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The state of Southern Arizona defense contractors
Last October, Arizona Senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema announced that the Department of Defense had selected Arizona to pilot a “defense innovation hub” called the Southwest Mission Acceleration Center, or MAC. It would be one of five such centers in the country designed to fast-track collaborations between the DoD and entrepreneurs in the tech defense industry.
Arizona's former top cop sued for defamation by man who was cleared in Freeway Shooter investigation
PHOENIX — Arizona's former top cop is being sued by the man his investigators once pegged as the prime suspect in a shooting spree that terrorized the Valley. Leslie Merritt Jr., who was cleared of all charges in the 2015 I-10 Freeway Shooter investigation, filed the defamation lawsuit this week.
US agency to fight invasive bass threatening humpback chub, other protected fish in Grand Canyon
PAGE, Ariz. — The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has wrapped up its environmental review of a plan to help the humpback chub and other protected fish in northern Arizona, allowing the agency to release cold water from the Glen Canyon Dam to combat a warm water-loving invasive bass species that threatens the native population, it said Wednesday.
Arizona man arrested amid search for his missing wife
An Arizona man was arrested for aggravated assault amid a search for his wife who he reported missing after she never returned home from a run. New evidence has led police to believe that this is now an investigation of homicide, according to Arizona authorities.
Ballot measure aims to raise the minimum wage in Arizona to $18 an hour
The group behind a ballot measure that aims to ask Arizonans in November to raise the minimum wage turned in signatures Wednesday in the hopes of getting on the ballot. The political committee Raise the Wage AZ has been gathering signatures for a ballot measure called the “One Fair Wage Act” since November 2022. The […] The post Ballot measure aims to raise the minimum wage in Arizona to $18 an hour appeared first on Arizona Mirror.
6 Arizona cities landed on a list of the highest fatal DUI crashes
A report released by a law firm found that six Arizona cities were among the top 75 U.S. cities when it came to the most fatal drunk-driving crashes per capita between 2018 and 2022. The report, put out by the Philadelphia law firm van der Veen, Hartshorn, Levin and Lindheim, analyzed the top...
What the Crown Act means for people of color | National Crown Day
PHOENIX - July 3 is National Crown Day – a day commemorating the signing of the first Crown Act legislation in the country. It's designed to protect Black children and adults who wear their natural hair without fear of discrimination at work or school. The legislation was adopted in...
Arizona wildlife officers rescue owlets that fell 40 feet from nest
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona wildlife officers often respond to unexpected calls, including saving owlets that fell from their nest!. Roughly three weeks ago, Officers Kalyn Miller and Tylor McGaughey with the Arizona Game and Fish Department received a call about owlets that needed to be rescued. The four long-eared...
Arizona workers one step closer to extreme heat protections with proposed Biden rules
Heat waves in Arizona have become increasingly frequent, extreme and lethal in recent years due to the warming influences of human-caused climate change and the urban heat island effect of development. Yet even as regional research, awareness and mitigation initiatives ramp up, efforts to enact statewide heat protections for workers...
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