Associated Press
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The U.S. Senate has added language to the major tax and budget policy bill that would restart and expand a compensation program for victims of nuclear radiation.
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Attempts to regulate groundwater in rural Arizona have stalled in the Legislature and Gov. Katie Hobbs' office says negotiators haven't met since early April.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Apache Stronghold to halt a massive copper mining project at Oak Flat in central Arizona.
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Reproductive rights advocates are suing Arizona to unravel several laws regulating abortion access in the state.
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A grand jury has indicted 20 people, a mental health business and a church in a widespread sober living home scheme that targeted Native Americans and defrauded Arizona’s Medicaid program out of $2.8 billion.
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President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency.
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state.
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The Trump administration plans to reissue an environmental impact statement that would permit the government to exchange land with Resolution Copper at Oak Flat in the Tonto National Forest.
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Snowpack was nearly nonexistent in parts of Arizona and across the U.S. this winter, and vegetation remains tinder dry — all ingredients for elevated wildfire risks.
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The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states including Arizona to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country.