Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez announced Monday that he’s running for Congress. Nez said he will challenge incumbent Eli Crane, who has represented Arizona’s redrawn 2nd Congressional District since last year. The district covers a large portion of northern and eastern Arizona and includes 14 of the 22 federally …
Read More »Arizona farms face water crisis as drought depletes aquifers
A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona’s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock’s family has used groundwater to grow forage crops here for more than six decades. They’re long accustomed to caprices of Mother Nature that can spoil …
Read More »Arizona governor declares protecting groundwater, tackling school voucher costs top priorities for 2024
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vowed to bring accountability to a school voucher program that’s expected to top $900 million this year and update laws that allow for the nearly unfettered use of groundwater in rural areas of the drought-stricken state. The Democratic governor, making her second annual state of …
Read More »Arizona sheriff’s office utilizing new AI program to assist with writing case reports
TUCSON, Ariz. – As artificial intelligence becomes more mainstream, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department is looking at how it can use the emerging technology. At the beginning of the year, deputies began a trial of Axon’s Draft One, which is a program that writes incident reports using AI. A body …
Read More »Suspect arrested, charged in shooting deaths of 2 teens found dead months ago in Arizona wilderness
Authorities in Arizona have arrested and charged a man in the shooting deaths of two teenagers found in a remote area earlier this year. Thomas Brown, 31, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of high school students Evan Clark, 17, and Pandora Kjolsrud, 18, the …
Read More »AZ Senate president urges University of Arizona to join Trump’s new higher-ed reform compact
Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen is urging the University of Arizona to take advantage of an opportunity from PresidentDonald Trump’s administration to be one of nine initial signatories of theCompact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. In a letter obtained byFox News Digital, Petersen encouraged University of Arizona President Suresh …
Read More »Speaker Johnson hit with Democrat-led lawsuit over delayed swearing-in amid House shutdown chaos
The state of Arizona is suing Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., over the delayed swearing-in of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz. “Speaker Mike Johnson is actively stripping the people of Arizona of one of their seats in Congress and disenfranchising the voters of Arizona’s seventh Congressional district in the process,” Arizona Attorney …
Read More »Red state university student caught on video threatening lives of Charlie Kirk supporters: 'Watch your neck'
This story is part of Fox News Digital’s investigative series Campus Radicals. Get the full series here. Another example of Charlie Kirk supporters being harassed surfaced at the University of Arizona this week, where a group of Turning Point USA students were threatened in an incident that was caught on …
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