We’ve heard a lot about the Valley’s roughly 200 cooling centers. In addition, some churches and nonprofits offer “heat-relief respite centers” where unhoused people can sleep during hours of operation.

This is at least the third time Grijalva, a Democrat in southern Arizona, has introduced the Fairness for Farm Workers Act.

The Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma claims the governor’s executive order banning the use of public funds for "conversion therapy” is illegal. Toma says it’s overreach and appears to violate parental rights.

Earlier this year the United Nations appointed Cindy McCain to be the executive director of the World Food Programme.

Advocates celebrated earlier this month when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that kept intact one of the few ways people with disabilities, older adults and their families can protect their rights when a federally-funded program like Medicaid isn't safely administered.

The wall at the U.S.-Mexico border has long been a source of controversy — for its political message, impacts on the environment and costs, among other things. But for a group of children in a small Sonoran town, it’s also become a canvas.
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Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is defending a state law that bans transgender athletes from competing on school teams that differ from the gender they were assigned at birth.

Last month, experts did a survey in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California to gather data to estimate the remaining number of endangered vaquita porpoises there. Vaquita marina are small, cute porpoises with black markings around their eyes and mouths. They are considered the world's most endangered marine mammal.

On Monday, survivors of a day care fire, families of the children who died and members of the community came together in Hermosillo to mark the 14th anniversary of the tragedy. They held vigils, Mass and a march to demand justice.