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Surprise graduate’s essay is best in state
Recent Valley Vista High School graduate Ava Stevenson placed first in Arizona in the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Foundation’s Spring 2024 National InvestWrite competition. During her senior year, Stevenson took part in the Stock Market Game, a SIFMA Foundation financial education program where students invest a hypothetical...
Why do Rachel Mitchell and Tamika Wooten want to be Maricopa County attorney?
ARIZONA ELECTION 2024All the races| President | US Senate | US House | State issues| State House | State Senate | Maricopa County | Pinal County | City| Schools| Justice | How to vote| Incumbent Rachel Mitchell, a Republican, and judge pro tem Tamika Wooten, a Democrat, are running...
Arizona Department of Health receives $3 million grant to study maternal mortality
PHOENIX — The Arizona Department of Health has been granted $3 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of a plan to reduce maternal mortality for the next five years. The ADHS will receive $570,000 per year, an increase from the previous grant award of...
Grand jury information exposed by defense attorney in Arizona fake electors case
A day after prosecutors expressed concern in a Maricopa County courtroom that grand jury information in Arizona's fake electors case might be made public, they confirmed their fears when they told the judge overseeing the case that an attorney representing defendant Christina Bobb had publicly filed a court document that included transcripts of grand jury proceedings and grand juror names. Before breaking for lunch on Tuesday, Nick Klingerman, the head of the criminal division of the Arizona...
First Washington Realty Sells Casas Adobes Plaza Shopping Center in Tucson, Arizona for $51 Million
Tucson, Ariz. — First Washington Realty has sold Casas Adobes Plaza, a shopping center located in Tucson, for $51 million. Originally built in 1953 and remodeled in 2014, the property totals 92,300 square feet situated on 9.5 acres. Tenants at the property, which was 97 percent occupied at the time of sale, include Whole Foods Market, Starbucks Coffee, Pure Barre, Orangetheory Fitness and Chico’s. Patrick Dempsey and Geoff Tranchina of JLL Capital Markets arranged the transaction. Greg Brown and Jason Carlos of JLL secured acquisition financing through a correspondent life insurance company on behalf of the undisclosed buyer. Quin Madden of JLL assisted with the sale and financing.
What Texas can learn from crisis mental health care in Arizona
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. After a call for police assistance with a mentally ill man at a Tucson gas station turned deadly, resulting in the deaths of the responding sheriff’s deputy, the man, and a cab driver who stopped to assist, local leaders began work in 2005 on a better way to respond to people in crisis.
Nonprofit says Arizona faces shortage of behavioral specialists for children
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A provider in Arizona says the state is short on counselors and therapists who help children with behavioral issues, and some professionals say the shortage is hurting families across the country as well. M.I.K.I.D is a nonprofit based in Phoenix that provides services to families across...
Gas prices are down ahead of Labor Day travel
If you're driving to your destination on Labor Day, gas prices are 90 cents cheaper than this time last year. The price of a gallon of gas in Arizona is $3.45 a gallon. It's a penny more in Maricopa County. GasBuddy on Thursday morning revealed at least one station, an ARCO in west Phoenix, where gas was below $3. If you're heading north to escape the heat, gas prices in Flagstaff are $3.57 a gallon. Experts say lower demand and a quiet hurricane season are keeping oil prices down.
Arizona offering rebates for residents to improve, upgrade AC units
PHOENIX — Low-income residents in Arizona can receive a rebate for upgrading their air conditioning unit thanks to a new statewide program. The Arizona Governor’s Office of Resiliency announced Thursday it was launching the first phase of the Efficiency Arizona program, which aims to help reduce utility bills and promote clean energy.
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