Arizona Business News
More than 30 years after a Phoenix activist died, she’ll be honored with a street in her name.
March 11, 2024
A recent report from a national nursing home resident advocacy group found that a majority of residents surveyed say their facility lacked adequate staff to meet their needs.
March 11, 2024
The Phoenix Police Department has launched a new marketing campaign in an effort to fill hundreds of positions. And that effort is are already paying off — For the first time since 2019, the Phoenix Police Department added more officers than it lost last year.
March 11, 2024
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined 40 other attorneys general in a coalition that calls on tech giant Meta to overhaul its security practices for Facebook and Instagram to prevent user accounts from being taken over by scammers.
March 9, 2024
SB 1613, approved by the Senate this week on a 16-14 party-line vote, extends current laws allowing citizen's arrests in felony theft cases, where the value is more than $2,000.
March 8, 2024
Gov. Katie Hobbs' office on Thursday announced the Saudi-owned company Fondomonte is "officially no longer pumping Arizona groundwater in Butler Valley," in the western side of the state.
March 8, 2024
Contributing to the hike are higher oil prices, spring driving demand, and states making the switch to more expensive summer-blend fuel.
March 8, 2024
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Ramin Toloui visited Arizona State University's Tempe campus Thursday to speak with representatives from semiconductor manufacturers about using funding from the 2022 CHIPS Act.
March 8, 2024
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing the owner of a now-closed quinceanera dress store in Phoenix under the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act. Oh La La by Posh is accused of making customers pay deposits with no intention of delivering dresses.
March 8, 2024
The bill would require banks that want to do business with the state to certify they don’t discriminate against firearm entities. If this measure passes the Legislature, it would go to voters’ ballots in November.
March 7, 2024
Members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team earlier this week voted to unionize. It’s the first time college student-athletes have taken this step. Experts say all of this has the potential to drastically change the landscape of college sports.
March 7, 2024
Arizona’s universities have put a lot of money into opening and expanding medical schools in our state as we face an ongoing physician shortage. But Brittney Kaufmann says it’s all for naught unless we get more government funding for residencies that train new physicians in real hospital and health care settings.
March 7, 2024
Officials in Miami Beach, Florida, are looking to make some changes to spring break — including parking restrictions, curfews, bag searches and DUI checkpoints. Jason Castellucci says Lake Havasu City, a popular Arizona spring break destination, is not looking to go in the same direction.
March 7, 2024
A new analysis of university enrollment finds public research universities in 47 states — including Arizona — have increased the percentage of out-of-state undergrads they accept between 2002 and 2022.
March 7, 2024
PFAS are a group of widely-used, human-made chemicals linked to health issues like cancer and thyroid disease. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to release a long-awaited set of drinking water standards for the chemicals this year. But contamination has already been found in thousands of communities around the country like Tucson.
March 7, 2024
Salt River Project’s board this week approved a more ambitious set of sustainability goals. The utility now says it is aiming for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
March 6, 2024
After meeting with leadership from the University of Arizona and the Arizona Board of Regents on Wednesday, Gov. Katie Hobbs laid out steps she would like them to take as the university contends with a large budget shortfall.
March 6, 2024
Tomas Robles, said the International Rescue Committee’s Welcome Center is also facing a funding cliff — even as they have taken in thousands of migrants dropped off in metro Phoenix by the Border Patrol recently.
March 6, 2024
More than 10 million acres were taken from Native American tribes to create the more than 100 so-called land-grant universities, including the University of Arizona. Recent reporting from Grist says those funds aren't used to help Native students.
March 6, 2024
Almost 22,000 animals come through the Arizona Humane Society’s doors every year. The majority of them go through its trauma hospital. But the organization’s previous locations weren’t designed with that function in mind.
March 6, 2024
