Kitchen-inspection reports for day cares and schools are available – if you look
PHOENIX – Maricopa County restaurant inspectors include day care services and school kitchens in their assessments, but schools are not required to notify parents of violations
Thin on broadband: Tribal areas still struggle with lagging technology
WASHINGTON - To some Hopi, "just Google it," is an inside joke - only about 29% of Hopi households have broadband internet access, compared to 79% in Arizona and 78% nationwide. On tribal lands across Arizona, fewer than half the homes have broadband access, stifling business, health and schooling.
Doing more time: Ex-felons face long odds, long wait to restore voting rights
TUCSON - The years paying off their debt to society is just the starr for ex-felons who are trying to regain their votiing rights - they face more years and hurdles in Arizona, one of the more difficult states to get the vote back. But former felons say it's worth the fight, and some state officials and advocates agree.
Robocalls hit 3 million a day in Arizona, but help may be on the way
WASHINGTON – Despite efforts to block them, robocalls keep coming, with almost 3,2 million such calls made per day to Arizona phone numbers in the first four months of this year. New regulations and new technologies might help stem the tide, but not everyone is convinced.
Battling tariffs, drought and milk substitutes, Arizona dairy farmers expand their global reach
PHOENIX – Arizona dairy farmers are forming partnerships and seeking larger foreign markets in the wake of tariffs and persistent drought.
Low and slow: Car clubs celebrate unique lowrider culture of the Southwest
SAN DIEGO – San Diego’s Day at the Bay showcase wows audiences with lowriders from car clubs across the Southwest.
Migrant medical costs, Arcosanti experiment and day care inspections
PHOENIX – In Tuesday’s 5 p.m. broadcast, viewers decided which interviews they wanted to see on air. But we’re offering all the content here: the full stories, the in-depth interviews and the community comments.
Census: Maricopa County – again – saw country’s biggest population gains
WASHINGTON - Maricopa County again saw the largest population increase of any county in the nation last year, adding 81,244 residents to make eight straight years of gains, according to new Census estimates, which show every county in Arizona but Santra Cruz adding population in 2018.
Arizona becomes the first state to recognize all out-of-state occupational licenses
PHOENIX – Gov. Doug Ducey signed HB 2569, which recognizes occupational licenses granted by other states.
‘Helping humanity’: Senior centers use crafting skills to give back
TEMPE – Senior centers across Arizona are using their crafting skills for a good cause, creating blankets, caps and scarves for communities, organizations and nonprofits in need.
Religious group claims ‘Bodies Revealed’ exhibit uses cadavers of Chinese prisoners
SCOTTSDALE – The Odysea Aquarium says its “Bodies Revealed” exhibit in Scottsdale uses donated bodies to teach hundreds of paying customers about human anatomy. But a religious group and other critics for decades have claimed the cadavers are of persecuted Chinese prisoners displayed without consent.
A long road: Opioid-addicted rural residents travel hundreds of miles to reach methadone clinics
MORENCI – Most of Arizona’s 12 methadone clinics are in the Phoenix area, leaving rural residents recovering from opioid use to travel miles for such treatment.
