Chief of Arizona-Mexico commission resigns
The president of the Arizona-Mexico commission has resigned from the unpaid position. The commission is a public-private organization that promotes trade, networking and information-sharing across the border.
Arizona NAFTA backers express concern about Trump trade policies
Free-trade advocates in Arizona are nervously awaiting President-elect Donald Trump’s trade policies.
Legal pot could upend years of drug smuggling in Arizona
If Arizona's ballot measure passes, pot shops would soon arise in a place that has long been a center of drug smuggling. How drug cartels respond to legalization has been a focus of debate in Arizona.
U.S., Mexico sign agreement to help protect Mexican workers here
Labor Day may be a U.S. holiday, but the Justice Department wants to make sure labor rights are protected for everyone working in this country – including noncitizens.
Project captures the views of Arizona-Mexico border residents
On the border, most residents said they do not favor building a new wall.
South of the border, public opinion of U.S. headed north
Make America great again? Mexicans think it is already. Or at least they did in 2014.
Arizona DPS director meets with Mexico counterpart
DPS Director Frank Milstead met with Adolfo Garcia Morales, the secretary of public safety for the state of Sonora earlier this week.
At one border crossing, Mexico requiring U.S. citizens to show passports
At the Puerta Este border crossing, U.S. citizens and other foreigners walking into Mexico must now show their passports.
Facing rising dental costs, seniors head to Mexico
Mark Bolzern traveled 3,700 miles to go to the dentist. The 56-year-old Anchorage, Alaska, native left home this spring, made a pit stop in Las Vegas to pick up a friend, and kept heading south, all the way to Los Algodones, Mexico, a small border town teeming with dental offices.
Trump’s comments reflect his ignorance of Mexico, trade and immigration
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry is proud to have played host earlier this year to events featuring three of the leading Republican presidential contenders: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. I expect we will welcome additional candidates from both parties in the fall.
Conservation groups sue feds over cactus ferruginous pygmy owl
Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday aimed at forcing the federal government to protect Arizona’s diminishing cactus ferruginous pygmy owl population under the Endangered Species Act.
Johnson: Border is tighter, but ‘new threats’ to homeland security loom
The number of immigrants in the U.S. illegally has stopped growing for the first time since the 1980s, another sign of the success of border-security efforts, the head of Homeland Security said Oct. 9.