Jacqueline Edwards
Jacqueline Edwards has joined the city of Phoenix as its new Human Services Department director.
She has spent the last 14 years with Maricopa County, serving in various positions within the …
A federal judge has sentenced a California scuba dive boat captain to four years in custody and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel …
2024 ELECTION
With three seats set to open on the Deer Valley Unified School District’s governing board this November, nine potential candidates have filed statements of interest to run.
Valley & State
Authorities say a man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding two others in a domestic violence incident on the Navajo Nation earlier this week has been arrested. Navajo Police say …
Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion. In 2024, the question …
VALLEY BUSINESS
A Trader Joe’s market is going to be built in a shopping center on the northeast corner of Ocotillo Road and Arizona Avenue in South Chandler.
Not many details, including an opening date, …
MURDER CHARGE
A 19-year-old man was arrested Wednesday and booked on a first-degree murder charge in the February death of a man in the West Valley, Phoenix police said.
Richard Salazar also faces an armed …
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is following through on promises to undo a long-dormant law that bans all abortions except those done to save a patient’s life. A signing ceremony was scheduled …
Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban will soon be gone from the law books, but not from the campaign trail. Even after the state Legislature voted Wednesday to repeal a law banning nearly all abortions, …
Abortion is still consuming U.S. state legislatures, courts and political campaigns two years after the draft of a Supreme Court decision that would upend the status quo was leaked. On Wednesday, a …
Legal
PHOENIX — Arizona’s 2022 election for attorney general that saw Republican Abraham Hamadeh lose by just 280 votes should be redone because Maricopa County failed to test their ballot …
EDUCATION / TEEN SAFETY
An educator who was named in a lawsuit against her school district has been reassigned after being placed on leave.
Jamie Lander was placed on leave in mid-February, shortly after a lawsuit was …
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