Health

If you’re after a COVID-19 booster this year, it might be hard to obtain. Here’s what you should know.

A GOP budget proposal cuts Medicaid, which serves 2 million Arizonans, by $880 billion. These groups hope to stop it.

Arizona hasn’t had a measles case – yet. But with a low vaccination rate and funding cutbacks, an outbreak is inevitable.

Heat killed a woman after APS cut her power last May. State utility regulator Nick Myers told her son, “I’m more blaming you.”

Hostages in a long political fight, parents of disabled kids can finally breathe. “I totally broke down,” said one advocate.

Republicans and Gov. Katie Hobbs ended a standoff over the program, which helps parents care for their disabled children.

“It’s setting back public health 20-30 years,” said one health expert. Welcome back, measles?

Gov. Katie Hobbs is at war with Republicans over how much to fund the program, which is about to run out of money.

A state program that pays parents to care for their disabled children is out of money. Republicans are holding it hostage.

Arizona hasn’t had a measles outbreak yet, but that doesn’t mean certain areas of the Valley aren’t vulnerable to one.

In Arizona, Indigenous people kill themselves at far higher rates than any other racial group. Trump might make it worse.

After gearing up to combat the heat, Phoenix officials took credit for a drop in heat deaths – a small one, from 645 to 602.

We may not have earth-rattling natural disasters, but we make up for that with a brutal, never-ending summer.

Passing Proposition 139 killed Arizona’s 15-week ban, but abortion providers still face a tangled web of other restrictions.

The decision comes as Donald Trump has sought to limit the rights of transgender people.

A state-back review pointed out that having guns around kids leads to gun deaths. Two state lawmakers saw that as an attack.

Wastewater testing found the virus in Phoenix, Surprise and Tempe. Here’s a guide to what that means.

The smell from Growers Market is sometimes “so bad you can’t even breathe,” one person said. The composter will now leave.

Phoenix says its heat mitigation efforts worked this summer. Still, more than 400 people died from heat causes so far in 2024.

Arizona bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. A nonpartisan think tank says that comes with a hefty price tag.

The Valley may fall short of last year’s grim record of 645 heat deaths, but the numbers this summer aren’t much more promising.

The Food and Drug Administration approved new boosters last week, just as cases of the illness are spiking in Arizona.