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Environmental groups are watching closely to see how Arizona’s next governor, Katie Hobbs, will handle a makeshift wall of shipping containers the state is putting up along the border.
Nov. 23, 2022
The survey's findings come as Congress mulls a bill to provide permanent protection for DACA recipients.
Nov. 21, 2022
A suspect has been arrested for allegedly shooting at several cars on a west Phoenix freeway that resulted in the death of one driver.
Nov. 21, 2022
Earlier this month, the Mesa Police Department made one of the largest fentanyl pill drug busts in the department’s history. The discovery of these pills occurred as officials from the Street Crime Units seized several illegal drugs from two unrelated drug bust cases.
Nov. 19, 2022
Police say the killer or killers who stabbed four University of Idaho students to death remains at large, and the violence has prompted many students to leave town.
Nov. 16, 2022
A federal judge in Washington D.C. has ruled to vacate Title 42 — the pandemic-era protocol that allows U.S. border officers to quickly turn away migrants and asylum seekers and send them back across the border.
Nov. 15, 2022
The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection has resigned from his job leading the nation’s largest law enforcement agency as agents encounter record numbers of migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico.
Nov. 14, 2022
The Phoenix City Prosecutor’s Office boasts a 95% success rate for its domestic violence diversion program, but some leaders want to see more numbers.
Nov. 10, 2022
The Phoenix Police Department is trying to increase the number of officers and decrease response times. Depending on the precinct, the average response time for priority one calls — like a violent crime in progress or a just-stolen car — is six to eight minutes.
Nov. 10, 2022
A new report assesses the causes, scope and impacts of growing wildlife trafficking in Mexico, where species like jaguars, sloths, monkeys and lizards are being openly traded — both in public markets and on social media.
Nov. 10, 2022
A new report from the Human Trafficking Institute unveils new data about how federal courts handle trafficking cases nationwide and in Arizona.
Nov. 9, 2022
Sonoran officials say they are investigating a case of possible fraud in Rocky Point after an Arizona state representative highlighted the issue in a press conference this week.
Nov. 9, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to void an Arizona law that allows certain criminal trials to be conducted with juries of just eight people. The vast majority of states in the U.S. require 12 people.
Nov. 8, 2022
The federal government is now implementing updated guidance from the Biden administration on how to handle applications for DACA. The new rule was meant to fortify the program, but ongoing litigation still keeps first-time applicants out.
Nov. 7, 2022
As the holiday season approaches, more online shoppers will begin to make purchases to be delivered to their homes. But items left on porches are vulnerable to being stolen. Phoenix police Sgt. Brian Bower suggests video monitoring devices to capture these porch pirates.
Nov. 5, 2022
Officials in neighboring Sonora say they have recovered the body of a prison employee who was kidnapped earlier this week.
Nov. 3, 2022
Organized retail theft is a growing problem, both here in Arizona and across the country and around the world. A recent panel hosted by Arizona State University and the Arizona Chamber Foundation looked into the issue and ways to try to combat it.
Nov. 2, 2022
As Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's shipping container wall continues to advance along a stretch of border on Coronado National Forest land in Cochise County, conservationists monitoring wildlife are expecting the worst.
Oct. 31, 2022
U.S. lawmakers introduced the Afghan Adjustment Act to provide a pathway to permanent status for some 80,000 Afghans evacuated from their country last fall.
Oct. 31, 2022
Detectives with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office serving a search warrant this week on a West Valley business found a large underground bunker that contained guns and drugs, authorities said Friday.
Oct. 28, 2022
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