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.
Street cred: ‘Muhammad Ali Way’ helps keep mission of boxing great, Barrow Institute going
By Jacob Rosenfarb | Monday, June 3, 2019
PHOENIX – On the third anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s passing, friends and family came together to honor the former heavyweight champion of the world with the unveiling of “Muhammad Ali Way” while also celebrating the declaration of June 3 as “Muhammad Ali Day” in the city of Phoenix.
Phoenix and some companies offer options for recycling holiday lights
By Nicholas Gerbis | Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018
PHOENIX – Phoenix now offers light-recycling services. Residents can drop off lights at one of two transfer stations, starting the day after Christmas.
Luke Air Force Base feels effects of national shortage of pilots, instructors
By Holly Bernstein | Monday, Dec. 3, 2018
GLENDALE – Luke Air Force Base is feeling the effects of a national pilot shortage. Their primary concern is staffing instructor pilots. Across the state, high school students are training in different areas impacted by this pilot shortage.
Nogales awaits arrival of U.S. troops as migrant caravan plods north
By Holly Bernstein | Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018
NOGALES – The Nogales mayor, a business owner and a resident are among the 20,000 residents in this Arizona border city awaiting the arrival of U.S. troops. President Trump ordered the deployment of 5,200 troops along the U.S. Mexico border to handle a migrant caravan traveling through Mexico from Central America.
Missing in Arizona Day: Searching for loved ones in bones and DNA
By Holly Bernstein | Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018
PHOENIX -- Families bring medical records, photos, fingerprints and DNA of missing relatives to forensics experts and law-enforcement officials at Missing in Arizona day, an Oct. 28 event on Arizona State University’s west campus. The event is mean to help identify those who disappeared.
Supreme Court lets stand ban on new uranium mines around Grand Canyon
By Brendan Campbell | Monday, Oct. 1, 2018
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court let stand an Obama-era 20-year moratorium on new uranium mines on about 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon, declining to hear a challenge to the ban by mining groups who said the ban was an overreach by government bureaucrats.
Gray wolf faces new challenge: National Academies of Sciences review
By Vandana Ravikumar | Friday, Sept. 14, 2018
WASHINGTON - The long-running fight over the Mexican gray wolf moved from southeast Arizona to a Washington conference room, where a National Academies of Sciences panel will try to determine if the Mexican gray wolf just another wolf, or is it a distinct - and endangered - breed of its own?
Election Day: Computer problems at polls vex voters in Maricopa County
By Stephanie Morse | Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018
Voters and local media report technical problems with computers in Arizona’s largest county as polls opened across the state Tuesday in the primary election.
‘You are not forgotten’: Arizona residents honor John McCain
By Staff | Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018
PHOENIX – Across Arizona, as a the sun set on a motorcade carrying the body of Sen. John McCain, others honored him in words and in actions.
Realtor group files petitions to bar Arizona from ever imposing a tax on services
By Rebecca Spiess | Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Although Arizona does not tax personal services, such as car repairs and child care, an Arizona Realtors group on Tuesday filed petitions bearing more than 400,000 signatures, hoping to get a measure on the November ballot that would bar the state from ever imposing such a tax.
That’s the ticket: Pro teams hope to create lifelong fans with student pass programs
By Jordan Kaye | Tuesday, July 3, 2018
PHOENIX -- In a city filled with transplants, Valley sports teams are left fighting for the fandom and support of many who have already pledged their allegiances to other teams.