PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is loosening statewide education rules to help alleviate a pandemic-aggravated shortage of substitute teachers.

TEMPE — A new report from Arizona State University has found that among homeless young adults who were surveyed, about 40% had experienced exploitation – sex trafficking or labor trafficking. And the young people who were trafficked were more likely to be addicted to drugs or alcohol and hav…

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security began requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination over the weekend for essential as well as nonessential travel across the U.S.-Mexico border.

PAGE -- Continued declines in runoff into the Colorado River are forcing federal officials to alter releases from Glen Canyon Dam and leading to a year-long closure of the Dangling Rope Marina at Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix police officer who was initially not expected to live after being seriously wounded in a Dec. 14 shooting has been released from a hospital and been taken to another medical facility for rehabilitation from his injuries, the Police Department said.

For the second time in roughly a month, Star Valley’s mayor has been arrested.

TUCSON (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a Pima County Jail inmate who was taken to a hospital after he became ill.

PHOENIX — With complaints and suggestions that there was fraud in 2020, state lawmakers began the process Monday of making major and minor alterations in state election laws.

TUCSON (AP) — An inmate at the Arizona state prison in Tucson has died and it appears to be a suicide, authorities said Monday.

TUCSON (AP) — A man who died after a confrontation at a Tucson apartment complex last week has been identified, police said Monday.

SIERRA VISTA (AP) — A 14-year-old boy suspected of building pipe bombs in his Douglas home will serve at least 18 months in a juvenile detention facility.

TUCSON -- Matt Ignacio is arguably one of the happiest faculty members at Arizona State University. In fact, he’s still pretty giddy after two years on the job.

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have identified a man who officers shot and killed after he reached for a gun.

MESA (AP) — The Phoenix Public Transit Department has received a $920,000 grant to manage the planning of 11 stations along a 5-mile streetcar route that would connect four activity centers in Mesa.

TUCSON (AP) — Twenty quilts stitched together with clothes abandoned on Arizona’s migrant trails will soon be displayed together for the first time at the Arizona History Museum in Tucson.

PHOENIX (AP) — A 20-year-old man has died after being shot in a Phoenix parking lot, police said Sunday.

TUCSON (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in a deadly crash involving a pedestrian near the University of Arizona campus, according to Tucson police.

WASHINGTON — Arizona once again ranked near the bottom of states on a national report card on highway safety laws, earning a “danger” rating as a state with just five of 16 recommended laws and no primary enforcement for seat belts.

TUCSON (AP) — Its testing capacity stretched by the increase in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron wave, Pima County is opening a large new drive-thru testing site with help from the federal government.

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police fatally shot a man who reached for a gun as officers tried to get him out of a car that had pulled into the driveway of a home belonging to somebody else early Saturday, a police department spokesperson said.

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say a teenage boy is dead and a man had serious injuries following what appears to have been an exchange of gunfire following a minor vehicle crash early Saturday morning.

RIO VERDE (AP) — Flooding rains have eroded the roads here until they resemble desert washes, but they still will carry you to someone’s version of paradise. The roads curl past multi-million dollar homes, lead to sprawling ranches and take people to views once thought impossible to see from…

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge gave a nine-year prison sentence Friday to a man for convictions for helping move a dead body in the 2014 death of an Arizona man who was bound, gagged and struck with an ax in a killing involving people affiliated with a white supremacist prison gang.

PHOENIX (AP) — A witness to the killing of a 37-year-old Phoenix woman led investigators to the western Arizona desert site where the victim was killed and her remains dumped, police said Friday.

PHOENIX (AP) — An El Mirage man faces charges accusing him of shooting at law enforcement officers on at least five different occasions in the Phoenix area.

PHOENIX – Improvement projects will require closures or lane restrictions in a few locations along Phoenix-area freeways this weekend (Jan. 21-24), according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. Drivers should allow extra travel time, consider alternate routes as needed and use cauti…

FLAGSTAFF — While Route 66 is well known for its iconic diners and gas stations, roadside attractions and highway signs, a new project aims to celebrate a lesser-known aspect often found across the tracks or a few blocks off of America’s main street: its diversity.

Gila County now has $24 million for a bridge over Tonto Creek.

Hairstylist Melissa McNeeley got off work a little early Friday only to become one of two motorists hit by random gunfire on State Route 87 north of Payson.

SCOTTSDALE (AP) — Two suspects have been arrested in Nevada and Arkansas in the fatal shooting of a man in a Scottsdale hotel parking lot, according to authorities.

PHOENIX — A Phoenix man accused of coordinating teams that were on standby to deliver guns to members and associates of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot will remain jailed until his trial on seditious conspiracy and other charges, a judge in Arizona rul…

PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix woman reported missing Sunday was found dead Thursday in a remote area of western Arizona, authorities said.

BUCKEYE (AP) — Police in the Phoenix suburb of Buckeye said the death of a 3-year-old boy at a home was due to a medical issue.

TUCSON (AP) — A Tohono O’odham woman was found not guilty Wednesday on federal misdemeanor charges stemming from her protest of border wall construction on her tribe’s ancestral land.

PHOENIX – Arizonans who have had COVID-19 shouldn’t count on immunity from the highly contagious omicron variant, which continues to spread in the state, a leading health expert said Wednesday.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (AP) — The Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force's aerial demonstration squadron, have begun a month-long training trip to New Mexico and Arizona in preparation for their 2022 show season.

PHOENIX (AP) — A man was found fatally shot in a Phoenix motel and police said they were investigating the case as a homicide.

KINGMAN (AP) — Human remains have been found in a hilly, desert area of Kingman, police said Wednesday.

KINGMAN (AP) — Two men were injured in the crash of a hang-glider style aircraft Wednesday in northwestern Arizona, Mohave County Sheriff's officials said.

GILBERT (AP) — A man has been arrested in connection with the death of his female roommate, according to Gilbert police.

SNOWFLAKE (AP) — A man in the town of Snowflake is in FBI custody after a live grenade was found in his RV.

TUCSON — Irina Panyushkina grew up in Siberia, near the Arctic Circle. She was raised on stories of explorers trudging through seas of ice to reach the North Pole.

PHOENIX — Selso Villegas knows the criminal justice system well. His daughter has battled a drug addiction for years, so for the past decade, he has cared for his grandchildren, including two grandsons who have been incarcerated. But as an American Indian, Villegas and his family face additi…

Judging by the amount of trash Rob Hawkins and fellow Forest Service volunteers have picked up already this year, it’s going to be a long messy one.

FLAGSTAFF (AP) — Coconino County is using federal relief funds to address a backlog of court cases that were delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

YUMA (AP) — Needing assistance due to staff shortages and increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients, including some requiring high levels of care, Yuma Regional Medical Center applied to the federal government for help.

PHOENIX (AP) — A driver has been arrested in connection with a crash that killed a motorcyclist in Phoenix, according to police said.

PAGE — The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced last week that it plans to adjust management protocols for the Colorado River in early 2022 to reduce monthly releases from Lake Powell in an effort to keep the reservoir from dropping farther below 2021’s historic lows.

A Payson town councilor is suing a local group he helps oversee.