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US to award Amkor up to $400 million for chip packaging plant
(Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it plans to award Amkor Technology up to $400 million in government grants to help fund the company's planned $2 billion advanced semiconductor packaging facility in Arizona.
Kiwanis Major Projects Committee grants $200,000 to two local organizations
The Kiwanis Major Projects Committee (the Committee), a project-based committee formed by the Kiwanis Club of Carefree, is pleased to announce the awarding of two grants totaling $200,000 to the Desert Hills Community School of Music and the Holland Community Center. “After receiving so many deserving applications, we were proud...
Phoenix Children's Hospital opens new Arrowhead Campus in Glendale
Glendale mayor Jerry Weiers speaks at the ribbon cutting for the newly constructed Phoenix Children's Hospital Arrowhead campus on July 25, 2024. Community, local and state leaders gathered to cut the ribbon at the newly completed Phoenix Children’s Hospital Arrowhead Campus Thursday. It's the second pediatric hospital in the Valley.
Labor group sues Glendale over rejected ballot measure to raise hotel worker's wages
The labor group backing a proposed measure to raise the minimum wage for hospitality workers in Glendale is suing the city for denying the initiative’s placement on the Nov. 5 ballot. Worker Power, a political action committee that wanted, among other things, to give local hotel and event center employees a $20-an-hour minimum...
'Just keep kicking': Kris Vera-Phillips on Olympics lessons, son's swim meet
Opening ceremonies for the 2024 Olympics will take place today — and for weeks the world will watch fantastic athletes compete hard for gold medals. For Kris Vera-Phillips, it's a time to pause and consider her young son's experience in the swimming pool. Kris Vera-Phillips is a Ph.D. candidate...
Local doctor Prakshep Bhatt wins Best Screenplay Award at 2024 Chandler International Film Festival
A local doctor, Dr.Prakshep Bhatt, won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2024 Chandler International Film Festival. The post Local doctor Prakshep Bhatt wins Best Screenplay Award at 2024 Chandler International Film Festival appeared first on KYMA.
The First Public Teacher in Arizona Only Lasted 6 months!
The school year is beginning in Arizona. As you pick up the annual list of school supplies, consider for a moment what school might have been like when Arizona wasn't even part of the United States. Funding issues and other challenges impact our education system to this day, and it...
Q&A: What’s Special about Rural Educators?
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Kimley-Horn opens new location at Union office development in Mesa
Full-service commercial real estate firm Lincoln Property Company (Lincoln) has signed Kimley-Horn, one of the nation’s premier planning and design consultants, to a 34,771-square-foot, long-term lease at Union Building One. Building One is the first building completed within the 1.35 million-square-foot, Class A Union office project being developed by Lincoln and Harvard Investments in the Arizona Riverview District in Mesa, Arizona.
EIU Tennis Teams Earn ITA Academic Honors
Tweet #WinTheMoment TEMPE, Ariz. – Eastern Illinois men's and women's tennis both earned ITA All-Academic Team honors for the 2023-24 academic year with six women's team members and six men's team members collecting ITA Scholar Athlete honors. On the women's side the following players were named ITA Scholar Athletes – Addison Brown , Aleyla Wooten , Emma Pilipovic-Kljajic , Jemma Booth , Luisa Renovales Salazar and Michelle Kostadinova . On the men's side the following players were named ITA Scholar Athletes – Tyler Carlin , Pau Riera , Thomas Wallace , William Hays , Jon William Karlstad and Max Pilipovic-Kljajic...
Scadden makes Dean’s List at Arizona State University
Charlie Scadden, a 2023 graduate of the Verona Area High School, was named to the Dean’s List at Arizona State University for the spring 2024 semester. To qualify for this honor, students must maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher on a four-point scale. Scadden is a rising sophomore...
How the Arizona Rattlers can win their first Indoor football championship since 2017
Since capturing the title in their first year playing in the Indoor Football League in 2017, it's been a series of stumbling blocks that have stood in the way of another championship for the Arizona Rattlers. There's been heartbreak and blown chances, turnovers, blown coverages and agony, games that got away at the...
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