likely …

9 crimes in 2020 at Northern Arizona University’s …

10/7/2021
There were nine crimes reported in 2020 at Northern Arizona University’s campus at Mesa Community College, according to a federally mandated campus-security report released this month. NAU …