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Conservationists demand that the state reevaluate the physical and legal availability of water taken by subdivisions from the San Pedro Riparian Conservation Area.

Tensions erupted between immigrant rights advocates and Peoria police officers on Tuesday, amid a surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity across the Valley.

“An ancient sacred site will be destroyed, replaced by a 2-mile-wide crater,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in dissent.

Fires have already burned more than 38,000 acres in Arizona in 2025, more than double the amount burned by this time last year.

After falling in 2024, marijuana sales in Arizona accelerated their slide in the first quarter of 2025, falling more than 13% over the prior year.

Some members of queer communities report feeling more vulnerable to discrimination in public, at schools, in workplaces and within health care systems.

Temperatures in Maryvale, one of Phoenix’s most underserved neighborhoods, often rise six degrees higher than other areas of the city, exacerbated by the urban heat island effect and the lack of trees and foliage compared to wealthier neighborhoods.

The U.S. House of Representatives took the initial step on Tuesday to revoke a National Park Service rule that put restrictions on motorized vehicles in sections of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

Deep cuts at the nation’s weather agency could put Arizonans at risk by hampering forecasts for haboobs, monsoon season rain storms, flash flooding and wildfires.

The Natural Resources Committee voted in support of four bills that would eliminate the need for active management areas and allow farmers to irrigate additional land within them.