The Arizona Senate passed a state budget backed by the chamber’s Republican leaders and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs in the early hours on Friday morning.
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Social Security and Medicare are perhaps the best known government-assistance programs for older adults. There’s another federal benefit specifically for residents of long-term care facilities, and it was recently at risk of losing funding.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld laws in states that ban gender affirming medical care for transgender minors. Now Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is calling on state legislators to pass a similar law in Arizona.
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Tempe has closed southbound Mill Avenue between Fifth Street and University Drive to speed up work on an infrastructure project.
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The Arizona Diamondbacks’ effort to use state and local taxes to fix up Chase Field crossed a major hurdle on Thursday after the state Senate passed a bill that would allow sales tax dollars collected at the ballpark over the next 30 years to be used to fund major repairs.
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The Trump administration is ending a specialized suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults on July 17.
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The Arizona Democratic Party will vote next month on whether to remove its new chairman from office.
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COVID-19 cases remain relatively low in Arizona, in spite of a new strain of the virus gaining dominance across the U.S.
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Earlier this year, the Tempe History Museum opened an exhibit called “Dry Surf.” It’s a wide-ranging look at the Valley’s long relationship with skateboarding.
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Just shy of breaking a heat record Thursday at 117 degrees, greater Phoenix is under an extreme heat warning on Friday. Though the National Weather Service says to expect a slight cooldown in the coming days.
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Arizona Opera has a new leader, and he didn’t have far to go to take his new job. Brian DeMaris has taught at ASU for around a decade and both collaborated with and attended Arizona Opera.
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The deadly, flesh-eating parasite has led to border closures for live cattle from Mexico over the past six months.
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To talk about budget drama at the state Capitol overnight, the ongoing fight between Maricopa County supervisors and the recorder and more, The Show sat down with Paul Bentz of HighGround and attorney Tom Ryan.
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For many Americans, high humidity will make it feel in the triple digits. The National Weather Service is urging people to prepare to protect themselves from the dangers of extreme heat.
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Trump's Truth Social comments came as a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction that would continue blocking the president's efforts to bar international students from attending Harvard.
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Since his first term, Trump has promised action on everything from tax legislation to health care within a fortnight — only for his announcements to materialize months later or not at all.
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Police say Trenton Abston, 25, came to Mayor Paul Young's home armed with a Taser. Officers allegedly found rope and duct tape in his car.
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The Trump administration is slashing jobs at Voice of America's parent agency by 85%. Journalists who have risked their freedom to report for the broadcaster wonder what happens next.