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A federal court jury has awarded a former state senate staffer $1 million after concluding she was the victim of racial and sex discrimination.

Coconino County Sheriff’s personnel had to rescue a woman from a cave Saturday.

Arizonans this year are dealing with fewer wildfires than last year, but the fires are significantly larger, according to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management.

PHOENIX – After an internal audit and investigation, Arizona Department of Public Safety detectives arrested Pedro Javier Aguila Muniz on felony charges of forgery, fraud and theft.

A Burned Area Emergency Response team is assessing the condition of watersheds burned in the Woodbury Fire.

Late Wednesday, state utility officials rejected a last-ditch plea by an Arizona Public Service customers to undo the rate hike they approved for the state’s largest electric company in 2017.

Every summer, a coalition of organizations known as the Heat Relief Network provides hydration stations, refuge locations and water donation sites across metro Phoenix

Now 90% contained, the 123,875-acre Woodbury Fire should be fully contained by midnight July 15

Don’t look for Gov. Doug Ducey to trash all his Nike wear in the wake of his blistering criticism of the company.

A Congressman recently visited with constituents in Camp Verde.

A Snowflake woman has announced she will run in 2020 for re-election as a state lawmaker.

A Chino Valley man died over the weekend in what was described to police as a target shooting accident.

PHOENIX -- Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday blocked a $1 million economic development grant to Nike to construct a new plant in Arizona, accusing the company of bowing to “the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism.’’

Lea Marquez Peterson told Capitol Media Services Monday that the “accountability and answers’’ about what caused or contributed to the death of Stephanie Pullman of Sun City West last year have to come from APS.

TONTO NATIONAL FOREST – As of 6 a.m. Tuesday, firefighters have contained 80% of the Woodbury Fire.

PHOENIX -- Sonora Gov. Claudia Pavlovich warned Friday that the talk about tariffs and border closures coming from Washington is endangering the economy of both her state and Arizona.

PHOENIX -- The state’s top health official says a new state law on marijuana testing may help fill in the gaps of protecting patients left by her agency’s inability to make spot checks on kitchens preparing edible forms of the drug.

The Prescott National Forest will lift the closure order on the bald eagle nesting area along the Verde River, south of Camp Verde July 1.

Martha McSally can keep John McCain’s Senate seat until at least the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled.

Investigations have intensified across the nation over the past year, sparked by the 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report that led to the conviction of more than 300 Roman Catholic priests in that state alone.

More than 200,000 medical marijuana users are at risk, says a new state auditor's report.

Though the Woodbury Fire has grown to 123,263 acres, firefighters have achieved 53% containment as of 7:45 a.m. Thursday.

As of 8 p.m. Monday, firefighters have contained 48% of the Woodbury Fire, a fire that has grown to 112,899 acres.

Saying time is running out, the former chairman of the Arizona Libertarian Party wants the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to order an election -- and soon -- to decide who fills out the the term of John McCain.

Brutinel is a former presiding judge of the Yavapai County Superior Court.