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Last nuclear power plant in California to close by 2025
The rooftop panels and churning turbines of booming solar and wind energy are helping make U.S. nuclear power plants, with all the safety fears and rising costs they bring, obsolete, some experts say. So much so that Californiaai??i??s largest utility and environmental groups struck a deal on June 21 to shutter the last facility in the state.
Forum focuses on energy policies in Democratic platform
A forum in Phoenix aimed at gathering grass-roots voices to help shape the Democratic Party platform drew calls on June 17 for a tax on carbon emissions to curb climate change and for an end to the practice of fracking in natural gas production.
Arizona accused of skirting requirement in prison settlement
Attorneys who brought a class-action lawsuit over the quality of health care in Arizona's prisons said Friday that the state is trying to skirt a requirement in a settlement that mental health professionals see inmates who have recently been taken off psychotropic medications.
Arizona law enforcement revising stance on rape kits
Law enforcement agencies across Arizona are sifting through evidence lockers looking for every last untested sexual assault kit under new efforts driven largely by Gov. Doug Ducey.
Maricopa County board adopts budget for fiscal year 2017
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has unanimously adopted a $2.3 billion budget for fiscal year 2017.
Dolphin virus adds to deaths in disruptive Florida lagoon Orlando
Dolphin virus adds to deaths in disruptive Florida lagoon Orlando DeVante Parker Jersey, fl Fla. East Coast has spread into a Florida lagoon where associated with manatees, Brown pelicans and […]
Bail denied for UK man accused of trying to kill Trump
A British man accused of trying to take a police officer's gun and kill Donald Trump during a weekend rally in Las Vegas will not be released on bail.
Prosecutions of job-related ID theft laws expected to resume
The top prosecutor in metro Phoenix said he wants to resume enforcement of two state laws that were used to convict hundreds of immigrant workers on charges that they relied on fraudulent IDs to get jobs.
McCain: Obama ‘directly responsible’ for Orlando shooting
Republican Sen. John McCain said Thursday that President Barack Obama is "directly responsible" for the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, because of the rise of the Islamic State group on the president's watch. But he later issued a statement saying that he "misspoke."
Arizona commission takes steps to improve railroad safety
State regulators say they're taking steps aimed at improving railroad safety.
Judge wants update on Arizona’s supply of execution drugs
A judge presiding over a lawsuit that protests the way Arizona carries out the death penalty has told lawyers to be prepared later this month to reveal the status of the state's supplies of lethal-injection drugs.
ADHS data: Many kindergartners enrolled without measles vaccines didn’t have exemption forms
Arizona Department of Health Services data shows that about three in every 10 kindergartners who enrolled during the most recent school year without measles vaccines didn't have exemption forms.
