More than 1,500 applications have been submitted for 26 licenses in the Arizona Department of Health Service’s marijuana social equity ownership campaign.

The ASU Police Department has made an arrest relating to vandalism, including damage to a copy of the Quran, in an interfaith reflection space in Hayden Library in the center of the Tempe campus.

Phoenix will pay $5 million to the family of Muhammad Muhaymin who died while in police custody. Before the council voted on the settlement Wednesday, Vice Mayor Carlos Garcia said it is not justice, "Justice would have been for Muhammad to have had housing and resources."

Phoenix is preparing to open the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as part of the budget approved by the City Council earlier this year.

Tempe has approved the CROWN Act, which bans discrimination in schools and workplaces based on hairstyles.

A four-year study has come to an end and ASU's Michael White is sharing the findings. White and his research team partnered with Tempe Police Department to show how police de-escalation training translates to encounters.

On this episode of KJZZ's Word podcast hosted by Tom Maxedon, explore the human condition in the past, present and future with a historical fiction writer who runs a boutique bed-and-breakfast in the Yucatán, a Phoenix poet whose tireless homeless outreach led to a spoken word/jazz album and a Valley gaming enthusiast who wrote a sci-fi novel.

A new book of personal stories about Black residents of Arizona was released last month. The work is a continuation of a project that seeks to expand the story of “The Great Migration.” Its curator is now offering workshops to further discussions about parts of history that’s often under-studied.

The review says a supervisory agent stationed in Arizona faced getting fired for posting internal video with a migrant falling to their death. Instead, their final discipline was a 30-day suspension, according to the report from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.