The Latest Breaking News from Arizona

Cities in the Southwestern US have the country’s worst air quality. Arizona’s Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale metro area had an unhealthy air quality rating 64.9% of all days in the year, and good air quality 3% of the time.

The Arizona House of Representatives has expelled a Republican lawmaker who organized a presentation by someone who made unsubstantiated accusations that a wide range of public officials took bribes from a Mexican drug cartel

Imagine that a giant mining company announces plans to dig down deep beneath the Vatican to extract precious minerals, collapsing St. Peter’s Basilica into a cavernous pit. While this unlikely scenario would be met with near-universal outrage, it’s effectively what’s happening in southeastern Arizona, to almost no national scrutiny.

Depending on the plan, either California would be the most affected, or Arizona and Nevada would be parched

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under a state law

Tribal leaders in Arizona say they hope to persuade the Biden administration to create protections for areas adjacent to the Grand Canyon, which they consider sacred

LOS ANGELES — The federal government on Tuesday laid out two options for preventing the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs from falling to critically low levels, saying it could either impose cuts across the Southwest by following the water-rights priority system or by using an across-the-board percentage.

Detective Ray Hermosillo with the Rexburg Police Department testified about a November 2019 search of Lori Vallow’s apartment and the discovery of her children’s bodies in June 2020

The Biden administration has evaluated how seven Western states that are reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River could dramatically cut their water use in the basin