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An interview with Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly.

Former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly dies at age 75

Mar 22, 2023 He died Wednesday morning in New Mexico.

Protests against the Resolution Copper mine near Oak Flat have been going for years, as shown in this 2015 file photo from a rally at the Capitol.

Apaches tell court copper mine would harm sacred sites

Mar 21, 2023 U.S. federal government plans for a land swap that will allow Resolution Copper to build the mine will destroy the land in eastern Arizona known as Oak Flat.

Apache Elementary School in Cochise County. March 2023

One room schoolhouse gets law enforcment help

Mar 21, 2023 Apache Elementary gets help with migrants crossing the Cochise County campus.

A view of the Colorado River near the Silver Bridge on the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park. From November 2022.

Supreme Court seems split in Navajo Nation water rights case

Mar 20, 2023 The justices weighed a dispute involving the federal government and the Navajo Nation’s quest for water from the drought-stricken Colorado River.

Pima County Library bookshelves.

Cochise County gets more money for reading

Mar 20, 2023 The county wants to increase the number of students able to read at a third-grade level

Fourth year medical students celebrate their residency programs on Friday, March 17.

Future doctors meet their match

Mar 19, 2023 UA medical students learn where they will go for their next training.

Supporters of bills to battle dementia spoke of the need for a statewide effort to battle dementia at a news conference at the state Capitol.

Dementia’s dangerous rise leads legislators to ask up to $500,000 for Alzheimer’s

Mar 19, 2023 State legislators are pushing a bill to build a state dementia plan.

Annual count shows Mexican wolf population reaches record numbers

Mar 18, 2023 Recovery of wolves in the wild accelerated at an astonishing rate in 2022.

A flyer for ranked choice voting from the group Voter Choice Massachusetts.

Arizona Republican legislators announce formal opposition to ranked choice voting

Mar 18, 2023 The Arizona Freedom Caucus wants to preemptively prohibit any use of ranked choice voting to decide city, state, county or federal elections.

Pusch Ridge after a March snowstorm.

The Buzz: How snowmelt affects Arizona's water supply

Mar 17, 2023 How much will a wet winter improve drought conditions around the state?

Phillip Yazzie waits for a water drum in the back of his pickup truck to be filled in Teesto, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation, on Feb. 11, 2021.

Feds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water

Mar 17, 2023 The tribe doesn't have enough water and says that the federal government is at fault.

U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva sits for an interview at Arizona Public Media in November 2019.

Grijalva asks US Attorney General to look into Cochise County elections move

Mar 16, 2023 Grijalva wants a federal investigation into the decision to hand off elections work to the County Recorder.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, center, is flanked by Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma, R-Glendale, left, and Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, right, at Hobbs' state of the state address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 9, 2023.

Arizona governor blasted for plans to defy execution order

Mar 15, 2023 Hobbs has said executions will not be carried out until Arizonans can be confident the state isn’t violating the law.

The seal of Cochise County.

Cochise County getting more border enforcement vehicles

Mar 15, 2023 The money comes from an amended agreement with the state.

A Da Vinci Surgical Robot was purchased by Canyon Vista Medical Center to assist physicians during surgery.

Robotic surgery comes to Cochise County.

Mar 14, 2023 Canyon Vista Medical Center gets help for surgeons.

Flowers in bloom at Picacho Peak State Park, 2019.

Winter moisture expected to yield big wildflower bloom in Arizona

Mar 14, 2023 Experts say conditions lined up to produce massive floral displays in lower elevations.

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