More than 10 million people visited Arizona’s national parks last year, according to new figures released by the National Park Service.The Park Service says more than $773 million of spending occurred in Arizona thanks to tourism to the parks, supporting dozens of jobs. Check out which parks were the most…
UPDATE July 22: The Supreme Court has lifted the stay of execution. Read the latest at the bottom of this post.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily halted the execution of an Arizona death-row inmate as he attempts to get information about the state’s new lethal-injection method.The state plans…
The percentage of Arizona kindergartners not getting vaccinated went up yet again this year.The Arizona Department of Health Services released its annual report on how many children aren’t getting vaccinated due to a parent’s “personal belief” exemption, a rate that’s up to 4.7 percent for kindergarten children…
Another wildfire has broken out near Sedona, after a single-engine plane crashed, killing four people.According to a Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, hikers reported the downed plane and fire around 4 p.m. yesterday, although it took another two hours to actually find the plane in Fay Canyon…
Now that there’s a plan to slice up California into six states, it’s time to unveil our plan to divide Arizona into multiple states.Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the 10 states of Arizona:…
In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered.Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…
Here’s something you probably don’t hear every day: Phoenix is a great place for small-business opportunities.Good economic news seems rare around Phoenix in the aftermath of the recession, but the National Federation of Independent Business says Phoenix is one of the top cities “opening their doors to entrepreneurs.”…
Republican congressional candidate Adam Kwasman has become the latest in a long line of Arizona politicians to be the butt of Stephen Colbert’s jokes on the Colbert Report.His appearance results from his confusing of a bus full of kids from the YMCA as a bus full of migrant children getting…
Of more than 500,000 young immigrants who have been given relief from deportation by the Obama Administration, less than 4 percent live in Arizona.A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services report on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program shows only about 19,000 of the 500,000 immigrants approved for the…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, we’ve got a real cast of…
Disbarred former Maricopa County Attorney and current Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew Thomas has released a very Andrew Thomas-y campaign ad.By “Andrew Thomas-y,” we mean there’s a crossed-out Mexican flag, and Thomas claiming to stand up to the “gay lobby.”…
A college student working in a job-placement program at a Phoenix elementary school was arrested on child-porn charges.Travis Kinkaid-Mata, 27, worked in the library at Phoenix’s Longview Elementary School, near 12th Street and Indian School Road, according to court documents obtained by New Times…
Members of the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe say they refused a “bribe” from the Washington Redskins organization, which tribal members say offered a blank check to build a skate park in their community.One of the tribal members who’s trying to secure funding for the skate park gave his account of…
We’re still a month away from the primary election, but Arizona’s politicians already have managed to turn campaign season into a full-blown circus.Here are the worst missteps, mistakes, and bone-headed moves from candidates already this year:…
Someone has planted foot-long pieces of rebar fashioned into spikes in the Coconino National Forest.Forest Service officials say five of these spikes have been discovered near the Happy Jack area…
A poll shows a majority of Americans want deportation proceedings sped up for the wave of Central American children showing up at the nation’s border, including the deportation of kids who are eligible for asylum.That poll was released today by the Pew Research Center, which showed that 53 percent of…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio offered Mary Rose Wilcox “extra security” at her upcoming immigration rally, in the form of armed posse members.Seeing as Arpaio and Wilcox have been feuding about as long as the Hatfields and McCoys, Wilcox was quick to reject the offer, saying it “reeks of an…
Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star has become the latest newspaper to charge readers for access to stories on its website.The paper unveiled its “metered access” plan this week, along with a $13-a-month price-tag for online news only…
Wiretapping rates in Arizona are among the highest in the nation.The Pew Research Center ranked the states where the most wiretap authorizations were made last year, finding that Arizona’s had the fifth-highest rate in the country…
The Arizona Department of Revenue prevented about $74 million in fraudulent tax refunds from being sent out, according to agency officials.Five years ago, the agency reported stopping less than $2 million in payouts of phony tax refunds…
A year and a half after a 2-year-old girl was killed at an unlicensed Phoenix babysitting business, two people have been charged in the girl’s death.Allison Clement and Ryan Reed, the couple who ran the babysitting service, had previously been charged in Savannah Cross’ death, but those charges were dropped…
Tesla Motors has installed its eighth Supercharger battery-charging system in Arizona.These Supercharger stations can provide Tesla vehicles with a half-capacity charge in about 20 minutes, which is roughly 16 times faster than typical public charging stations for electric vehicles…
