Senate approves historic $2 trillion economic stimulus package
By McKenzie Sadeghi | Wednesday, March 25, 2020
WASHINGTON - The Senate gave unanimous approval late Wednesday to a historic $2 trillion economic stimulus package that calls for direct payments to taxpayers and hundreds of billions in relief for small businesses and targeted industries, like airlines.
ASU students describe rush home from China after coronavirus
By Hannah Foote | Friday, Feb. 28, 2020
LOS ANGELES – ASU students studying with the Chinese Language Flagship Program in Nanjing, China returned home as COVID-19 advances.
Anti-social media: McSally brush-off of reporter as ‘hack’ goes viral
By Christopher Scragg and Joshua Gerard Gargiulo | Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020
WASHINGTON - Impeachment may have been the business of the day, but Arizona Sen. Martha McSally's videotaped brush-off of a CNN reporter as a "liberal hack" was the moment of the day, earning the freshman senator a rebuke from the network - and tens of thousands of Twitter likes.
Where should Phoenix build the Latino Cultural Center?
By Christina Estes | Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019
PHOENIX – As Phoenix moves forward with plans to build a Latino Cultural Center, the location remains uncertain.
Before the flood: System to predict rising water is tested in Phoenix and Flagstaff
By Jordan Elder | Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019
APACHE JUNCTION — New technology is using image processing to increase public safety when water rises.
Court upholds conviction in ‘cold-blooded’ murder of Phoenix family
By Miranda Faulkner | Thursday, July 25, 2019
WASHINGTON - A federal court rejected the appeal of an Arizona death-row inmate who murdered four Phoenix family members in their home in retribution for a petty theft by another of the family members, saying it presented "one of, if not the, strongest" cases for the death penalty it had seen in years.
Gallego wins big in runoff to become second woman elected Phoenix mayor
By Austen Bundy | Wednesday, March 13, 2019
PHOENIX– Kate Gallego won the runoff election for Phoenix mayor Tuesday night, handily defeating former City Councilman and firefighter Daniel Valenzuela.
Thousands march in downtown Phoenix to celebrate MLK Day
By Kelsey Mo | Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019
PHOENIX – On Martin Luther King Day, thousands of people marched in the streets of downtown Phoenix to remember him
Violence burdens ‘bone and skin’: Indigenous women run in prayer to outpace pain
By Carly Henry | Friday, Nov. 16, 2018
BAPCHULE – Women in the Gila River Indian Community prayed for an end to violence against indigenous people days before a new report found that Arizona has the third-highest number of missing and murdered indigenous women cases.
Raising the steaks: Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald sees giving back as his personal responsibility
By Margaret Naczek | Friday, Aug. 3, 2018
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald is entering his 15th season with the Cardinals and continues to carry his spirit of giving to the Arizona community and nationwide.
From ‘Average Joe’ to ‘Ninja Warrior’: Popularity of TV show spurs growth in ninja-training gyms
By Margaret Naczek | Monday, July 30, 2018
SCOTTSDALE - Tucked into an alcove of the AZ on the Rocks climbing facility, Lee Kates works on a ring-climb obstacle. The 36-year-old uses two small red rings and the momentum of his body to climb up and down the pegs of a wooden plank.
Proposed law would require Arizona to compile statistics on veteran suicide
By Nick Serpa | Monday, July 23, 2018
PHOENIX – Three years after a veteran’s suicide, friends and family call legislators to action.