2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1227+ words) Workers at the bottom of the pay scale in Arizona are going to get a bump in pay in January. New figures Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that consumer prices rose 0.4% in August. That puts the annual…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (181+ words) The Douglas border crossing reopened to cattle Tuesday after a more than weeklong pause — making it the only point on the U.S.-Mexico border where live cattle imports can cross. Late last month, the Agua Prieta-Douglas border crossing into Arizona…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (164+ words) The state of Sonora’s cattle ranchers’ union says the newly opened crossing point for livestock exported into Arizona has once again temporarily closed. Sonora’s ranchers’ union president, Juan Ochoa Valenzuela, said his organization is working to fix an equipment issue…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (319+ words) Michelin inspectors have come and gone — giving no prized stars for any Arizona restaurants. But a mention in its inaugural Southwest guide is enough for this iconic Indigenous eatery in the Valley. The Fry Bread House in Phoenix has always…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (144+ words) The state of Sonora, south of Arizona, is registering a growing number of New World screwworm cases after the United States reopened the border to cattle in Douglas this week. Sonora has registered nine cases of New World screwworm since…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (485+ words) Officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico line put their new cattle inspection protocols to the test Monday, when nearly 700 animals streamed through the 30-foot border wall into Douglas, Arizona. The cattle were the first to cross the U.S.-Mexico border…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (207+ words) Tens of thousands of Arizonans have lost SNAP benefits in the last year. Now the city of Phoenix is offering financial help to some affected households. Since Republicans in Congress approved new SNAP requirements last summer, nearly half-a-million Arizonans have…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (981+ words) Enrollment in the biggest federally funded food aid program in the U.S. dropped by more than 13% in a 12-month span — a decline far steeper than the government estimated as work requirements and other provisions of President Donald Trump's “big beautiful bill…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (163+ words) All riders in metro Phoenix can now hail Waymo’s new Ojai vehicle. The rollout comes for all passengers in Phoenix as well as Los Angeles and San Francisco, and will enable Waymo to scale its fully-autonomous rollout to dozens of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (249+ words) Construction has begun on the Trump administration’s second border wall project inside Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The border-hugging monument is home to an ancient spring system — and already has one steel wall. The National Park Service closed the road…...