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Census shows Arizona home vacancies rose in 2010
New U.S. Census Bureau figures showing how home and apartment vacancies have soared in the state aren't news for the residents of a block-long stretch of West Brown Street in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale.
Small named Arizona News Service editor
Jim Small, editor of the Yellow Sheet Report, has been named Arizona News Service editor. In his new position, Small will be responsible for overall editorial content of Arizona Capitol Times, azcapitoltimes.com, Yellow Sheet Report and Arizona Legislative Report.
Census shows home vacancies soaring in 2010
Arizona added more than 655,000 new housing units between 2000 and 2010, but U.S. Census Bureau figures made public on Thursday show a lot of them remain vacant.
Obama talks immigration at Hispanic prayer event
President Barack Obama says those opposing a pathway to citizenship for the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. shouldn't have amnesia about how the country began. He says America is a nation of immigrants.
Former ASU pollster Bruce Merrill to do new polls
The former director of the Arizona State University Survey Research Center and the Cronkite/Eight Poll is again doing statewide polls.
Pivotal witness against ethnic studies program files suit against TUSD, teachers
A former teacher considered to be a pivotal witness against the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program alleges in a lawsuit filed May 9 the district and his former colleagues defamed him.
Arpaio’s critics call for resignation, indictment; Arpaio scoffs
Critics of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff on Wednesday called for his resignation and for the federal government to indict him and take control of his office amid allegations of corruption, racial profiling, and misspending.
Horne to Congress: lack of federal presence at border means increased criminal activity
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne plans to testify in Washington on Wednesday during a congressional hearing on border security.
Surveyed Arizonans split on Brewer’s performance
A new survey finds Arizonans all over the board in rating Gov. Jan Brewer's performance in office.
AZ Republicans scoff at Obama’s border speech
Arizona Republicans scoffed at remarks made by President Barack Obama in Texas on Tuesday calling for comprehensive immigration reform.
Federal plan to close land won’t end uranium mining near Grand Canyon
Deep within the canyon, a few miles removed from the mule trains of the popular Bright Angel Trail, Horn Creek creates a ribbon of green vegetation here before plunging toward the Colorado River.
But the handful of people allowed to camp in this splendid isolation receive a warning with their permits: Don’t drink the water when Horn Creek is flowing. It’s radioactive.
High-tech health care hotspot: The men behind Phoenix supercomputer say it will bring a new era of medicine
As Phoenix awaits the arrival of the world’s fastest supercomputer dedicated to health information, the time gap in translating new discoveries in medicine into new treatments continues to grow.
