Universities implement travel restrictions, self-quarantines amid spread of COVID-19
By Grace Lieberman | Friday, March 6, 2020
PHOENIX – Universities in Arizona and around the U.S. are implementing new travel restrictions and possible student quarantines to minimize potential danger related to COVID-19. Some schools have halted all nonessential campus-related travel to countries with high watch level ratings as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Four Corners drought in 2018 was worsened by human-caused climate change, researchers say
By Nicholas Gerbis | Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020
PHOENIX – New research says human-induced climate change played a big role in the Four Corners drought of 2017 and 2018, which caused $3 billion in losses and prompted an emergency drought declaration on the Navajo Nation Reservation.
Above par: With perfect weather, wild 16th hole, Phoenix Open delivers
By Squire Harrington | Monday, Feb. 3, 2020
SCOTTSDALE – Blue skies, competitive golf and a high energy 16th hole result in a well receiver Phoenix Open.
The hidden homeless: Growing number of older people living on the streets
By Emily Dean | Monday, Jan. 6, 2020
PHOENIX – Central Arizona Shelter Services says it helped more than 1,300 people older than 55 who are experiencing homelessness in the 2018-19 fiscal year. That’s nearly 30% of the total the agency served. And homelessness for Arizona residents is on the rise, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security.
Latinos left behind as big tech continues to grow
By Emily Dean | Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019
TUCSON – The tech industry continues to grow nationwide, but its workforce still is nearly 70% white. Less than 7% of workers are Hispanic.
Role reversal: Teen caring for father with Alzheimer’s shares her experience
By Grayson Schmidt | Friday, Dec. 13, 2019
CERRITOS, Calif. – Emily Jenkins has helped care for her father since he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease about 10 years ago. She just turned 19.
#ElPasoStrong: Walmart near border reopens three months after mass shooting
By Emily Dean | Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019
EL PASO, Texas – Walmart associates return to work at the Cielo Vista Walmart three months after a gunman massacred 22 people and wounded 24 others.
Water from air: ASU professor’s technology produces clean drinking water around the globe
By Chelsea Hofmann | Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019
PHOENIX – Zero Mass Water, a company created by ASU professor Cody Friesen, uses solar panel technology to produce clean water from the air for local schools and underserved communities across the globe.
Johnson & Johnson settlement on surgical mesh includes $2.8 million for Arizona
By Emily Dean | Friday, Oct. 18, 2019
PHOENIX – Arizona will receive $2.8 million of a nearly $117 million settlement from Johnson & Johnson over safety concerns of a surgical mesh product.
ICE officials say immigration crackdowns don’t make them the ‘bad guys’
By Emily Dean | Friday, Sept. 27, 2019
PHOENIX – Albert Carter, acting field office director of Enforcement Removal Operations, says ICE officials are just doing their job to secure public safety. Arizona immigration activist Salvador Reza disagrees.
Report: Using funds to keep parks open in government shutdown violated law
By Kailey Broussard and , | Friday, Sept. 6, 2019
WASHINGTON - The Trump Administration violated federal law when it diverted funds for national park improvements toward keeping places like Grand Canyon National Park open during the last government shutdown, a new report from the Government Accountability Office said.
State boards waste little time approving professional licenses under new law
By Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola | Monday, Sept. 2, 2019
WASHINGTON - The state is already approving licenses under a new law that requires most professional licensing boards and commissions to accept valid out-of-state licenses, avoiding the cost and hassle of training and testing for an Arizona license to do what they already know how to do.