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Recently, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality released a proposed roadmap outlining plans to convert treated wastewater into purified drinking water.

By By Kate Duffy, Cronkite News December 26, 2023
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After years of researching UFOs, Phoenix resident Shane Hurd thinks the research may be finally be entering what he hopes is a “golden age.”

By By Alexandria Cullen, Cronkite News December 26, 2023
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Senate President Warren Petersen is suing Gov. Katie Hobbs over what he says is her end-run around state laws giving the Senate the power to confirm -- or reject -- her picks to head state agencies.

December 23, 2023
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Kari Lake is now going to have to prove the charges she leveled against Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer are true if she wants to avoid being found guilty of defaming him.

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Two officials from a rural Arizona county pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges for delaying the certification of their county's 2022 midterm election results.

December 23, 2023
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A father in Arizona who left four children and a young relative at home so he could buy Christmas gifts and groceries returned to find the charred remains of the family's home after a fire broke out, killing all five children inside, authorities said.

December 20, 2023
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An estimated 150,000 Latino youth in Arizona will become eligible to vote in the 2024 election, when Hispanics will account for almost one in five voters in the state, according to analysts’ projections.

By By Renee Romo, Cronkite News December 18, 2023
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A veteran state lawmaker says he wants more oversight of the Department of Child Safety, saying the agency is taking far too many children from their homes and then losing track of some of them.

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A state legislator who is a lawyer has been placed on probation for 18 months for his role in three lawsuits challenging the results of the 2020 election and in filing suit against a Democratic state lawmaker for urging the FBI to investigate the activities of Republican lawmakers in and around the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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The Arizona Department of Health Services (AZDHS) released a report that shows an 11% increase in infant mortality rates from 2021 to 2022. The rate of infant mortality in Arizona in 2022 was six for every 1,000 births. Previously it was at 5.47.

By By Caleb Scott, Cronkite News December 16, 2023
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Arizona's governor on Friday ordered the state's National Guard to the border with Mexico to help federal officials manage an influx of migrants.

By By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press December 16, 2023
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The University of Arizona has become the latest school dealing with a sizeable budget problem.

December 16, 2023
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A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn't ruled out if voters return him to the White House next year.

By By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press December 12, 2023
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Gov. Katie Hobbs said she's willing to have members of the Arizona National Guard on the border to help deal with migrants -- and even reopen the Lukeville port of entry -- but not on her dime.

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Scottsdale police did nothing wrong in arresting the owner of a restaurant for violating one of Gov. Doug Ducey's executive orders on COVID, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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A Pearl Harbor Day commemoration at the State Capitol complex on Saturday, Dec. 9, marked the 10th anniversary of the addition of the gun barrels from the USS Arizona and USS Missouri to the memorials in Wesley Bolin Plaza.

December 10, 2023
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A U.S. citizen has been charged in Arizona over online comments that allegedly incited what police describe as a "religiously motivated terrorist attack" in Australia a year ago in which six people died, officials said Wednesday.

By By ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press December 6, 2023
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Gov. Katie Hobbs has found at least one issue in which she disagrees with the last Democrat who was governor of Arizona.

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The state grand jury has indicted two of the three Cochise County supervisors on charges of conspiracy relating to the 2022 general election.

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A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona's McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun.

By By ANITA SNOW and THOMAS MACHOWICZ, Associated Press November 28, 2023
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The state's top Republican lawmakers can't avoid having to answer questions about their backing of legislation making it more difficult to register to vote.

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Attorney General Kris Mayes filed suit Monday against manufacturers and distributors of insulin accusing them of conspiring to raise prices and keep them high.

November 28, 2023
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A White Mountain Apache Police officer has been arrested in connection to a fatal hit-and-run accident in Navajo County, authorities said Monday.

By The Associated Press November 28, 2023
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It won't make Arizona into Colorado or Oregon. And whatever happens will take years.

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A Texas border crossing was closed to vehicles Monday, and traffic at an Arizona crossing was limited to shift more resources to illegal entries, U.S. authorities said in the latest sign of how fast-changing migration routes are challenging the government to keep up.

By The Associated Press November 27, 2023

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