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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaking with attendees at the 2023 Legislative Forecast Luncheon hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Buzz: Catching up with Arizona AG Kris Mayes

Jan 3, 2025 Mayes talks about what happened in 2024 and what may come in 2025.
U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, in 2017.

Ruben Gallego becomes first Latino U.S. Senator from Arizona

Jan 3, 2025 Gallego will serve on the Banking, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, and the Energy and Natural Resources committees.
Baboquivari Peak, the most sacred site for the Tohono O'odham people, can be seen from many parts of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge.

Tohono O’odham Nation gains co-stewardship over sacred lands

Jan 2, 2025 The Tohono O’odham Nation and the Bureau of Land Management agree to co-steward the Baboquivari National Wilderness.
Families stand in line to receive food at the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Sonora. The shelter receives a few hundred people each morning.

Migrant help center brace for deportations under President-elect Trump

Jan 2, 2025 President-elect Donald Trump has promised mass deportation when he takes office, but in the absence of a clear plan, organizations that serve migrants are doing what they can to prepare.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, President Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands to symbolize their agreement after signing the Middle East Peace Treaty at the White House in Washington, March 27, 1979.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

Dec 29, 2024 The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care.
What planners want The Homing Project in Tucson to look like.

The Buzz: Catching up with some of our 2024 interviewees

Dec 20, 2024 We check back in on four stories we covered this year to see how they are doing.
Signs alert drivers to road construction in progress.

ADOT pauses highway closures for the holidays

Dec 19, 2024 The change accommodates increased holiday traffic.

Arizona completes statewide water testing for PFAS ahead of updated EPA regulations deadlines

Dec 19, 2024 88% of water systems sampled meet new federal standards, 12% exceed newly established levels.
Plexiglass dividers are set up throughout a courtroom at the Pima County Superior Court as part of the building's COVID-19 mitigation protocols. April 2021.

Pima County trains to improve support for substance use cases

Dec 18, 2024 The trainings are meant to improve accessibility for people who have finished the trial phase.
Arizona Corporation Commission building in downtown Phoenix.

Corporation Commission censures Anna Tovar for ethics, open meeting law violations

Dec 18, 2024 The outgoing Tovar denies wrongdoing following the censure, claiming her actions were factual and transparent.
Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren will be replacing former Arizona State Representative Arlando Teller in District 7.

Apache County appoints Navajo Nation First Lady to be top prosecutor

Dec 17, 2024 Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren takes the position after her predecessor resigned amid investigation.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrien Fontes addresses the state's 11 Republican electors on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.

Arizona electors cast votes for Trump and Vance

Dec 17, 2024 State electors cast votes in their respective states across the county on Dec. 17.
President of Navajo Nation Dr. Buu Nygren in Window Rock, Ariz., on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024.

Navajo President cleared of harassment allegations; AG fired amid new probe

Dec 17, 2024 Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren is cleared of harassment allegations, Attorney General Ethel Branch is fired, and a new probe is launched.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump tours the southern border with Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Sierra Vista, Ariz.

Experts question feasibility of Trump's mass deportation promise

Dec 16, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly said he is quickly going to deport huge numbers of people when he takes office. But immigration and economic experts say his plan is still unclear and likely not possible.
Volunteers sort mail ballots in Pima County.

AZ voters show high bipartisan election confidence

Dec 16, 2024 71% of Democrats are confident the election was fair, despite significant losses.
A scale and gavel

Former Pima County Sheriff's Sergeant Ricardo Garcia found guilty of attempted sexual assault and sexual abuse

Dec 13, 2024 The jury found him not guilty of sexual assault.

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