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Artists Spread Awareness from Food ‘Nexus’ at SDSU Gallery Show
CALEXICO — Some 77 percent of adults in Imperial County are considered either overweight or obese, a global epidemic threatening the health and wellness of residents, especially those who suffer from a lack of access to healthier foods. To bring awareness to issues like food access, food insecurity and obesity in a wholly new way, art and culture is moving the message.
FOOTBALL: Tigers Bully Scots with Big First Half
IMPERIAL — A two-division difference in competition level certainly shined through on Friday, Aug. 30, when the Imperial High School football team scored a 32-7 nonleague victory over Vincent Memorial Catholic High at Shimamoto-Simpson Stadium here. The Tigers (2-0 overall) are firmly slotted in CIF-San Diego Section Division III...
Arizona may receive new national monument
The area surrounding the Gila River, the second-longest river in Arizona, is rich in history, with an abundance of people, wildlife, and national treasures. Archeologists, locals, and biologists are trying to preserve these aspects by making this expanse of the Sonoran desert, only 45 minutes southwest of the Phoenix Valley, a National Monument.
Arizona community colleges, companies train advanced manufacturing workers through ReadyTechGo
A partnership between the state, community colleges and advanced manufacturers is helping to develop a new generation of workers. The program called ReadyTechGo includes four community colleges across Arizona and several companies that make things like semiconductors, batteries and commercial metals. Carlos Contreras, cabinet executive officer at the Arizona Office...
Arizona Veterans’ Services leader won't be nominated for Senate confirmation
(The Center Square) — Arizona Department of Veterans Services’ Executive Deputy Director Dana Allmond will not be submitted to the state Senate Committee on Director Nominations as part of a legal agreement with the Arizona State Senate. In an email obtained by The Center Square on Friday, Allmond wrote to agency employees that she will remain as a deputy director but that John Scott will instead go up for a formal nomination. ...
Gallego unveils fentanyl response plan ahead of Arizona Senate election
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is set to introduce a slate of bills pressing the federal government to implement a comprehensive response to the fentanyl crisis at the southern border, the Washington Examiner has learned. Gallego filed three bills during a pro forma session in the House on Friday that would require different government […]
Americans to get one-term payment from $1.1m wages settlement – no action is needed to get the cash
A SOFTWARE company agreed to pay current and former employees $1.1 million to resolve a class action lawsuit. Customer service representatives who worked for [24]7.ai may be entitled to a portion of the settlement after the company allegedly failed to fairly compensate employees. According to the wage-and-hour class action lawsuit,...
SpaceX Launches Back-to-Back Starlink Missions from California, Florida
Two Falcon 9 rockets — one in California and one in Florida — launched and landed successfully early Saturday morning, hours after SpaceX received permission to return to flight days following a mishap. At 1:48 a.m, a Falcon rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex-4 on south Vandenberg...
‘It’s absolutely asinine’: This Arizona man’s HOA fined him for giving away water bottles out of a cooler in his driveway — a service his neighbors think is ‘fantastic’
While we adhere to strict editorial guidelines, partners on this page also provide us earnings. At the peak of the pandemic in 2020, David Martin decided to hand out free water. The Goodyear, Arizona, resident placed a cooler filled with water bottles on his driveway; next to that, he erected...
City leaders in AZ and U.S. ask FEMA to fund relief from extreme heat and wildlife smoke
Local leaders from two dozen U.S. cities are renewing calls on the federal government to rethink how FEMA deals with heat and smoke. In a recent letter to the agency, mayors — including those in Tucson, Oro Valley, Mesa, Tempe and Flagstaff — say the agency’s current definition of natural disaster fails to take into account all environmental emergencies.
AZ Briefing: Court ruling will suppress Native voting, leaders say; Labor Day weekend fun and road conditions; How ASU can beat Wyoming
Good morning, Arizona. Here's what our reporters are working on and what you should know before you start your day. Voter registration rules already put obstacles in front of Native voters, but the registration requirements will make it worse, advocates say. More about the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a law that requires...
Voters will decide minimum wage ballot measures in several states
Grace McGovern, a 24-year-old bartender and server at a downtown Boston brewery, recalls one recent customer vividly. He was very rude. It was a slow night, and she only had one table, a large group led by a man who “kept touching my lower back and my leg and making jokes,” she told Stateline. It […]
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