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Phoenix faces an uncertain financial future. The pandemic-related dollars have slowed and, starting in 2025, cities will no longer be able to collect sales tax on residential rent. As city departments evaluate their budgets, there’s concern about how security at parks could be affected.
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Dec. 15, 2023
About 2.2 million Arizonans are expected to be traveling for the holidays, according to AAA Arizona. It will be one of the busiest holiday periods the organization has tracked in more than two decades.
Dec. 15, 2023
Accessing veterinary care in rural parts of Arizona can be difficult. It’s even more challenging in some tribal communities like the Navajo Nation. KJZZ talked to one vet who is bringing care to these places.
Dec. 15, 2023
The Biden administration announced Thursday that the prices for dozens of drugs in the Medicare program rose faster than the rate of inflation. That’s in violation of a new federal law. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said at a press conference in Phoenix those manufacturers will be penalized.
Dec. 15, 2023
Waymo One is rolling out curbside pickup and dropoff to select riders at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix during overnight hours.
Dec. 14, 2023
The Show spoke with Sharon Megdal, director of the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona, and Nancy Caywood, a farmer with Caywood Farms in Casa Grande, about water use by agriculture.
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Dec. 14, 2023
The Phoenix City Council has council approved an ordinance creating a vacant property registry. Owners of vacant lots over 10,000 square feet — along with some vacant commercial and residential properties — must register online.
Dec. 13, 2023
Arizona’s Republican lawmakers want to lower in-state gas prices by asking the EPA to allow the gas stations to sell a wider variety of fuel blends.
Dec. 13, 2023
The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources took up a pair of mining bills this week. One of them has called for changes to the mining law of 1872.
Dec. 13, 2023
The city of Sedona is renewing a pilot program that incentivizes homeowners to rent to long-term, locally employed tenants rather than short-term rent platforms like Airbnb.
Dec. 13, 2023
DIRECTV and TEGNA, which runs Channel 12, have not been able to come to an agreement on retransmission contracts that are up for renewal every few years. Channel 3 and YouTube TV are in a similar dispute.
Dec. 11, 2023
An Arizona lawmaker wants the state to crack down on the use of bots to buy up popular concert tickets and resell them to the public at sky-high prices.
Dec. 11, 2023
Swapna Reddy, a clinical associate professor in Arizona State University's College of Health Solutions, said the U.S. is an outlier in terms of how much money we spend on insulin.
Dec. 11, 2023
The annual dental clinic sponsored by Arizona Dental Association Cares Foundation (AzDA Cares) at the State Fairgrounds had reached capacity by noon Friday. Organizers said many people under the federal poverty level put off dental care due to cost.
Dec. 8, 2023
Medicare is meant to keep healthcare affordable for seniors. But new evidence suggests Part D participants are overpaying for drugs because private insurers are artificially inflating costs.
Dec. 8, 2023
The holiday shopping season is underway, but buyers beware. Thousands of cloned gift cards have been seized in Arizona.
Dec. 8, 2023
The sense of urgency behind a bill to fund the Ukraine war effort is reverberating all the way here to Arizona, where three members of the Ukrainian Parliament visited this month.
Dec. 7, 2023
Imagine if your house, or land you owned, was put up for sale and then sold — without you ever being aware of any of it. That’s been happening in Arizona and elsewhere, where criminals steal identities and falsify documents.
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Dec. 7, 2023
The Show spoke with Daisy Zavala Magaña with the Nogales International about the Lukeville Port of Entry closure.
Dec. 7, 2023
The GOSAFE Act, co-sponsored by Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, would establish a list of prohibited firearms and limit the capacity of detachable magazines to 10 rounds, as well as prohibit the manufacture and assembly of "ghost guns."
Dec. 6, 2023
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