PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that state law doesn’t require Gov. Katie Hobbs to carry out the April 6 execution of a prisoner who was convicted of murder.
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PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear most of Republican Kari Lake’s appeal in a challenge of her defeat in the governor’s race but revived a claim that was dismissed by a trial court.
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PHOENIX – The FBI is investigating scams by fake rehab groups that target the Indigenous community, offering substance-abuse recovery or mental-health services at pop-up facilities to rake in government money, FBI officials say.
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SEDONA (AP) — More evacuation orders were issued Wednesday for some residents in northern Arizona due to flooding from rainfall and snowmelt.
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LOS ANGELES — A possible tornado touched down southeast of Los Angeles on Wednesday, ripping pieces of roofing off a line of commercial buildings and sending the debris twisting into the sky.
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GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — Former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly died Wednesday after a long illness, according to a family spokesman.
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WASHINGTON — A dispute between Jack Daniel’s and the Arizona makers of a squeaking dog toy that mimics the whiskey’s signature bottle gave the Supreme Court a lot to chew on Wednesday.
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SEDONA (AP) — More evacuation orders were issued Wednesday for some residents in northern Arizona due to flooding from rainfall and snowmelt.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities were investigating the discovery of a body found inside a burning trash can in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman charged with conspiracy and murder in connection with the deaths of her two children and her new husband's late wife will no longer face the death penalty, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Three bodies were found at a south Phoenix home Tuesday and police were investigating the case as a homicide.
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PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Yavapai County Superior Court officials were continuing to gather information Tuesday about Judge Celé Hancock’s arrest on suspicion of extreme DUI last weekend.
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PHOENIX — As a way to address the unique challenges Indigenous communities face concerning human trafficking, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office has entered into a partnership with the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona to launch a first-of-its-kind Train the Trainer program.
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PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday forbade all state agencies under her control from discriminating against workers based on their hair texture and style.
PHOENIX — A conservative advocacy group founded by the Koch brothers is asking a federal judge to quash a new voter-approved campaign finance laws aimed at exposing “dark money’’ contributions for political purposes.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed split Monday as it weighed a dispute involving the federal government and the Navajo Nation’s quest for water from the drought-stricken Colorado River.
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GLENDALE (AP) — Taylor Swift opened her U.S. concert series with a three-hour tour of her career.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Shannon Castellano and Travis Methvin should have spent this weekend seeing world-famous waterfalls on the Havasupai Tribe Reservation in northern Arizona.
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YUMA (AP) — Authorities in San Luis, Arizona, say they are receiving more complaints about 911 calls mistakenly going across the border to a San Luis in Mexico.
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PHOENIX — When biologists began their annual count of the Mexican wolf population in November, they hoped to find at least one more wolf than the previous year. They soon realized that the numbers far exceeded their expectations.
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FLAGSTAFF — Arizona Snowbowl has three terrain parks for freestyle snowboarding where riders can grind down rails, flow through halfpipes and fly through the air with various-sized jumps.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Only a handful of complaints out of hundreds of calls to a new state hotline for reporting race-based lessons have warranted investigation, Arizona’s top education official said Friday.
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PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs is expected sign an executive order banning discrimination based on hair.
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PHOENIX — Residents and tourists in northern Arizona tried to return to business as usual after evacuation orders triggered by rain and flooding were lifted Thursday morning.
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ANACORTES, Wash. — Two BNSF trains derailed in separate incidents in Arizona and Washington state on Thursday, with the latter spilling diesel fuel on tribal land along Puget Sound.
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A sharp drop in illegal border crossings that started in January after the Biden administration announced stricter immigration measures continued in February. Data released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection paints a picture of who is attempting to enter the country at a time of intense political controversy over immigration. Republicans are accusing President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of not doing enough to secure the southern border. U.S. Border Patrol officials encountered nearly 130,000 people trying to cross the border in February between the legal border crossings. That’s about the same as January’s number, and the agency says it's the lowest number of encounters per month since February 2021.
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GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK — A $208 million multi-year repair is planned for the Transcanyon Waterline that supplies water for the local community and millions of visitors to Grand Canyon National Park.
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TEMPE — Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego slammed independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona on Tuesday for backing a bank deregulation bill he says contributed to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, highlighting Sinema’s Wall Street ties as he campaigns for her seat.
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MESA, Ariz. — The deaths of two teenage girls in January have been ruled accidental with both drowning in a water retention basin, Mesa police said Tuesday.
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SAN LUIS, Ariz. — A prison inmate who walked off during work duty in San Luis was taken into custody Tuesday at a hotel in south Phoenix.
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PHOENIX — A body was recovered from a west Phoenix canal on Tuesday, according to authorities.
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Senators from the seven Western states in the Colorado River basin have been quietly meeting “for about a year,” to facilitate difficult discussions between the states over the future of the river.
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GLENDALE — It’s 6:30 p.m. on a school night, and a normally quiet residential street in Glendale is crowded with protesters, loudspeakers and angry shouts.
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MESA (AP) — Three Mesa police officers have been injured while fighting a man who refused to leave a coffee shop, authorities said Sunday.
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BUCKEYE (AP) — A woman accused in the disappearance and death of her 10-year-old adopted son in a Phoenix suburb has pleaded not guilty in the case and is facing a July 6 trial, according to authorities.
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LOW MOUNTAIN (AP) — Remembered as an inspirational, humble leader with a passion for education and commitment to his people, former Navajo Nation President Peterson Zah was honored Saturday with a funeral procession that stretched for 100 miles from western New Mexico into eastern Arizona.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Flooding is occurring in riverbeds and bottomlands along the Salt River east of downtown Phoenix due to dam releases following recent heavy snowmelt.
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PHOENIX — America’s schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era benefit programs have lapsed. There is growing concern about the effects on kids’ ability to learn.
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PHOENIX — The Arizona Jewish Historical Society is opening a new interactive activity as part of its exhibit “Stories of Survival: An Immersive Journey Through the Holocaust.”
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PHOENIX — Arizona won’t be banning what has been called “critical race theory’’ in public schools.
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PHOENIX — The Arizona Department of Education launched a hotline this week for people to report classroom lessons that use critical race theory or emotional support curriculum, concepts that have been the target of conservative outrage in recent years.
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PHOENIX — For the first time in history, an Arizona governor signed an executive order to officially establish a task force focused on addressing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis.
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HUACHUCA CITY, (AP) — Authorities have yet to release the name of a man suspected in a carjacking that ended in a crash involving multiple vehicles at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint outside Huachuca City.
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FLAGSTAFF — Peterson Zah, a monumental Navajo Nation leader who guided the tribe through a politically tumultuous era and worked tirelessly to correct wrongdoings against Native Americans, has died.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are looking for assurances from the U.S. Forest Service that the agency is taking preventative measures to ensure that future prescribed fires don't turn into disasters.
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PHOENIX — The Phoenix City Council has given overwhelming approval to a measure that would prevent landlords and property owners from discriminating against renters or buyers who rely on public assistance for income.
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PHOENIX — No Labels, which has pledged to create a pathway for an alternative candidate to run against the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees in 2024, will get a spot on the ballot in Arizona.
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PEORIA, Ariz. — Two two men are dead after apparently drowning in Lake Pleasant in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, authorities said Tuesday. Maricopa County Sheriff’s officials identified the victims as 28-year-old Christopher Govoni and 24-year-old Rogelio Ortiz. Their hometowns weren't immed…
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PHOENIX — Butterflies are back at the Desert Botanical Garden, which has been working for years to help boost the still-endangered monarch butterfly’s population, as well the milkweed plant it depends on for its lifecycle in the Grand Canyon State.
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A knife-wielding man has been fatally shot by Phoenix police at a home where two women were found injured, according to authorities.
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PHOENIX — In an effort to fund locally led landscape-scale conservation and restoration projects, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced grant funding opportunities available through the 2023 America the Beautiful Challenge.
