Voters in Glendale will decide whether certain hospitality employees should receive a minimum wage of $20 an hour with annual cost of living increases.
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Voters in Phoenix will decide whether the mayor and council members should get pay raises. We dive into how much money is involved and how the issue landed on the Nov. 5 ballot.
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SRP’s new Eleven Mile Solar System is expected to power more than 65,000 homes and bring $80 million in tax revenue to communities inside Pinal County.
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Last week, the Bureau of Reclamation inked three historic water conservation agreements in Santa Fe with the Gila River Indian Community, which thinks it can step up to help take some strain off Lake Mead and stabilize the Colorado River Basin. Less than a week later, they’re already breaking ground on two of these projects.
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The U.S. government has awarded a multimillion dollar contract to build a long-awaited shipping port of entry near Douglas, Arizona.
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A 4-and-a-half acre property in south Phoenix will soon be the site of 25 single-family homes for lower-income families.
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Attorney General Kris Mayes filed an amended complaint in the state’s ongoing lawsuit against Heritage Village Assisted Living, adding racketeering claims. She’s also asking the court to take over two other assisted living facilities controlled by the owners of Heritage Village.
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The Arizona Auditor General says the state Department of Housing wired $2 million to fraudsters because state officials did not have a policy to prevent scams. The gaffe is part of a new report saying the Housing Department can’t evaluate its own work on affordable housing despite a spending commitment of more than a billion dollars.
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Millions of dollars spent to hold back the San Francisco Peaks after two years of post-wildfire flooding
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The newst resorts in the Valley tend to focus less on things like horseback riding in the desert or even basking in the sun, but rather on entertainment and the kinds of experiences you might be able to find in other cities.
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Kratom is supposed to be a natural remedy that comes from the leaf of a plant native to Southeast Asia. A new investigation found much of what is being sold in Arizona smoke shops as kratom is actually a synthetic version that is much stronger than state regulations allow.
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Americans 60 and older are facing an uncertain future, with 80% of this population having too few resources to pay for long-term care or even basic things like food to live independently.
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A widespread Verizon outage left customers across the country without service. DownDetector reported other networks also experienced issues.