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  The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is in the process of testing public water systems for 29 different PFAS in hopes of fulfilling the 2027 EPA deadline, but despite the efforts that have been made to address contamination, the EPA has received criticism.

  A environmental coalition urged the U.S. Forest Service to ban the use of so-called cyanide bombs in national forests, arguing that the traps continue to inhumanely kill endangered animals and humans.

  The Internal Revenue Service defended its decision to tax Arizona’s 2023 Family Tax Rebate, moving to dismiss a lawsuit from the state claiming violations of federal law and state sovereignty.

  With less than two weeks left before Arizonans decide the fate of a ballot measure that seeks to establish abortion access as a fundamental right, health providers urged voters to support it.

  The city of Tucson is seeking input on extending the enforcement period for parking meters starting in early 2025.

  Candidates running for the Pima County Board of Supervisors disagree on whether the county should support efforts to maintain water barrels in the deadly Sonoran Desert.

  As climate change continues to wreak havoc, companies in Arizona are developing technologies intended to pull greenhouse gas from the air.

  Two Arizona residents and wine enthusiasts argued before the Ninth Circuit that Arizona’s complicated wine distribution system discriminates against out-of-state retailers and violates the U.S. Constitution.

  Over the past four years, Arizona has become a poster child for water scarcity in the United States, and while voters know they’re deciding the country’s future, it’s unclear if they know that they’re voting on an existential threat in their own backyards.

  Arizona’s election system has been thrown into turmoil over the past four years by false claims of fraud - and some real instances of mistakes - in running elections. Now, Republican candidates for county recorder are playing up those false claims and errors as they try to get elected.

  “In just two weeks, Arizona is going to send Kamala Harris a message: go back to San Francisco where you belong,” Vance told a crowd of around 400 at the Pima County Fairgrounds, flanked onstage by members of the National Border Patrol Council.

  Recently retired City Manager Mike Ortega proved the trick isn't to shatter the deep state of bureaucrats, it's to lead a staff full of professional civil servants. Show futility no quarter — through leadership and not micromanagement.