From out of baseball to Olympian: Jeremy Wolf’s path to Aliyah and Team Israel
By Tyler Dunn | Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019
SCOTTSDALE – Scottsdale’s Jeremy Wolf is a Jewish-American Olympian with a heart for baseball’s minor leaguers.
Arizona lawmaker brings personal story, gun-reform plea to Washington
By Megan U. Boyanton | Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019
WASHINGTON - State Rep. Jennifer Longdon, D-Phoenix, didn't need to tell congressional lawmakers Thursday about the harm firearms can do: She showed them, when she rolled her wheelchair into a House hearing on the costs of gun violence.
House panel’s votes on gun bills give likely preview of battles to come
By Wissam Melhem | Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019
WASHINGTON - A House panel worked late into the night in a sometimes heated, sometimes emotional hearing on gun-control bills Tuesday, a potential preview of congressional debates to come in the weeks after a string of mass shootings.
The tough gets tougher: McSally again faces primary race in Senate bid
By Wissam Melhem | Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019
WASHINGTON - Arizona's Senate race, already expected to be one of the toughest in the nation, got tougher this week when Phoenix businessman Daniel McCarthy announced a Republican primary challenge to incumbent Sen. Martha McSally in her 2020 re-election bid.
With so much construction, why is affordable housing so scarce in Phoenix?
By Katherine Davis-Young | Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019
PHOENIX – Phoenix is booming, but much of the new housing is unaffordable to people who aren’t wealthy.
Without federal disaster aid, states are left to fend for themselves
By Drew Hutchinson and Bailey Lewis | Friday, Aug. 16, 2019
BONDURANT, Wyo. – Without a federal major disaster declaration, FEMA assistance isn’t available. Either states pay to rebuild, or people are on their own.
Wildfire-vulnerable communities search for ways to live with growing threat
By Anton L. Delgado and Dustin Patar | Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019
SHINGLETOWN, Calif. – Despite federal fire suppression costs quadrupling and an increase in employed firefighters, the damages caused by wildfires has increased fivefold.
Vulnerable communities adapting to ever-present threat of wildfires
By Anton L. Delgado | Monday, Aug. 12, 2019
PINETOP-LAKESIDE – Pinetop-Lakeside is among the latest U.S. cities to take advantage of a federal program aimed at creating “fire-adapted” communities where humans and forest meet.
From dance studios to ASU to possibly the Olympics, breakdancing surges in popularity
By Brady Vernon | Monday, Aug. 5, 2019
MESA – What started as a fad in the 1970s is now being considered for Olympic competition. Breakdancing is back and finding its way to dance studios and college classrooms.
McSally, Kelly raise $13.9 million for anticipated 2020 Senate race
By Miranda Faulkner | Friday, July 19, 2019
WASHINGTON - Arizona Republican Sen. Martha McSally and her likely Democratic challenger, Mark Kelly, reported raising just under $13.9 million in the first six months of this year and had a combined $10.3 million on hand for an election that's still 16 months away, new campaign finance reports show.
‘It’s been a good summer’: Phoenix Suns regroup as season approaches
By Jacob Rosenfarb | Wednesday, July 17, 2019
PHOENIX – As the Phoenix Suns look to secure their first winning record in six seasons, the front office assured onlookers that the moves they’ve made this summer will provide both immediate and long-term success.
From Bowling Green to South Korea: Merrill Kelly’s path to Diamondbacks was humbling one
By Brady Vernon | Tuesday, July 2, 2019
PHOENIX – Diamondbacks’ Merrill Kelly, a 30-year-old rookie, has experienced it all on his way to the majors