LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prospective homebuyers are facing higher costs to finance a home with the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate moving above 7% this week to its highest level in nearly five …
DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of workers at a big Mercedes-Benz factory near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote next month on whether they want to be represented by the United Auto Workers union.
The …
The World Health Organization has approved a version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile and left poorer countries …
Valley & State
education
Peoria Unified School District welcomed Dr. K.C. Somers as a full-time member of the Peoria Unified family on April 1.
STRATEGIC PLAN
State transportation officials are looking for the public’s help in updating Arizona’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan and creating the state’s first Active Transportation Safety …
A southern Arizona jury will hear closing argumentsin the case against a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border. George Alan Kelly was charged with …
Government
PHOENIX — A bill that would require schools to have separate showers for transgender students so that other students aren’t exposed to them is on the way to Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk …
ON TOUR
Fuerza Regida has announced a new Phoenix date for its upcoming summer tour.
PHOENIX — State senators will vote whether to repeal a law dating back to 1864 that outlaws abortion except to save the life of the mother. And there appear to be the votes.
Sen. Anna …
Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state’s highest court concluded the law can be enforced …
VETERANS
Tucked into a gathering room in a corner of Terminal 4 at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport are a bunch of men and women wearing gold shirts.
Health care
PHOENIX – Andrew Archer has been recovering from COVID-19 for almost four years.
“My life is so different (now), and I’m slowly starting to accept that,” Archer said. …
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