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After decades of dependency on coal for jobs, the Navajo Nation is turning to renewables.

Navajo Nation wants to provide power To LA

Feb 19, 2020 The deal is the latest attempt to make up for the lack of coal revenue and develop renewable energy projects.
Motorists wait to cross at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales, Sonora, in February 2019.

Vehicle crossings at Arizona-Mexico ports fall for second year

Feb 19, 2020 While car crossings were down significantly, pedestrian crossings dropped much more modestly.
Janine Petty, deputy state elections director, performs logic and accuracy tests on Pima County's vote tabulation machines on Feb. 18, ahead of the 2020 presidential preference election.

Pima County election equipment gets OK from state

Feb 18, 2020 The state is testing ballot-counting machines and software in every county ahead of the presidential preference election.
Construction underway on a section of border wall in Organ Pipe National Monument, Sept. 18, 2019.

Homeland Security waives contracting laws for border wall

Feb 18, 2020 The move is expected to speed construction and bring the president closer to his pledge of 450 miles by year's end.
Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix.

Arizona House panel OKs ban on new airport ride-hailing fees

Feb 18, 2020 The 4-3 vote fell along party lines, with majority Republicans in support.
An A-10 assigned to the 355th Fighter Wing commander at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, June 29, 2018.

Arizona lawmakers to fight military plan to retire some A-10 jets

Feb 18, 2020 Sen. McSally and Rep. Kirkpatrick both vowed to fight the move to retire dozens of A-10s, a mainstay at Tucson's Davis-Monthan.
Arizona got middling scores in a recent report for its care of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but the state was criticized – like every state in the report – for low pay for those workers that has created a “workforce in crisis.”

Report: Low pay makes disability caregivers a ‘workforce in crisis’

Feb 18, 2020 The report says providers' "hands are tied" in terms of raising pay in Arizona due to state Medicaid funding rules.
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard during a press conference in Mexico's National Palace.

Mexico says fewer migrants are reaching the US border

Feb 18, 2020 The country's administration says its efforts to the reduce the flow of migrants are proving effective.
Campaign signs for Democratic presidential hopefuls Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar compete for attention outside a January debate at Drake University in Iowa. Democrats will bring what’s left of their road show after Super Tuesday to a March 15 debate in Phoenix.

Democrats bring presidential debate to Phoenix, days before primary

Feb 17, 2020 Experts say Arizona is an example of political transformation from what one called a “ruby red” state to a purple one.
A true color image of moon of Jupiter Io.

NASA considering UA-backed trip to moon of Jupiter

Feb 17, 2020 Exploration of the volcanic moon Io is among four choices for the future mission.
More than 1,700 workers from a number of unions have been on strike against Asarco copper mining and refining operations in Arizona and Texas for four months now.

Immovable objects: Asarco, striking workers at odds after four months

Feb 17, 2020 The strike, which started in October, includes more than 1,700 workers at five Asarco facilities in Texas and Southern Arizona
Kids at school.

Groups kicking off signature effort for wealth tax to fund Arizona schools

Feb 17, 2020 The Invest in Education Act is backed by Arizona's largest teachers union and other groups.
From Nogales, Arizona, a view of the city and its border wall with Nogales, Sonora.

U.S. Consul General, new migrant center, new border wall

Feb 14, 2020 Plus, how immigration factors into the Republican and Democratic parties' platforms in 2020.
The dining hall in Kino Border Initiative's new Migrant Outreach Center in Nogales, Sonora. Arizona 360 host Lorraine Rivera toured the facility with Rev. Sean Carroll.

Touring a new center for migrants and deportees in at the border

Feb 14, 2020 The facility allows Kino Border Services to drastically expand its services in Nogales, Sonora.
Consul General Virginia Staab for the U.S. Consulate in Nogales, Sonora.

US consul general discusses Americans’ safety in Sonora

Feb 14, 2020 Lorraine Rivera's exclusive interview with U.S. Consul General Virginia Staab.
A view of the White House at night.

Federal budget proposes cuts to scholarships for Indigenous students

Feb 14, 2020 Trump administration has again proposed cutting scholarship funds within the Bureau of Indian Education.

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