Hotshots: Support, criticism follow news of new Arizona pro football team’s name
TEMPE – A new football league has stirred controversy with the name "Hotshots." For some, its a tribute to the Granite Mountain Hotshots. For others, it's exploiting a tragedy.
Bias-response teams criticized for sanitizing campuses of conservative voices
Conservative students, controversial national speakers and followers of the alt-right movement claim colleges are sanitizing campuses of dissent, in violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech.
Toilet water mold, fast food and futons: Many minor leaguers live below poverty line
Baseball is a $10 billion a year industry, but many of its minor leaguers live well below the poverty level.
Mowers in sheep’s clothing: Flock clears vegetation around solar panels in southeastern Arizona
These sheep work for food, eating mesquite and tall grass at a solar farm that powers 20,000 homes in southern Arizona. Livestock landscapers can be used to trim the land around freeways or cut down on the brush that feeds wildfires.
Water savings and checking accounts: How cities bank on future supply underground
The snowpack feeding the region’s rivers was near record low this year, so managers are looking to future water supplies underground.
#RedForEd: Teachers ‘walk-in’ at Arizona schools as strike threat looms
Arizona teachers “walked in” to classes for the second time in as many weeks Wednesday as Red for Ed leaders debated whether to shut down schools statewide with a strike.
Arizona communities receive thousands of dollars to clean up contaminated or blighted ‘brownfields’ properties
Throughout Arizona, local communities have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from an Environmental Protection Agency grant to clean up, redevelop or demolish properties once contaminated by hazardous substances or pollutants.
Lawmaker: Lack of regulation on Arizona tattoo industry is ‘shocking’
Rep. Kelli Butler, D-Paradise Valley, introduced a bill that would require body art establishments - which covers places that do tattoos, piercings, branding and scarifications - to get a health certificate.
As monsoon storms grow stronger, county works to keep trails safe for park visitors
As researchers predict monsoons to grow more powerful, Maricopa County parks may face increased erosion from runoff.
Construction claws back from recession, ‘new normal’ still unclear
WASHINGTON - A decade after the start of the Great Recession, Arizona's hard-hit construction industry has come back, but experts are wondering how far it can go this time.
Her son gone, mother reaches out to prevent student suicides
PHOENIX – “I love how you treat me,” was one of the last things 18-year-old Mitchell Warnock said to his mother before committing suicide a year ago.
Some Arizona residents push back against police through protests, ballot box
PHOENIX – As thousands of protesters hit the Phoenix streets in July 2016 to protest the killings of black people by police, the Rev. Jarrett Maupin felt their anger.
