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A person who flew into Phoenix last week brought measles with them.Maricopa County’s health department issued a warning saying people were probably exposed to the highly contagious disease…

Tomorrow is Arizona’s Tax Freedom Day, one of the most depressing ways to look at how much money you’re forking over to the government every year.Tax Freedom Day, developed by the Tax Foundation think tank, illustrates how long it takes Americans to earn enough money to pay a year’s worth…

Hussein Mohamed took a hard road to America. Born into a minority clan in a nation rife with ethnic conflict, the boyish 24-year-old with gangly limbs and intense brown eyes describes fleeing his village in Somalia in 2012 after gunmen threatened to kill him. Mohamed says he was forced to…

They’re called the Dream 9 — young men and women who were brought into the country when they were children but who returned to Mexico, their birthplace, and then attempted to re-enter the United States last summer. They didn’t cross under the cover of darkness. They didn’t hike for days…

Even though throughout the years since I came to the United States 20 years ago I have seen it happening with less frequency, the use by Mexicans of the expression ¿Mande? (Command me) has always struck me. I personally see it as a symbolic legacy of submission probably originating from…

They’re called the Dream 9 — young men and women who were brought into the country when they were children but who returned to Mexico, their birthplace, and then attempted to re-enter the United States last summer. They didn’t cross under the cover of darkness. They didn’t hike for days…

Some bus drivers and curbside “ambassadors” at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport have gone on strike.The workers are employed by a transportation company called Veolia, which is under contract with the city for the airport service. Amalgamated Transit Union officials say the contract dispute revolves around about 10 issues, including health…

Arizona’s newest abortion regulations won’t go into effect while adversaries of the new rules challenge a ruling from a lower court.The regulations, which impose new restrictions on medicated abortions in the state, have been the subject of a court battle just as the rules were set to take effect on…

Pima County has one of the largest collection of missing-persons reports in the nation.Of the Mexican border crossers that die in Arizona each year, mostly due to heat exhaustion and dehydration, most are unidentified. But because heat causes their bodies to dry out and mummify, it makes identifying them by…

A University of Arizona student who’s well-known on that campus for street preaching with a “You Deserve Rape” sign took his act to Tempe.Dean Saxton, who calls himself “Brother Dean,” enjoys telling women that they deserve rape, as you can see in the video below, taken at Arizona State University…

No surprise here: Phoenix isn’t exactly one of the safest cities in Arizona.Read on to find the 10 safest cities in Arizona, where you might die of boredom but probably not as a result of a violent crime:…

Yihyun Jeong and Laura Sposato are students in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Here, they tell the story of how they learned about the hidden community of homeless living beneath Las Vegas and their journey underground. Beneath the sparkling lights of the…

Depending on where you are in your career, this might be good news or bad news: Phoenix is one of the top cities for entry-level jobs.This is according to Indeed, the job-hunting website, which scanned its own listings for this result…

People from the Phoenix chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) are going to try to force a recall of Republican Senator Kimberly Yee.Yee, who’s been one of the biggest opponents of Arizona’s voter-approved medical-marijuana law, is being targeted after blocking funding of a study…