A Valley architect bought the 10-foot-tall snake statue from the Fry's Electronics auction. He plans to put it in a new local bar, but first has to figure out how to remove it from the empty store.| KJZZ
A new Arizona law signed by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs Monday is meant to increase the state’s housing supply while conserving groundwater.| KJZZ
Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton says he was illegally denied entry to the Eloy Detention Center on Friday, where a longtime Valley resident and business owner, Kelly Yu, has been held since May.| KJZZ
Efforts are underway to provide permanent housing on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park for employees displaced by the Dragon Bravo Fire.| KJZZ
A major restoration project is set to begin this fall at Petrified Forest National Park — aimed at preserving a landmark of mid-century modern architecture, and the work is backed by federal funding and years of planning.| KJZZ
Grand Canyon National Park’s North Rim community is trying to provide relief to dozens of evacuated park staffers while the White Sage and Dragon Bravo fires burn. Here's what’s next for those looking to help.| KJZZ
New details have been released in a federal case against the owners of Colt Grill, a barbecue chain in northern Arizona.| KJZZ
Federal and local authorities have descended on all Arizona locations of Colt Grill as part of a major investigation into alleged money laundering and labor exploitation.| KJZZ
Fewer than half of Arizona’s third graders are reading at grade level — a sobering trend that education leaders hope to reverse with a new statewide literacy plan.| KJZZ
A $60 million recovery hospital for child and young adult survivors of sex trafficking is set to break ground in Glendale, in what advocates are calling a major step forward in long-term, trauma-informed care.| KJZZ
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is again pressing the federal government to address what she calls a worsening crisis in electric reliability at the San Carlos Irrigation Project, a federally run utility that supplies power to more than 13,000 customers across five Arizona counties.| KJZZ
Phoenix is set to receive nearly $180 million in federal funding to help build a new advanced water purification facility — a project city leaders say is critical to both economic growth and long-term water resilience.| KJZZ
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Phoenix police are delaying the launch date for new rules on when officers can resort to violence or use physical force on suspects until Feb. 18. The policy has been under construction for nearly the entire tenure of the interim police chief who took over the agency in 2022.| KJZZ
Get early results from the Associated Press for Arizona's 13 statewide ballot measures.| KJZZ
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Alisa Reznick is a senior field correspondent covering stories across southern Arizona and the borderlands for the Tucson bureau of KJZZ's Fronteras Desk.| KJZZ
When Donald Trump is again sworn in as president, he gets to choose who will be the next U.S. attorney general. Then a new top law-enforcement officer can decide whether to keep pursuing oversight of Phoenix and its police department based on a blistering civil rights investigation.| KJZZ
Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway says enforcing Proposition 314 would require far more manpower, jail space, training and funding than his 40-officer department has.| KJZZ
The Phoenix Police Department — Arizona’s largest law-enforcement agency — has been understaffed since the Great Recession. Now, by approving Proposition 314, voters have effectively increased officer workload by making them immigration agents, too.| KJZZ
Phoenix has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to provide details on specific incidents referenced in the DOJ’s June 13 report that found the Police Department has a “pattern or practice” of violating constitutional and civil rights.| KJZZ
