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Grijalva says Biden should get out of Presidential race

He is the second House Democrat to call for a new nominee.

Former Arizona Attorney General and Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard speaks surrounded by boxes of sheets with signatures that Make Elections Fair Arizona need to get their measure to qualify for the ballot at the state Capitol on Wednesday, July 3, 2024.

Arizona group aiming to institute open primaries submits signatures to get on the ballot

The group says they’ve gathered 584,124 signatures, far above the 383,923 threshold they needed to meet to get the measure on the ballot.

Deportation of I.W.W. Strikers from Bisbee, Arizona. From the Los Mineros Photograph Collection.

The Buzz: Revisiting an historic Arizona labor dispute

A look back 107 years to the deportation of pro-union miners from Arizona mines.

A crowd rallied together to support Arizona for Abortion Access as the organization submitted more than double the signatures needed to place the right to abortion access on the November ballot on Wednesday, July 3, 2024 in Phoenix.

Arizonans rally for reproductive rights: Record-breaking signatures to secure abortion access on ballot

Arizona for Abortion Access gathers over 823,000 signatures, doubling the required number, to place the right to abortion on the November ballot.

Adelita Grijalva, Pima County Board of Supervisors Chair and Laura Conover, Pima County District Attorney and the Pima County Historic Courthouse in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, July 2. Grijalva and Conover held a press conference to talk about how Pima County would address the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, which allows communities to fine and arrest houseless people for sleeping in public.

Pima County officials address challenges of homelessness following Supreme Court ruling

Local leaders highlight need for resources and humane solutions.

Katia Lamer, director for the Center for Multiscale Applied Sensing at the Brookhaven National Laboratory who leads the team that drives the mobile weather trucks on Tuesday, July 2, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz. Lamer says the lack of climate data can make it difficult to quantify inequities in regional heat and air quality.

Arizona researchers tackle urban heat with innovative weather data collection

UA team partners with DOE’s Brookhaven Lab to study and mitigate extreme heat in the Southwest.

Why "Breaking Bread" is a different approach to political discussion.

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Views of Havasupai Gardens from the top of Bright Angel Trail at Grand Canyon National Park, Thursday, Aug. 31. In 1928, the National Park Service instituted policies that forced the Havasupai Tribe out from Ha'a Gyoh, the vibrant riparian area close to the Colorado River in the inner canyon where they once lived. Colloquially and offensively, known as "Indian Gardens," it wasn’t until last year, that the National Park Service on behalf of the Havasupai Tribe, submitted a letter to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names, to change the name to Havasupai Gardens.

Texas man dies while hiking at Grand Canyon National Park

Park officials said that during the summer, temperatures on exposed parts of the trail can reach over 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius) in the shade.

DFFM Tucson crew members working the southeast side of the fire.

Evacuation orders lifted for some Arizona residents forced from their homes days ago by a wildfire

The Boulder View Fire was 19% contained Sunday after charring nearly 6 square miles.

The Boulder Fire near Carefree, AZ on June 28, 2024

Arizona wildfire advances after forcing evacuations near Phoenix

As of Saturday night the fire was 0% contained.

Scorching heat in the US Southwest kills three migrants in the desert near the Arizona-Mexico border

The U.S. Border Patrol reported Friday that the bodies of two men, ages 44 and 18, and a 17-year-old girl were found in the desert.

Selena Barajas and Jonatan Giudice at the Latino Data Hub Action Lab hosted by Arizona State University Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research and the University of California Los Angeles Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) on Tuesday, June 25, in Phoenix, Ariz. The inaugural workshop welcomed a cohort of 15 policy advocates for data-driven community work.

ASU and UCLA launch Latino Data Hub Action Lab to empower, educate policy advocates

New initiative harnesses census data to inform policies impacting Latino communities in Arizona.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks about legal exceptions to the state's 15-week abortion law at her office in Phoenix on June 27, 2024.

AZ doctors can perform later-term abortions in emergencies, AG says

Mayes clarified the exceptions to Arizona law in an opinion released Thursday.

The Arizona state Capitol on March 3, 2020.

The Buzz: The coming state budget has its critics

Worries about shorted funding, misallocated funds and existing problems cause concern for some.

Transgender prison inmate assaulted by cellmate in Arizona gets $10K judgment in civil rights suit

She was seeking nearly $300,000 in damages.

Migrants wait to be processed after crossing into the United States near the end of a border wall Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, near Yuma, Ariz.

Homeland Security says border arrests fall more than 40% since Biden's halt to asylum processing

Border Patrol’s average daily arrests over a seven-day period have fallen below 2,400 from before President Joe Biden’s proclamation took effect June 5.

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