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Dating back to the earliest days of western expansion in the U.S. is a collection of checkerboard patterns that divide public lands from private lands.
April 27, 2022
In a recent piece for Grid, investigative reporter Steve Reilly looked into how many candidates for office across the nation are affiliated with QAnon. And he found that Arizona is at the top of the list.
April 27, 2022
The Biden administration plans to end Title 42 in about a month. A federal judge, though, has said he’d grant a motion to stop the administration’s action to end it on May 23.
April 27, 2022
Clarence Dixon is set to be executed by the Arizona Department of Corrections next month. If it goes forward, it will be the first time the state has put someone to death since the botched execution of Joseph Wood in 2014.
April 27, 2022
Plans for the former Metrocenter Mall in Phoenix have grown since KJZZ first reported the deal last December. Here's the latest vision for the landmark property off Interstate 17 between Dunlap and Peoria avenues.
<br><small><b>→ <a href="https://kjzz.org/content/1775436/phoenix-parking-deal-metrocenter-developer-could-cost-68-million" target="_blank">Phoenix parking deal with Metrocenter developer could cost $68M</a></small></b>
April 27, 2022
Phoenix is famous for a lot of things — most of them not so great. Think heat, urban sprawl, harsh politics and a harsher desert. But there’s one thing we’re known for that’s good — really good: Mexican food.
April 26, 2022
Conventional wisdom says Democrats around the country are going to have a tough run of it in 2022’s election cycle. And former Democratic state lawmaker Chad Campbell says that will be no different here in Arizona.
April 26, 2022
Legislation known as Right to Try allows patients and their families to pursue potentially life-saving treatment that hasn't received the FDA's approval. Now, Arizona is getting its own version of that law.
April 26, 2022
Arizona is already struggling with having enough families to foster and adopt children, and some advocates are concerned that a new law signed by Gov. Doug Ducey earlier this month is going to exacerbate the challenges.
April 26, 2022
Money that was donated to help build a southern Arizona border wall instead went toward luxury purchases for the men who organized the effort.
April 26, 2022
