Grand Canyon Railway is celebrating Earth Day today by reducing its carbon footprint. The 90-year-old locomotive will take tourists on a trip from Williams to the canyon using vegetable oil to fire the steam engine.
Less than a week after the bombing at the Boston Marathon,
runners and spectators took to the streets of Tempe Saturday morning, for Pat’s Run
– honoring former ASU and Cardinals star Pat Tillman.
The John C. Lincoln Health Network and Scottsdale Healthcare
have announced plans to work together . Officials stress the new arrangement is
not a merger, and that each system will still be legally separate.
For the second weekend in a row, a section
of freeway in the valley will be closed. The
Arizona Department of Transportation says part of the Piestewa Freeway will be
shut down for maintenance work.
New data from the Arizona Department of Administration show the state's unemployment rate stayed flat at 7.9 percent in March, with more than 16,000 non-farm jobs gained from February.
WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Police say the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings exchanged gunfire with law enforcement for an hour while holed up in a boat before being captured.
Scottsdale Healthcare and John C. Lincoln Health Network
announced Thursday an affiliation deal is in the works that keeps the two
systems separate but allows them to share some resources and increase their
market share.
Arizona’s two U.S. Senators joined with six of their colleagues Thursday to make a pitch for their comprehensive immigration reform bill. The new federal plan would not outlaw state immigration measures.
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake says he's taking a 'wait and see' approach to the threat from Gabrielle Giffords' husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, to challenge him in the next election.
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