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VIDEO: Giving back is a way of life

12/14/2023
Lori Jensen has always had a passion for community service, but it hit particularly hard just before businesses and school closed for the pandemic, in 2020.

Chandler resident in overseas Peace Corps service

10/23/2023
Chandler resident Kajal Dave is among the first Peace Corps volunteers to return to overseas service since the agency’s unprecedented global evacuation in March 2020. The Peace Corps …

Arizona COVID-19 cases double since June, as virus …

9/11/2023
First lady Jill Biden’s positive COVID-19 test this weekend was the latest, and most high-profile, reminder that cases are once again on the rise in the U.S. and in Arizona, where new infections per week have more than doubled since early July.

Preparing for a new strain

8/22/2023
Three years on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus still looms as hospital cases around the country are still reporting infections. Experts are now finding that many current COVID-19 cases are from a new variant named EG.5 or “Eris”

$307M overpaid by state from Pandemic Unemployment …

7/21/2023
PHOENIX — Arizona overpaid recipients of a federally funded unemployment program $307 million more than they were entitled.

Peoria Unified Superintendent tenders resignation

5/23/2023
Peoria Unified School District Superintendent Jason Reynolds has tendered his resignation, effective June 30.

Arizona Supreme Court upholds ruling on halting …

5/3/2023
PHOENIX — About 100,000 Arizonans who got their extra federal unemployment benefits cut off early during COVID by then-Gov. Doug Ducey because he instead wanted to get them to go to work at restaurants and hotels are not going to get the funds they lost.

Here is why Peoria residents' utility bills will go up …

3/1/2023
Peoria residents could expect a utility rate increase of more than 10% in 2024, according to a recent city council study session. The jump reflects a number of significant economic changes over …

Peoria council to discuss utility rate hikes

2/20/2023
Peoria City Council will discuss possible utility rate increases for fiscal year 2024 in a study session at a public meeting, 4 p.m., Feb. 21.

Looking to a ‘normal’ return to Cactus League …

2/16/2023
Spring training has had a rough go at it the last few years.

CUSD to address mental health in study session

2/3/2023
Just before public comments at a Jan. 18 meeting, CUSD Governing Board Chair Jason Olive said the board plans to hold a study session on mental health among students prior to its regular meeting on …

Christian evangelists back on the streets after …

10/10/2022
Jehovah’s Witnesses have resumed their public ministry after a two-year pause due to the pandemic.  Representatives of the Christian denomination can once again be seen spreading their …