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Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd and Ann English vote to certify the November 2022 election. December 1, 2022

Cochise County certifies election

Dec 1, 2022 The vote came after a judge ordered them follow the law.
Shipping containers are put in place along the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County.

Forest Service warns about dangers of shipping container wall

Dec 1, 2022 The state is placing the barriers in the Coronado National Forest.
Tucson City Hall

Redistricting Advisory Committee approves three maps to be sent to Tucson city council

Nov 30, 2022 The new ward boundaries will be in effect for the 2023 municipal election.
The Fact Check Arizona podcast will cover the 2022 Arizona election season.

Fact Check Arizona bonus episode: How we fact check

Nov 30, 2022 The Fact Check AZ team discuss how we'd dissect a questionable campaign mailer
U.S. Supreme Court building.

Supreme Court wrestles over state challenges to federal immigration policy

Nov 30, 2022 The Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with how strictly the federal government must enforce immigration policy.
More than one-third of households in Tucson are considered housing cost burdened.

Complaint filed against housing ordinance that bans income source discrimination

Nov 29, 2022 The city has until 5 p.m. Friday to respond.

Arizona settles with Google, iHeartMedia over misleading ads

Nov 29, 2022 The Federal Trade Commission and a handful of states announced settlements.
John Farley, director of fire test operations at the Naval Research Laboratory, tests the effectiveness of aqueous film-forming foam by spraying it on a gasoline fire. The test took place at the laboratory in Chesapeake Beach, Md. Oct. 25, 2019.

UArizona Health Sciences receives grant to study PFAS mitigation in firefighters' blood

Nov 28, 2022 Arizona Board of Regents grant will further an Australian study that could minimize forever chemicals' impact on health.
After two decades of drought, parts of Lake Mead that were once underwater have been exposed as the lake falls to historically low levels.

Deadline approaching for drought financial relief

Nov 28, 2022 The federal goverment has money available to offset the cost of the drought.
Governor Doug Ducey greets Governor-elect Katie Hobbs in his office. November 23, 2022

Gov Ducey welcomes Hobbs though no Lake concession

Nov 24, 2022 Outgoing Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Wednesday his Republican administration will ensure an orderly transition to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

Sierra Vista gets grant for new homeless project

Nov 24, 2022 The $50,000 grant comes from the Arizona Department of Housing.
The Arizona Capitol Museum building at the State Capitol in Phoenix.

Republican lawmaker threatens to not vote on any bills over election result

Nov 23, 2022 The new member of the legislature is in a race with an automatic recount
File photo of a hospital hallway.

Health insurance open enrollment sees lower premiums

Nov 23, 2022 Officials are pointing towards the Inflation Reduction Act for more affordable plans.
This August 2022 photo provided by the National Park Service shows a double rainbow from the ranger station porch at Indian Garden, which is now called Havasupai Gardens, in Grand Canyon National Park. The Indian Garden name assigned to a popular Grand Canyon campground has been changed out of respect for a Native American tribe that was displaced by the national park. The Havasupai Tribe and Grand Canyon National Park announced Monday, Nov. 21, that Indian Garden will be renamed Havasupai Gardens.

Grand Canyon park changes campground name that haunted tribe

Nov 22, 2022 The Havasupai Tribe and Grand Canyon National Park announced that Indian Garden will be renamed Havasupai Gardens.
Since the year 2000, the Pima County Medical Examiner has received nearly 4,000 sets of human remains from people who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Arizona. Here, a cross marking the place where a man in his 30s died in 2009 lays a few hundred yards from one of the water stations the nonprofit Humane Borders sets out for migrants crossing the desert.

Missing Migrant Program Summit brings awareness to risk of migrant deaths

Nov 21, 2022 Officials from local, national and non-governmental agencies came together to exchange ideas.
White Mountain Apache Chairwoman Gwendena Lee-Gatewood, left, and Colorado River Indian Tribes Chairwoman Amelia Flores testify in a March hearing where they urged members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to back water legislation critical to their tribes. The committee gave preliminary approval to the bills Wednesday.

After long fight, tribal water bills get primary OK; still far from final

Nov 19, 2022 Tribal leaders welcomed the votes, which they called the culmination of hard-fought struggles by their tribes.

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