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Has your rent gone up over the past year? You’re not alone.

This past weekend’s EDM festival spurred a number of complaints from neighbors.

A left-wing group is running ads attacking Arizona U.S. Senator Jeff Flake for not denouncing Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon.

Spending by Latinos in Arizona is on the rise. They are projected to spend $42.5 billion by the end of this year. That’s according to the 20th edition of the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s “DATOS: The State of Arizona’s Hispanic Market” report. It finds that Latinos spent $38.3 billion…

A ballot initiative to raise Arizona’s minimum wage has (once again) been cleared for a vote in November. The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an earlier decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the validity of signatures gathered in support of the initiative, Proposition 206, which proposes to increase wages…

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging thousands of signatures gathered in support of an initiative to increase Arizona’s minimum wage, clearing the way for it to appear on the ballot. Given that it hinged on the minutiae of Arizona law concerning ballot initiatives, it was…

Social scientists have a term for young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who aren’t in school and don’t have jobs: disconnected youth. Starbucks has a plan for them. Late last week, the Seattle-based caffeinater to the masses held a press conference to unveil a free job-training program for…

Clipboards in hand, they wave down grocery shoppers and fairgoers, sweat dripping down their faces in the 120-degree Phoenix sun. “Hey, can you sign a petition?” In what appears a noble testament to the cause of the day — raising the minimum wage, legalizing marijuana — they keep at it…

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge Thursday threw out a substantial number of signatures gathered in support of a voter initiative to raise Arizona’s minimum wage to $12 an hour.  Judge Joshua Rogers struck many of the signatures by default because the people who gathered them, some of whom were…

As Arizona’s housing market continues its recovery, homebuilders are struggling to find enough skilled workers to keep up with the demand for new houses — and that’s leading to costly delays. Arizona employed 244,300 construction workers at the peak of the housing boom in 2006, according to the Bureau of Labor…

Arizona voters will likely get to decide this fall whether to raise the state’s minimum wage and mandate employers to provide paid sick time. The Arizona Healthy Working Families campaign submitted 271,883 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office on July 7. If at least 150,642 of the signatures…

Cady Gokey understands the concerns some people have about bottled-water plants in drought-stricken Phoenix. But she also knows what people want: a cool drink of bottled water. As president of Sedona Bottling Company, the 28-year-old oversees a small water factory in a nondescript West Phoenix industrial park. The 20-year-old company…

Voters this year may be asked not only to decide whether Arizona should raise the minimum wage, but also by how much. Two groups on opposite sides of the issue are pushing November ballot measures to address the issue: the workers’-rights organization Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families; and…

Of the 150 largest cities in the nation, the one with the highest median income for Hispanics is…Gilbert, Arizona! That’s according to a recent analysis by WalletHub. The personal-finance website found that when adjusted for cost of living, median income for Hispanics in Gilbert is four times higher than the figure for Hispanics…

The people of Scottsdale are the hardest working in Arizona and the sixth-hardest working in the United States, according to a new report.  To calculate the ranking, the data crunchers at Wallethub analyzed the average number of hours worked per week, the labor force participation rate, and average leisure time per…

With two weeks until payday, Shefik Tallmadge, then 29, used his last $5 in his pocket to purchase a lottery ticket at a Circle K in Yuma. When he checked his ticket the following day, he learned he’d won Arizona’s largest jackpot in the Pick lottery at the time —…

A count of the homeless people living in Maricopa County will take place later this month in an effort to learn who’s experiencing homelessness and the resources they need. The Maricopa Association of Governments coordinates the Point-in-Time homeless count in Maricopa County each year to secure homeless-assistance funding from the…

Young, environmentally conscious Phoenix-area residents are facing obstacles in attempting to downsize into incredibly small homes. Chris and Ashley Clemmons are among the Arizona pioneers in the tiny-home movement, but after spending the past year building their custom, 167-square-foot dwelling in a warehouse on her parents’ property in Scottsdale, they…

Arizona is now one of 24 states officially suing the Environmental Protection Agency over President Obama’s flagship carbon-emissions-reduction initiative, the Clean Power Plan. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who has been talking about suing the EPA for months, announced that his office and the Arizona Corporaton Commission jointly signed onto…

U.S., Representative Raúl Grijalva will announce a bill this afternoon designed to permanently ban uranium mining in the Grand Canyon watershed. The Tucson congressman’s measure, officially called the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument Act, calls for protecting the area by declaring the region a national monument. According to a…