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The Arizona State Legislature in Phoenix.

Arizona for Abortion Access sues Legislative Council over abortion ballot description

Jul 10, 2024 The Legislative Council used the term "unborn human being" in its description of the abortion initiative.
Flashing lights on top of a police car.

Arizona election worker accused of stealing a security fob also charged with other crimes

Jul 10, 2024 Ringfield also is charged with theft after prosecutors say he stole $9,500 in vintage jewelry from mannequins at the Phoenix Art Museum on May 20.
The Colorado River, just north of the Navajo Bridge in Northern Arizona.

Arizona congressional delegation introduces $5 billion tribal water rights legislation

Jul 8, 2024 The legislation would ratify a settlement agreement that was approved by each of the tribes in May.
Walking down the road near the Bear Canyon Trail in the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, February 2018.

Public meeting will discuss new Sabino Canyon visitor center

Jul 8, 2024 The Thursday meeting will include a first look at initial plans for the redesign
Itzel waits in Nogales, Sonora, hoping to get a chance to ask for asylum in the U.S., for herself, her husband and their two young daughters. She asked that we don't show their faces due to fears for their safety after running from threats in Mexico City.

Border Patrol continues to discard bulk of migrants’ belongings

Jul 8, 2024 In the first part of a two-part series, Danyelle Khmara explains one of the challenges migrants who cross the border into Arizona are facing — as more people are quickly removed from the country under Biden’s recent limit on asylum.
NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument on June 19, 2024, recorded scorching roads and sidewalks across Phoenix where contact with skin could cause serious burns in minutes to seconds, as indicated in the legend.

NASA map shows temperatures up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets, sidewalks

Jul 6, 2024 Surface temperatures that hot can cause severe contact burns within minutes or seconds.
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a humpback chub in the Colorado River basin in Grand Canyon National Park in Ariz. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says on Wednesday, it has wrapped up its environmental review of a plan to help the humpback chub and other protected fish in northern Arizona.

US agency to fight invasive bass threatening humpback chub, other protected fish in Grand Canyon

Jul 4, 2024 It is the latest move in a battle to keep non-native smallmouth bass and green sunfish at bay in an area of the Colorado River below the Glen Canyon Dam.
Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Arizona.

Grijalva says Biden should get out of Presidential race

Jul 4, 2024 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

Jul 4, 2024 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.

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

Jul 3, 2024 Also on Arizona Spotlight: How art can help with in-hospital healing; Luis Alberto Urrea on how his literature career began; and "Stories That Soar!" considers the meaning of love.
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

Jul 3, 2024 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

Jul 2, 2024 Local leaders highlight need for resources and humane solutions.
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development administrator Andy Berke and Patrick Ledger, Arizona Generation and Transmission Cooperatives’ CEO, cut the ribbon to a new battery energy storage system in Sahuarita, AZ on Tuesday, July 2, 2024.

$55.2 million to boost clean energy in rural Arizona with new battery systems

Jul 2, 2024 Federal funding will support three new battery energy storage facilities, lower energy bills, create jobs, and promote sustainability in cities like Sahuarita.
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

Jun 30, 2024 The Boulder View Fire was 19% contained Sunday after charring nearly 6 square miles.
AZPM will be providing complete coverage of the 2024 Arizona Election.

Key dates and essential information for Arizona’s Primary Election

Jun 29, 2024 Here is a list of your most frequently asked questions with answers.
The Arizona state Capitol on March 3, 2020.

The Buzz: The coming state budget has its critics

Jun 28, 2024 Worries about shorted funding, misallocated funds and existing problems cause concern for some.

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