KJZZ News Archive

The U.S. State Department has restricted government workers from unofficial travel in Mexican border states since 2010 when drug violence in that region reached its peak. Since then violent crime in some cities, like Juárez and Tijuana, has declined.

A border crossing that's seen as part of a template to rescue damaged, rural economies along the Rio Grande has marked its second anniversary. The symbolic importance of the crossing was heralded by visits from cabinet secretaries from the U.S. and Mexico.

Mexico has awarded a contract to a group of Texas companies to build a natural gas pipeline from the energy-rich Permian Basin of west Texas to the border. The line would run through ranch land where many owners vehemently oppose the project. But in Texas, pipeline builders can legally seize private land under the power of eminent domain.

In an effort to attract more binational business, New Mexico will expand an overweight cargo zone at its southern border. Trucks traveling from Mexico can haul in loads that exceed federal weight limits in the U.S.

Environmental groups plan to appeal a federal judge’s decision that would allow a uranium mine south of Grand Canyon National Park to operate.

Arizona Theatre Company's Romeo and Juliet is a treat, but only for those who haven’t already witnessed a previous parade of updated, restructured Shakespeare productions.

This month the Navajo Nation started taxing junk food and soda. No other tribe, and only one city — Berkeley, Calif. — has successfully passed such a law. Navajo leaders are trying to trim obesity rates that are almost three times the national average. But half of the tribe is unemployed and say they can’t afford more expensive food.

Representatives for the dairy industry, environmental groups and state officials came to an agreement on how to revise rules regulating wastewater management and groundwater monitoring.

A debate is brewing over whether facilities that house unaccompanied migrant girls must provide them with access to emergency contraception or abortion. A major Catholic organization refuses to facilitate that access, including in cases of rape.

Warnings of moral decline are nothing new. But recently there has been an emphasis on the attempt to legislate morality.