#ElPasoStrong: Walmart near border reopens three months after mass shooting
By Emily Mae 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 Mae 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 Mae 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 | 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.
Spry rollers: Figure skaters on wheels committed to their sport
By Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola | Thursday, June 27, 2019
MESA – Phoenix Roller Sports Club practices figure-skating on wheels
On the border of a new future: Young Venezuelans in Peru
By Molly Duerig | Monday, June 17, 2019
Youth emigrating from Venezuela experience a mix of optimism and apprehension about starting their new lives in Peru.
Coming of age: ASU golf coach Thurmond takes daughters on trips of a lifetime
By Sebastian Emanuel | Friday, June 14, 2019
PHOENIX – Arizona State's Matt Thurmond has a special birthday gift for his daughters when they turn 14.
Pima official defends clean-water rule that farmers blast as burdensome
By Miranda Faulkner | Wednesday, June 12, 2019
WASHINGTON - Both sides at a Senate hearing on the Waters of the U.S. rule agreed they want clean water, but a Pima County official said a Trump plan would open the door to pollution while farm groups said an Obama-era rule was too burdensome and confusing to be effective.
Peaches and team: 7-year-old cancer patient finds support from all-girls baseball teammates
By Sebastian Emanuel | Thursday, June 6, 2019
CHANDLER – When they learned Leighton Accardo was battling cancer, teammates on her all-girls baseball team rallied around her.
The winners and losers in Arizona’s $11.8 billion budget
By Tanner Puckett | Wednesday, May 29, 2019
PHOENIX – Teachers, victims of child sex abuse and low-income kids were among the winners in the budget the Legislature passed late Monday.