Gov. Doug Ducey declared a statewide health emergency Monday in light of a report from the Arizona Department of Health Services that stated opioid overdoses now kill an average of two Arizonans a day.

The state’s political world lost a former governor and a host of others in 2016 who had served the state as lawmakers, an expert on polling, and agency and industry leaders.

Gov. Doug Ducey says Arizona is remembering "19 brave men" on the second anniversary of the deaths of firefighters who perished during a wildfire in Yavapai County.

A Border Patrol official who was removed from his position in June is accusing the agency of covering up "highly suspect" deaths in clashes along the southern border.

Yarnell's water system is getting a $225,000 donation of pipe for restoration and repair work in the wake of the wildfire that devastated the Yavapai County community last summer.

CPS workers close out thousands of cases before they are investigated

Some of the firefighters killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire were only seasonal Prescott city employees so their families don't qualify for full survivors' benefits, but a legislative leader wants to change that.

PRESCOTT VALLEY ai??i?? Firefighters William Benitez and Lou Larosa were fresh out of the New York City Fire Department when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people, including hundreds of first responders.

YARNELL ai??i?? Juliann Ashcraft had just put the kids down for a nap when her cellphone buzzed. It was a text from Andrew, her husband of seven years and, still, her best friend. "This is my lunch spot," he wrote beneath a photo of hard-hatted firefighters sitting on boulders, watching smoke rise on the horizon. "too bad lunch was an MRE," the text concluded. It was 2:16 p.m. on June 30.

PRESCOTT ai??i?? Eric Marsh built the Granite Mountain Hotshots from nothing ai??i?? and died trying to protect the crew that friends say constituted his life's work.